The Settler Colonial Present - Andrew Herscher and Ana María León - Editorial

Editorial

Andrew Herscher and Ana María León

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Settler Colonial City Project, “You are Looking at Unceded Land,” installation at the Chicago Cultural Center, 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial.

The Settler Colonial Present
October 2020










Notes
1

In Patrick Wolfe’s well-known words, “settler colonizers come to stay: invasion is a structure, not an event.” See Wolfe, “Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native,” Journalism of Genocide Research 8, vol. 4 (2006).

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Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang have termed these evasions as “settler moves to innocence” that reconcile settler guilt and complicity. Tuck and Yang, “Decolonization is Not a Metaphor,” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education, Society 1, vol. 1 (2012): 1–40.