A Contemporary Phenomenon

Gabriel Piterberg: Literature of Settler Societies

Ingrid Huygens: Developing a Decolonisation Practice for Settler Colonisers: A Case Study from Aotearoa New Zealand

Bianca Isaki: HB 645, Settler Sexuality, and the Politics of Local Asian Domesticity in Hawai‘i

Jay Hammond: Speaking of Opium: Ownership and (Settler) Colonial Dispossession

Andreas Brieger: Mother and the Other: Situating New Zealand Women’s Captivity Narratives in a Transcolonial Settler Culture of Anxiety

Gairoonisa Paleker: Review Article: Talking in Tongues: Genocide and the San in the South African Imagination

Peter Karsten: Review: Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought

DOCUMENTS:

Daniel Paul: The Hidden History of the Americas: The Destruction and Depopulation of the Indigenous Civilisations of the Americas by European Invaders

Penelope Edmonds: Afterword: On Recognition, Apology and the ‘Hidden History of the Americas’

settler colonial studies is a peer reviewed academic journal, which is published twice a year. We have established it to respond to what we believe is a growing demand for reflection and critical scholarship on settler colonialism as a distinct social and historical formation. We aim to establish settler colonial studies as a distinct field of scholarly research. Scholars and students will find and contribute to historically-oriented research and analyses covering contemporary issues. However, we also aim to present multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research, involving areas like history, law, genocide studies, indigenous, colonial and postcolonial studies, historical geography, anthropology, economics, politics, sociology, international relations, political science, literary criticism, cultural and gender studies and philosophy.

This journal will be considering original feature articles, review articles, and proposals for thematic issues.

Settler colonialism is a global and transnational phenomenon, and as much a thing of the past as a thing of the present. There is no such thing as neo-settler colonialism or post-settler colonialism because settler colonialism is a resilient formation that rarely ends. Not all migrants are settlers: they are founders of political orders who carry with them a distinct sovereign capacity. And settler colonialism is not colonialism: settlers want Indigenous people to vanish (but can make use of their labour before they are made to disappear). Sometimes settler colonial forms operate within colonial ones, sometimes they subvert them, sometimes they replace them. But even if colonialism and settler colonialism interpenetrate and overlap, they remain separate as they co-define each other.