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Settler colonial structures (of feeling, and those over a pedestal): Janne Lahti, ‘Südwester Reiter: Fear, Belonging, and Settler Colonial Violence in Namibia’, Journal of Genocide Research, 2022

02Jun22

Abstract: This article examines the continuities between the Herero and Nama genocide and the history of the Reiterdenkmal statue in Windhoek, Namibia. It interprets the statue as an extension of the lived experience of the genocide and a contested symbol of settler belonging. The Reiterdenkmal reformulated colonial violence as white victimhood and black savagery, and advanced German settler claims over African soil. Violence and the “rider” together remade black African space into white settler space. Yet, this settler belonging was and remains grounded on fears. Uncertainty over belonging and fear of the Natives had driven the killing and exploitation of black Africans in the first place, and settler
identities remain uncertain as the legacies and reckonings of past violence continue unresolved in independent Namibia.


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