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Post-cultural hospitality: settler-native-migrant encounters.
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Arena Journal
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March 22, 2007
- Author:
- Smith, Jo
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Contemporary settler states can be characterized as conjunctural formations that attempt to address the demands of the historical legacies of colonization at the same time as dealing with the present-time and future-oriented imperatives of transnational and international global forces. (1) Indigenous collectivities' calls for social justice challenge the legitimacy of settler-state law at the same time as global economic and cultural flows erode the sovereignty of the nation-state. As a recent special issue of Postcolonial Studies entitled 'Unsettled States' makes clear, these competing conditions (of past and future played out in the heady culture of the everyday) invite ...