ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the academic study of stamps. It aims to link the philatelic practices of the Rhodesian regime, and the international reactions to Rhodesian postage stamps, to Rhodesia's wider settler project in its regional and global context, something no other study has set out to do. The chapter discusses how the British responded to the Rhodesian rebel stamps. It analyzes the messages on Rhodesian stamps within the wider context of the UDI rebellion. The chapter argues that students of settler colonialism should also care about the postage stamps created, used, and sold by settlers. It shows that students of settler colonialism should take a closer look at the visual rhetoric of postage stamps as tiny windows into white settler propaganda strategies, politics, and ideologies. The act of issuing stamps is itself a projection of sovereignty. The chapter discusses Rhodesian stamps were part of the regime's larger effort to negotiate and manage this dizzying dislocation.
