Settler occupation is inherently ahistorical and thus never complete

Evidence

I have argued that religious identifications in Northern Ireland formed the modality in which settler-colonial relations are lived. If so, then what appear as primordial identities are in fact politically significant only within a structure that is maintained endogenously and exogenously – within the state and with the support of one or more external states – in order to ensure the supremacy of one segment of the population over another. As the instance of the Republic of Ireland seems to suggest, however, the persistence of settler-colonial mentalities is a function of the structure, not of insuperable primordial attachments. There is nothing “tribal,” except for poets and ideologues, about colonial antagonisms: they persist on and through performatively maintained structures of power and do not survive the withdrawal of the material support that sustains them. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 2139 (#complicates, via linked claim)

The form of colonialism that the Indigenous peoples of North America have experienced was modern from the beginning: the expansion of European corporations, backed by government armies, into foreign areas, with subsequent expropriation of lands and resources. Settler colonialism is a genocidal policy. Native nations and communities, while struggling to maintain fundamental values and collectivity, have from the beginning resisted modern colonialism using both defensive and offensive techniques, including the modern forms of armed resistance of national liberation movements and what now is called terrorism. In every instance they have fought for survival as peoples. The objective of US colonialist authorities was to terminate their existence as peoples—not as random individuals. This is the very definition of modern genocide as contrasted with premodern instances of extreme violence that did not have the goal of extinction. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 17 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Consistent with this narrative, I argue that colonialism, of the settler and nonsettler type, is inherently genocidal, in every shade this term implies, an implication that will require us to expand the meaning of genocide beyond its conventional physical forms. And if this argument is accepted, then one is compelled to conclude that central domain’s academia—not only Orientalism—is also inherently disposed to laying down the discursive and material foundations of colonialist genocidal practice. There is then both a logical and an ontological concomitance between the academia of the central domain and colonialism, on the one hand, and the same concomitance between colonialism and genocide, on the other. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 383 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Settler occupation can never be complete against a place’s deep local historicity — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1850; Overlaid settler landscapes make settlers unable to perceive Indigenous presence. — Kyle Whyte, Settler Colonialism, Ecology, and…, 83; Secularization is impossible inside a biblical-grounded settler project. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 154 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Settler-colonial solidarity persists only through materially maintained structures, not primordial identity #complicates (0.76) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 2139
• Settler colonialism aims to terminate peoples’ existence, not individuals #complicates (0.75) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 17
• Colonialism is genocidal by nature in both settler and nonsettler forms #complicates (0.72) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 383
• Territorial greed explains settler colonialism no better than race does #complicates (0.71)