Crossing Borders Seminar

Settler Colonialism in Comparative Perspective: Local Relations, Global Processes

This reading seminar will consider the dynamics of settler colonialism as both a historical process operating on a global scale and a social encounter experienced in diverse local contexts. Among the themes to be considered are theories and ideologies of settler colonialism; regimes of legal, territorial and personal dispossession; social and cultural formations in settler societies; decolonization and historical memory. In addition to the collective course readings, students will complete an individual semester-long project to be determined in consultation with the instructors.