With no external threat to necessitate maintaining the formalities of international diplomacy, settler discourse seeks to shift Native Affairs out of… - Patrick Wolfe
" "With no external threat to necessitate maintaining the formalities of international diplomacy, settler discourse seeks to shift Native Affairs out of the realm of international relations and reconstitute it internally as a depoliticised branch of the welfare bureaucracy. To this end, post-frontier settler policy typically favours assimilation, a range of strategies intended to separate individual Natives from their collective sovereignties and merge them irrecoverably into the settler mainstream.
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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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