Unsettling Settler Societies

Articulations of Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Class

Daiva Stasiulis, Nira Yuval-Davis, Daiva Stasiulis, Nira Yuval-Davis

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 1995
• Print ISBN:
  9780803986947
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781446266229
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

`Settler societies? are those in which Europeans have settled and become politically dominant over indigenous people, and where a heterogenous society has developed in class, ethnic and racial terms. They offer a unique prism for understanding the complex relations of gender, race, ethnicity and class in contemporary societies.

Unsettling Settler Societies brings together a distinguished cast of contributors to explore these relations in both material and discursive terms. They look at the relation between indigenous and settler/immigrant populations, focusing in particular on women?s conditions and politics. The book examines how the process of development of settler societies, and the positions of indigenous and migrant peoples within them, reflects the place of these societies (New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the United States, Mexico, Peru, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Algeria and Israel) within a global economy.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Biographical Notes
• Chapter 1 - Introduction: Beyond Dichotomies – Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Class in Settler Societies
• Chapter 2 - Post-Colonial Politics in Aotearoa/New Zealand
• Chapter 3 - Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Australia
• Chapter 4 - The Fractious Politics of a Settler Society: Canada
• Chapter 5 - Gendering, Racializing and Classifying: Settler Colonization in the United States, 1590–1990
• Chapter 6 - Miscegenation as Nation-Building: Indian and Immigrant Women in Mexico
• Chapter 7 - Five Centuries of Gendered Settler Society: Conquerors, Natives and Immigrants in Peru
• Chapter 8 - Constructing Race, Class, Gender and Ethnicity: State and Opposition Strategies in South Africa
• Chapter 9 - Gender Divisions and the Formation of Ethnicities in Zimbabwe
• Chapter 10 - Between 'Becoming M'tourni' and 'Going Native': Gender and Settler Society in Algeria
• Chapter 11 - Palestine, Israel and the Zionist Settler Project
• Index