Settler Colonialism: An Introduction (FireWorks) - Hardcover

Englert, Sai

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745344976 ISBN 13: 9780745344973

Publisher: Pluto Press, 2022

Synopsis

From the Palestinian struggle against Israeli Apartheid, to First Nations' mass campaigns against pipeline construction in North America, Indigenous peoples are at the forefront of some of the crucial struggles of our age. Rich with their distinct histories and cultures, they are connected by the shared enemy they face: settler colonialism.

In this introduction to the subject, Sai Englert highlights the ways in which settler colonialism has and continues to shape our global economic and political order. From the rapacious accumulation of resources, land, and labour, through Indigenous dispossession and genocide, to the development of racism as a form of social control, settler colonialism is deeply connected to many of today's social ills.

To understand settler colonialism as an ongoing process, is therefore also to start engaging with contemporary social movements and solidarity campaigns differently. It is to start seeing how distinct struggles for justice and liberation are intertwined.

About this title

About the Author

Sai Englert is a lecturer at Leiden University, in the Netherlands. He works on settler colonialism, Zionism, labour movements, and antisemitism. He is a member of the editorial boards of Notes from Below and Historical Materialism.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0745344976
• ISBN 13: 9780745344973
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304