« Comparing settler economies: Gary B. Magee, Lorraine Greyling, Grietjie Verhoef, ‘South Africa in the Australian mirror: per capita real GDP in the Cape Colony, Natal, Victoria, and New South Wales, 1861–1909’, The Economic History Review, 2016
On the Civil War and the ‘settler revolution’: Kevin M. Gannon, ‘The Civil War as a Settler-Colonial Revolution’, Age of Revolutions, 18/01/16 »

On the ‘globalization of the settler-colonial ethos’: Ghassan Hage, ‘État de siège: A dying domesticating colonialism?’, American Ethnologist, 2016

25Jan16

Abstract: The sentiment of being “surrounded by barbarians” was once specific to settler-colonial societies. But as the European refugee crisis made headlines in 2015, it became evident that this sentiment is gaining widespread currency in the Western world. Three developments lie behind its extension: first, the resurgence in the militarized Western appropriation of world resources and its colonial imaginary; second, the crisis in the order of the national borders that has regulated the exploitation of land, resources, and labor in the neocolonial era; and third, the ecological crisis, which equally manifests itself as a crisis in the order of the borders of domestication that defined the modern exploitation of nature. Analyzing the intersection of these social processes offers us important insights into some of the dominant dynamics of Western culture today.


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