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The tent of settler colonial studies – a tent in a field? Antoinette Burton, ‘Beyond the big tent: recontextualizing settler colonial studies’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2024

11Jul24

Abstract: This reflection on the field of Settler Colonial Studies uses the “big tent” metaphor to ask what is seen to be encompassed in the field; who is left out and how attached its practitioners are not just to teleology but to the dialectic logics of colonialism itself. Drawing on Burton’s 30 years of work in the field of colonial and imperial history, it queries some of the premises of settler colonial studies’ remit asks how attention to gender and sexuality impacts the direction of the field and posits the dialectic alongside telos as a site of critical tension for thinking about approaches to subject and method.


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