Settler colonialism
 Settler colonialism  (genocide, ethnic cleansing)   | |
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| Settler colonialism is intimately connected with genocide and ethnic cleansing |
Settler colonialism is a logic and structure of displacement by settlers, using colonial rule, over an environment for replacing it and its indigenous peoples with settlements and the society of the settlers.[1]
Settler colonialism is a form of exogenous domination typically organised or supported by an imperial authority, which maintains a connection or control to the territory through the settler's colonialism. Settler colonialism contrasts with exploitation colonialism, where the imperial power conquers territory to exploit the natural resources and gain a source of cheap or free labour. As settler colonialism entails the creation of a new society on the conquered territory, it lasts indefinitely unless decolonisation occurs through departure of the settler population or through reforms to colonial structures, settler-indigenous compacts and reconciliation processes.
Settler colonial studies have often focused on former British colonies in North America, Australia and New Zealand, which are close to the complete, prototypical form of settler colonialism. However, settler colonialism is not restricted to any specific culture and has been practised by non-Europeans. According to certain genocide scholars, including Raphael Lemkin – the individual who coined the term genocide – settler colonialism is intimately connected with genocide.[2]
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:The Bunker State: Why Isolation Will Not Deter Israel's Settler-Colonial Project | blog post | 21 May 2025 | Avigail Abarbanel | "Israeli society’s deeply entrenched bunker mentality stems from an existential insecurity common to all settler colonial projects. This profound insecurity is no accident. Invaders invariably project their own historical actions onto the subjugated population, living in perpetual dread that the violence they inflicted upon indigenous peoples will eventually be visited upon themselves." |
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