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What if it was post-traumatic settler disorder? A Zoom event with Lorenzo Veracini, University of Sydney, 20/10/26 at 17:00

15Oct26

Abstract: Settlers are weird. They are supposed to be ‘natural men’, and ‘all the world was once America’, but they are. It is unsurprising, and the job of all ideological representations is to turn specific modes of domination into ‘natural’ occurrences. Settlers are inherently unbalanced and easily ‘unsettled’. It is not a coincidence that the ‘settler’ is a settler and not a ‘settled’ …

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    • What if it was post-traumatic settler disorder? A Zoom event with Lorenzo Veracini, University of Sydney, 20/10/26 at 17:00
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