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The wage of settlerness: Zahi Zalloua, ‘Black Reconstruction in Palestine/Israel: On the Wages of Jewishness’, in Yousuf Al-Bulushi, Geo Maher, Damien M. Sojoyner (eds), Reading Black Reconstruction Today, University of California Press, 2026, pp. 119-140 »

Knowledge about settler colonialism: Joshua Myers, ‘Settler Colonial State’, in Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Sean Jacobs (eds), The Palgrave Handbook on Decolonizing International Affairs, Palgrave, 2026, pp. 107-120

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Abstract: When John Henrik Clarke argued that Europe had not only colonized the world, it had colonized information about the world, he had seized upon a reality critical to any real understanding of the function of Western social science. In order for settler colonialism to proceed, it had to interrupt and reimagine knowledge and impose a regime of reality on those it sought to occupy. Therefore, a decolonial practice would need to take seriously other ways of producing and creating knowledge. And a truly decolonial practice would presuppose a liberationist logic in the ways we struggle to live in other ways. Thus, there are lessons in the paths pursued by anti-settler decolonization political projects that have sought to decolonize information about the world. But this is an unfinished project. Settler colonialism continues apace. We will need better models of thinking if we want to live beyond it.


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