The state structure that identifies one group of people that has the legal right to dispossess another group of people that only has the right to be dispossessed.

To what makes a settler or what makes an indigenous person is the legal impositioned by the state that imposes a common identity on people that have in common,

first and foremost, the right to be dispossessed.

Hello and welcome to another episode of Politics Theory, Other.

Israel's assault on Gaza has led to a huge upsurge in discussion of settler colonialism

and the extent to which the term accurately describes the Zionist project in Palestine.

My guest today, Cy Englett, is the author of Settler Colonialism and Introduction,

a new book from Pluto Press that provides an authoritative overview of the history of settler colonialism and introduction, a new book from Pluto Press that provides an authoritative

overview of the history of settler colonialism and resistance to it, from the South African

anti-apartheid struggle to campaigns against pipeline construction in North America.

In the interview, we discussed the history of settler colonialism from the British colonies in North America

to the Portuguese Empire in Brazil

and from apartheid South Africa

to the French settler state in Algeria.

We talked about the economic logics

that made genocidal campaigns against indigenous societies possible

in some contexts but not in others,

and about the surprisingly complex process of racialisation

that enabled the plunder of indigenous resources and labour.

Finally, we discussed why Israel, contrary to the claims of liberal apologists,

belongs firmly in the settler colonial tradition.

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