settlerist

comparative more settlerist · superlative most settlerist

1. Characteristic of or pertaining to settlerism.
   1. Promoting emigration as a settler.

      Settlerist principles meant the Australian colonies believed Britain had an obligation to buy colonial wine.

      2012, Julie McIntyre, First Vintage: Wine in colonial New South Wales, →ISBN

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      Souther California was 'perfect bliss on earth', an 'Earthly Eden unsurpassed', 'A Southern California Paradise'. Another old settlerist nerve struck by California boosters was the availability of a life as well as a living, leisure as well as wealth.

      2011, James Belich, Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld, →ISBN

      The British 'Wests' consists of those societies which mirror the settlerist characteristics of the American West, such as Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

      2013 May, Jeffry Babb, “Explaining the success of the 'Anglo-world' [Book Review]”, in Institute of Public Affairs Review: A Quarterly Review of Politics and Public Affairs, volume 65, number 1

   2. Asserting the rights and privileges of settlers over others (such as indigenous people).

      Further studies might pursue specifically settlerist forms of phobic construction within settler societies like Canada and the United States.

      2016, Hisham Ramadan, Jeff Shantz, Manufacturing Phobias, →ISBN

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      So this period saw a gradual polarisation with the settlerist position consolidating itself against the liberal interventionist camp and the African majority.

      2002, Media Professionalism and Ethics in Zimbabwe

      In d'Allemagne's vitriolic prose, Québec bears an incredible resemblance to Kenya, Rhodesia, and South Africa under white 'settlerist plunder and dispossession.

      2012, Pius Adesanmi, You're Not a Country, Africa, →ISBN

      In modern times, our colonial present burst forth in Palestine in the early twentieth century as an evolving settlerist project led by the Zionist movement which had to interlace its statist aspirations, first with Ottoman imperialism and then with the British, eventually supplanting them with a specific variety of internal settler colonialism.

      2016, Marcelo Svirsky, Arab-Jewish Activism in Israel-Palestine, →ISBN

plural settlerists

1. One who promotes or believes in settlerism.

   Barghouti's support of those 'principled anti-colonial Jewish Israelis' as he put it, need to be read as an open invitation for settlerists to put behind their commitment to settlerism.

   2014, Marcelo Svirsky, “The collaborative struggle and the permeability of settler colonialism”, in Settler Colonial Studies, volume 4, number 4

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   ...this study demonstrates no only that relations of western domination against African militancy shape the activities and goals of otherwise unique liberal agencies, but also that the programs actually benefit western domination while retarding African liberation more effectively than those of the settlerists or the right-wing in general.

   1987, Dissertation Abstracts International: The humanities and social sciences, page 461

   Nor was the rivalry and the differences between the various European powers, and between British imperialists and the Boer settlerists respecting colonial strategies, interest served, and goals aimed at to be minimized.

   2007, Femi James Kolapo, Kwabena O. Akurang-Parry, African Agency and European Colonialism, →ISBN