Meaning of settlerist | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Characteristic of or pertaining to settlerism.
2. Promoting emigration as a settler.
3. Asserting the rights and privileges of settlers over others (such as indigenous people).

Examples

“Souther California was 'perfect bliss on earth', an 'Earthly Eden unsurpassed', 'A Southern California Paradise'. Another old settlerist nerve struck by California boosters was the availability of a life as well as a living, leisure as well as wealth.”

“Settlerist principles meant the Australian colonies believed Britain had an obligation to buy colonial wine.”

“The British 'Wests' consists of those societies which mirror the settlerist characteristics of the American West, such as Canada, New Zealand and Australia.”

“So this period saw a gradual polarisation with the settlerist position consolidating itself against the liberal interventionist camp and the African majority.”

“In d'Allemagne's vitriolic prose, Québec bears an incredible resemblance to Kenya, Rhodesia, and South Africa under white 'settlerist plunder and dispossession.”

“In modern times, our colonial present burst forth in Palestine in the early twentieth century as an evolving settlerist project led by the Zionist movement which had to interlace its statist aspirations, first with Ottoman imperialism and then with the British, eventually supplanting them with a specific variety of internal settler colonialism.”

“Further studies might pursue specifically settlerist forms of phobic construction within settler societies like Canada and the United States.”

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