ABSTRACT
Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Race, and Space brings together 15 essays from across the globe, to capture a moment in settler colonial studies that turns increasingly towards new cultural archives for settler colonial research. Essays on hitherto under-examined materials—including postage stamps, musical scores, urban parks, and psychiatric records—reflect on how cultural texts archive moments of settler self-fashioning. Archiving Settler Colonialism also expands settler colonial studies’ reach as an international academic discipline, bringing together scholarly research about the British breakaway settler colonies with underanalyzed non-white, non-Anglophone settler societies. The essays together illustrate settler colonial cultures as—for all their similarities—ultimately divergent constructions, locally situated and produced of specific power relations within the messy operations of imperial domination.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|2 pages
Spaces, sites and scales
chapter 1|17 pages
More than just symbols
chapter 3|18 pages
The settler urban landscape of a British concession
part II|2 pages
Subordinate settlers
chapter 4|15 pages
Colony at the crossroads
chapter 6|14 pages
“They become some thing like the natives”
part III|2 pages
Variations in genres
chapter 9|21 pages
The visual rhetoric of settler stamps
part IV|2 pages
Settler psyches
chapter 11|15 pages
Queering settler romance
part V|2 pages
Settler languages