Unsettling Settler Societies
Author | : Daiva Stasiulis |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1995-08-11 |
ISBN-10 | : 0803986947 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780803986947 |
Rating | : 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Download or read book Unsettling Settler Societies written by Daiva Stasiulis and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1995-08-11 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `Settler societies' are those in which Europeans have settled and become politically dominant over indigenous people, and where a heterogenous society has developed in class, ethnic and racial terms. They offer a unique prism for understanding the complex relations of gender, race, ethnicity and class in contemporary societies. Unsettling Settler Societies brings together a distinguished cast of contributors to explore these relations in both material and discursive terms. They look at the relation between indigenous and settler//immigrant populations, focusing in particular on women's conditions and politics. The book examines how the process of development of settler societies, and the positions of indigenous and