Patrick Wolfe Quotes

1949–2016 Australia

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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Settler colonizers come to stay: invasion is a structure not an event.

Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native (2006)

The tide of history canonizes the fait accompli, harnessing the diplomatic niceties of the law of nations to the maverick rapine of the squatters’ posse.

Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native (2006)

Rather than something separate from or running counter to the colonial state, the murderous activities of the frontier rabble constitute its principal means of expansion.

Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native (2006)

Settler colonialism is an inclusive, land-centred project that coordinates a comprehensive range of agencies, from the metropolitan centre to the frontier encampment, with a view to eliminating Indigenous societies.

Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native (2006)

Natives have been subjected to a recurrent cycle of inducements – allotment (held out as personal endowment), citizenship, tribal enrolment, termination (held out as individual freedom), and self-determination – each of which has sought to present domination as empowerment and thereby assert Natives’ consent to their own dispossession.

Recuperating binarism: A heretical introduction (2013)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Patrick Wolfe (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.