Featuring Dr. Sarah Maddison
Professor in Political Science and Director of the Australian Centre
University of Melbourne

Settler colonialism is a particular form of colonialism in which settlers seek to create new societies that are distinct from Indigenous populations, and in which they establish their own economy and system of governance. Settler colonial societies (like Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States) rely on the ongoing dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their lands, and the denial of Indigenous sovereign authority and political difference.

This presentation outlines the logics and structures of settler colonialism, distinguishing this mode of colonial domination from extractive colonialism. It also draws attention to the Indigenous contestation of settler colonial dominance, which clearly reveals the eliminatory logic of contemporary settler colonialism still at work in the twenty-first century.

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