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Ancient settlers: Tesse D. Stek, ‘Settler Colonialism and Colonization in the Ancient World: Necessary Comparisons’, KNIR Dialogues Online, 1, 2025

11Oct25

Excerpt: Can the scholarly debate on ancient colonization benefit from a specifically settler-colonial perspective? And could settler colonial studies, even though developed for the early modern and modern world, also gain insights from the ancient classical world? The essays in this volume explore the value of examining settler colonialism as a structural phenomenon and, together, make a compelling case for adopting a long-term perspective to better understand its dynamics. While I fully share this approach— unsurprisingly, as a co-founder of the broader research project SECOPS, from which this book emerged—I would like to use this response to offer some additional reflections on the unique contributions that an ancient historical and archaeological perspective can bring to this discourse.


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