Claire's Brother
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Wolfe notes that invasion is a structure, not an event.
He calls settler colonialism inherently eliminatory, but not invariably genocidal, and calls elimination an organizing principle of settler colonial society rather than a one-off occurrence.
Unlike the kind of exploitation colonialism which seeks to extract resources and leave, settlers come to stay, to claim land.
As Wolfe quotes Deborah Bird Rose, to get in the way of settler colonization, all the native has to do is stay at home.
Settlers tell various stories to justify their eliminatory ambitions.
race, religion, ethnicity, civilization status, but it really comes down to territory.
Settlers want to establish lasting, autonomous communities by eliminating the existing indigenous way of life and replacing it with the colonizer's culture, economy, and political order.
Wolf says that settler colonialism destroys to replace.
pointing to the quite visceral example of Israeli settlers uprooting ancient olive trees and replacing them with foreign fruit trees.
Or, as Israel often euphemizes it, making the desert bloom.
Elimination doesn't have to mean the wholesale slaughter of indigenous people, though frontier homicide tends to be a trend.
But elimination seeks to dissolve indigenous people and their way of life through various means.
Expulsion, encouraged population mixing and forced assimilation, enclosure, child abduction, missions and boarding schools, religious conversion, marginalization, labor exploitation, and more, often several at once.
settler colonialism tends to remain deeply embedded in the laws and institutions of the countries founded that way.
But Wolfe points to a curious side effect of settler colonialism, which is the way that settler society subsequently attempts to recuperate indigeneity in order to express its independence from the mother country.
He references Australia's incorporation of indigenous symbolism for one example.
Australia, Canada, the US, New Zealand, South Africa, French Algeria, Rhodesia, Liberia, and Israel are all examples of contemporary or historical settler colonial societies.
But I'm focused on the parallels between just two of them, Liberia and Israel.
In 1818, the American Colonization Society scouted what was then known as the Grain Coast and deemed it a suitable location for their planned African colony, meant to be a home for formerly enslaved people in the U.S.
following emancipation, as well as free Black people that already existed in the territory.
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