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Rethinking Settler Colonialism - History and Memory in Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand and South Africa (Hardcover)
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Rethinking Settler Colonialism - History and Memory in Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand and South Africa (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Imperialism
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Rethinking settler colonialism focuses on the long history of
contact between indigenous peoples and the white colonial
communities who settled in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada
and South Africa. It interrogates how histories of colonial
settlement have been mythologised, narrated and embodied in public
culture in the twentieth century (through monuments, exhibitions
and images) and charts some of the vociferous challenges to such
histories that have emerged over recent years. Despite a shared
familiarity with cultural and political institutions, practices and
policies amongst the white settler communities, the distinctiveness
which marked these constituencies as variously, 'Australian',
'South African', 'Canadian' or 'New Zealander', was fundamentally
contingent upon their relationship to and with the various
indigenous communities they encountered. In each of these countries
these communities were displaced, marginalised and sometimes
subjected to attempted genocide through the colonial process.
Recently these groups have renewed their claims for greater
political representation and autonomy. The essays and artwork in
this book insist that an understanding of the political and
cultural institutions and practices which shaped settler-colonial
societies in the past can provide important insights into how this
legacy of unequal rights can be contested in the present. It will
be of interest to those studying the effects of colonial powers on
indigenous populations, and the legacies of imperial rule in
postcolonial societies. -- .
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