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« Camping settlers: Hope Rumford-Rodgers, Audrey R. Giles, Willow Scobie, ‘Christian summer camps for Indigenous youth in Canada: a settler colonial analysis’, Leisure, 2022
Settler colonialism’s ‘right’ relations: Marianne O. Nielsen, Barbara M. Heather, Finding Right Relations: Quakers, Native Americans, and Settler Colonialism, University of Arizona Press, 2022 »

A settlers’ convoy! Peter McLaren, ‘Some thoughts on Canada’s “Freedom Convoy” and the settler colonial state’, Education Philosophy and Theory, 2022

03Apr22

Excerpt: But it is difficult to find common ground with their concept of freedom, which I wish to emphasize is historically linked to settler colonialism, that is, a form of colonialism grounded in exogenous domination, a form of colonialism that seeks to displace the original population of the colonized territory with new groups of settlers who typically justify such colonization through an identification with imperial authority.

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  • Settler colonialism is a global and transnational phenomenon, and as much a thing of the past as a thing of the present. Settlers 'come to stay': they are founders of political orders who carry with them a distinct sovereign capacity.
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