Landing settler colonialism: Robert Nichols, ‘Colonization and the Recoding of Land in Classical Political Economy’, in Michael Goldman, Nancy Lee Peluso, Wendy Wolford (eds), The Social Lives of Land, Oxford University Press, 2024, pp. 23-50 | settler colonial studies blog

Landing settler colonialism: Robert Nichols, ‘Colonization and the Recoding of Land in Classical Political Economy’, in Michael Goldman, Nancy Lee Peluso, Wendy Wolford (eds), The Social Lives of Land, Oxford University Press, 2024, pp. 23-50

25Oct24

Abstract: This chapter focuses on the understanding of settler colonialism. It elaborates on the notions of colonization and recoding of land in classical political economy. Late eighteenth-century Anglophone intellectuals and policy makers could be skeptical about the benefits of land appropriation, while their counterparts four or five decades later were enthusiastically in favor since both groups were operating with distinct notions of land. The chapter examines the debates historicizing the relationship between land, colonization, and political economy at one particularly important historical juncture. Moreover, historicizing the connections between land and settler colonialism allows an understanding of the variegated content of both terms.

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