« The other captivity narrative (indigenous women in the house) as a settler story: Victoria Haskins, ‘Domesticating Colonizers: Domesticity, Indigenous Domestic Labor, and the Modern Settler Colonial Nation’, The American Historical Review, 124, 4, 2019, pp. 1290–1301
Responsibility is about crafting a response: Rebekah Garrison, ‘Settler Responsibility: Respatialising Dissent in “America” Beyond Continental Borders’, Shima Journal, 13, 2, 2019, pp. 56-75 »

If settler colonialism is about reproducing a social body in the place of another, the settler polity is an empire of homes: Kathryn Kish Sklar, ‘Reconsidering Domesticity through the Lens of Empire and Settler Society in North America’, The American Historical Review, 124, 4, 2019, pp. 1249–1266

13Oct19

Abstract: Our reconsideration of domesticity comes at a time when empire and colonial and postcolonial categories of analysis are informing many fields of historical study. This essay traces the historiographic origins of the intersection of domesticity and empire, focusing on domesticity’s usefulness as a window on cross-cultural intimacy and conflict. It also offers an example of how previous treatments of domesticity might be revised by taking empire and settler society into account.


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