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An ongoing debate: Lorenzo Veracini, ‘Is settler colonial studies even useful?’ Postcolonial Studies, 2020

25Dec20

Abstract: This brief article is a response. It engages with recent critiques of settler colonial studies as an intellectual endeavour. Settler colonial studies, a number of scholars have argued, is at best useless, but worse, it may actually be detrimental to Indigenous struggles. What is the use of studying settler colonialism as a specific mode of domination when this knowledge is irrelevant to the struggle against a disempowering politics of forced recognition and for Indigenous resurgence? If this is an indictment, the following notes are meant as a provisional defence.


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