Critical Forum: On the Uses of Settler Colonial Studies (1): J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, ‘False dilemmas and settler colonial studies: response to Lorenzo Veracini: :Is Settler Colonial Studies Even Useful?”‘, Postcolonial Studies, 2020 | settler colonial studies blog

Critical Forum: On the Uses of Settler Colonial Studies (1): J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, ‘False dilemmas and settler colonial studies: response to Lorenzo Veracini: :Is Settler Colonial Studies Even Useful?”‘, Postcolonial Studies, 2020

05Jan21

Excerpt: In his provocative commentary, Lorenzo Veracini suggests that the relationship between the fields of postcolonial studies and settler colonial studies ‘is predicated on filiation, not opposition’. That may be the case in the Australian context, but my experience in both Aotearoa/New Zealand and the United States tells a different story, one fraught with push-back from postcolonial theorists.2 In my experience, postcolonial studies scholars often valorise the concepts of diaspora and hybridity, while insisting that any assertions
of Indigenous identity (let alone a distinct relationship to land) are essentialist.

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