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Book Review

‘Then what are you doing here?’ political theories of settler colonialism

The World turned upside down, by Lorenzo Veracini, New York, Verso, 2021, 320 pp., $23.96; Neither settler nor native, by Mahmood Mamdani, Boston, Harvard, 2020, 416 pp., $29.95

Published online: 07 Apr 2024
 

Notes

1 Mandel, Sea of Tranquility (Vintage, 2022), 3.

2 Ibid., 14–5.

3 Ibid., 26.

4 Mamdani, Neither Settler Nor Native, 18. Lorenzo Veracini, The Settler Colonial Present (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015).

5 Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, ‘Decolonization is not a Metaphor’, Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education, and Society 1, no. 1 (2012): 1–40.

6 Veracini, World Turned, 2.

7 Dahl, Empire of the People: Settler Colonialism and the Foundations of Modern Democratic Thought (University Press of Kansas, 2018), 89.

8 Ibid., 2, 5.

9 Belich, Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo-World, 1783-1939 (Oxford University Press, 2009).

10 Veracini, World Turned, 74.

11 Ibid., 138.

12 Ibid., 241-242.

13 Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (Harcourt, 1976), 132, 135.

14 Johnson, The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States (Basic, 2020), 120-121.

15 Glen Coulthard, Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (University of Minnesota Press, 2014). Robert Nichols, Theft is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory (Duke University Press, 2019).

16 David Temin, Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Thought (University of Chicago Press, 2023). Vicki Hsueh, ‘Reclaiming Care: Refusal, Nullification, and Decolonial Politics,’ Contemporary Political Theory (2023), Online First.

17 Rafael Vizcaíno, ‘Between the Decolonial and the Postcolonial: An Interview with Mahmood Mamdani,’ Political Theology 22, no. 5 (2021): 363–7.

18 Mamdani, Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities (Harvard University Press, 2020), 3.

19 Patrick Wolfe, ‘Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native’, Journal of Genocide Research 8, no. 4 (2006): 387–409.

20 Ibid., 13.

21 Ibid., 23.

22 Also see Adam Dahl, ‘Beyond the Anglo-World: Settler Colonialism and Democracy in the Americas’, Polity 55, no. 2 (April 2023): 275–301; and Onur Ince, ‘Deprovincializing Racial Capitalism: John Crawfurd and Settler Colonialism in India,’ American Political Science Review 116, no. 1 (2022): 144–60.

23 Ibid., 98.

24 Ibid., 31.

25 Ibid., 18.

26 Ibid., 250.

27 Ibid., 327–55.

28 Ibid., 318.

29 Ibid., 328.

30 Coulthard, Red Skin, White Masks. Audra Simpson, Mohawk Interreptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States (Duke University Press, 2014). Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance (University of Minnesota Press, 2017).

31 Mamdani, Neither Settler Nor Native, 97.

32 Patrick Wolfe, ‘Recuperating Binarism: A Heretical Introduction,’ Settler Colonial Studies 3, no. 3-04 (2013): 257–79.

33 Yann Allard-Tremblay, ‘The Two Row Wampum: Decolonizing and Indigenizing Democratic Autonomy,’ Polity 54, no. 2 (April 2022): 225–49.

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