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Settler colonialism is a specific mode of domination where a community of exogenous settlers permanently displace to a new locale, eliminate or displace indigenous populations and sovereignties, and constitute an autonomous political body.
The outcome of settler colonialism is a sociopolitical body that reproduces in the place of another. As a specific mode of domination, it is especially concerned with space. It is significant that the “inventor” of modern geopolitics, William Gilpin, should have been a committed and prominent settler colonialist of the nineteenth century and that Carl Schmitt should have developed his theory of “large spaces” with reference to US President Monroe’s enunciation of the ultimate incompatibility between colonial and settler colonial forms (see Karnes 2014, 341–343; Legg 2011, esp. chaps. 3 and 6). On the basis of the distinction between “Europe” and “America” and their “essentially...
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Veracini, L. (2021). Settler Colonialism. In: Ness, I., Cope, Z. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29901-9_26
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