« The little house belongs to a settler (and you can visit it): Nancy Reagin, ‘Whose Homestead Is It? Little Houses on the Prairie and the Cultural Politics of White Colonial Settlement in the United States’, in Stijn Reijnders, Emiel Martens, Deborah Castro, Débora Póvoa, Apoorva Nanjangud, Rosa Schiavone (eds), Media, Place and Tourism: Worlds of Imagination, Routledge, 2024, pp. 155-167
Nationalism as obfuscation: Muhannad Ayyash, ‘Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and Nationalism: On Motivations and Violence’, Middle East Critique, 2024 »

The settlers and their isolation (reviewing Lorenzo Veracini, The World Turned Upside Down, and Mahmood Mamdani, Neither Settler Nor Native): Adam Dahl, ‘”Then what are you doing here?” Political theories of settler colonialism’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2024

14Apr24

Excerpt: It is with these three dimensions of this question in mind that I want to frame this review essay. In evoking both the narrative and the normative, both books are deeply contextual and historically sophisticated works written with an eye toward the critical and normative stakes of the present. Furthermore, they reveal not only exciting new avenues for work on histories of settler colonialism, but also show how settler colonialism remains an incisive analytic device for cutting at core questions of political theory revolving around conceptions of revolution, the nation, democracy, territory, and sovereignty. At the same time, in grappling with this question, these works also reveal the limits of a political theory of settler colonialism for future scholarly work to contend with.


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