Is settler colonial studies even useful
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4465245 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L Veracini (0000-0002-3481-8535, Department of Social Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 270-277 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Postcolonial Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-8790 • E-ISSN: 1466-1888 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13688790.2020.1854982 |
| OpenAlex | W3113027074 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This brief article is a response. It engages with recent critiques of settler colonial studies as an intellectual endeavour. Settler colonial studies, a number of scholars have argued, is at best useless, but worse, it may actually be detrimental to Indigenous struggles. What is the use of studying settler colonialism as a specific mode of domination when this knowledge is irrelevant to the struggle against a disempowering politics of forced recognition and for Indigenous resurgence? If this is an indictment, the following notes are meant as a provisional defence
Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |