Politics and history Structure 2 Apr 2021 Previously we’ve looked at the term “structure” as it relates to settler colonialism - following Patrick Wolfe’s call to be attentive to how settlement is a social, political, economic and…
postcolonial theory Settler colonialism 3 Mar 20213 Mar 2021 Not all colonies are created in the same way. Whilst under imperial domination colonies are sustained and exploited to support the metropolitan centre, settler colonialism functions through an invasive structure…
postcolonial theory Post-colonial 10 Oct 201910 Oct 2019 This is the first in a mini-series unpacking the various ways in which we might employ the term “postcolonial”. How the term is written changes its meaning, leading to different…
postcolonial theory… Invasion 9 Sep 2019 Often, exhibitions and displays that attempt to tell the story of colonial contact use words like “encounter”, “exchange” and crucially, “arrival”, to describe the historical moment at which cultures met…