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When invasion is recognized as a structure rather than an event, its history does not stop—or, more to the point, become relatively trivial—when it m… - Patrick Wolfe
" "When invasion is recognized as a structure rather than an event, its history does not stop—or, more to the point, become relatively trivial—when it moves on from the era of frontier homicide. Rather, narrating that history involves charting the continuities, discontinuities, adjustments, and departures whereby a logic that initially informed frontier killing transmutes into different modalities, discourses and institutional formations as it undergirds the historical development and complexification of settler society.
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About Patrick Wolfe
Patrick Wolfe (1949 – 18 February 2016) was an Australian historian and scholar who is often credited with establishing the field of settler colonial studies.
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