Settlerism

Quick meaning: Settlerism is a noun meaning An ideology extolling the virtue of bettering oneself by becoming a settler in undeveloped lands.

Meaning

An ideology extolling the virtue of bettering oneself by becoming a settler in undeveloped lands.

More Meanings

1. The process of converting desolate lands into settlements.
2. (colloquial, often derogatory) The replacement of native populations with nonnative populations.
3. (historical) Group identification among settlers (as opposed to indigenous people or imported slaves), coupled with an ideology of freedom and social participation that applies exclusively to members of that group.

Example Sentences

Class contradictions in the U.S., in time, came to be defined largely in the context of race and settlerism.

This informal settlerism echoed some elements of a well-known English folk Utopianism: 'a vision, let us call it "Merrie England", in which squire, parson and people were locked together in an embrace of authority, deference and mutual dependency.'

These public intellectuals sought to reassemble the old commitments to empire, freedom, and permanent peace, but in ways that fundamentally altered if not discarded settlerism. Promoting economic independence and republican freedom no longer provided the rationales for expansion or international power.

Those ideologies of nationalism with which the elites wage war against white settlerism emphasised military battles fought 'against' white settlerism and never 'for' an alternative vision that would displace the hated ideas that hedged around and sustained most areas of the contemporary systems of oppression.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include paracolonialism, colonizationist, colonizationism, citizenist, territorialism, indigenism.

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