Settler mentalities are effects of dominance structures, not fixed identities.

Evidence

In this respect, since the Protestant experience was so different in the south, we can see Northern Ireland as a very clear “laboratory” for the cultural and political formations of the settler colony: the artificiality of the state and of Protestant adherence to and dependence on its institutional forms clarifies the tendencies of settler-colonial entities; the necessary supremacism or racism, even in a racially indistinguishable population; the sectarianization of working-class allegiances; the disproportionately violent response of the state to the demand for rights; and the necessity for the withdrawal of “mother country” support for a peace process to begin – all correlate with similar tendencies in other locations. But the peculiar history of Northern Ireland highlights the extent to which settler mentalities are the effect of a structure of dominance, not an indelible and unchangeable given. Transformation of the structure of domination, whether by internal or external pressures, furnishes space for the transformation of mentalities. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 2040

Categorization

• XREF: Pays off and generalizes the chapter-1 claim that sacralized politics racializes others. Also joins Memmi’s ‘colonial situation manufactures colonialists’ thesis running through the whole MOC. — connects to: Settler-colonial solidarity persists only through materially maintained structures, not primordial identity — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 2139; Racialization mutates with the power interests that institutionalize it, not fixed phenotypes.; Ingroup membership is a shifting, context-dependent subjective construction, not a fixed category. (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Settler-colonial solidarity persists only through materially maintained structures, not primordial identity #corroborates (0.85) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 2139
• Racialization mutates with the power interests that institutionalize it, not fixed phenotypes. #corroborates (0.72)
• Ingroup membership is a shifting, context-dependent subjective construction, not a fixed category. #corroborates (0.72)