settlerist
settlerist adjective: promoting emigration as a settler.
Adjective
settlerist (comparative more settlerist, superlative most settlerist)
- Promoting emigration as a settler.
- 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
- 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
- Asserting the rights and privileges of settlers over others (such as indigenous people).
- 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
Noun
settlerist (plural settlerists)
- One who promotes or believes in settlerism.
- ...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...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
Examples of settlerist in a sentence
- 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...
- 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:
- 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...
Forms of settlerist
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more settlerist |
| superlative | most settlerist |
| Noun | |
| plural | settlerists |
Origin of settlerist
From settler + -ist.
Questions about settlerist
- What does settlerist mean?
- Settlerist means promoting emigration as a settler.
- How do you use settlerist in a sentence?
- The British 'Wests' consists of those societies which mirror the settlerist characteristics of the American West, such as Canada, New Zealand and Australia.
- What part of speech is settlerist?
- Settlerist can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near settlerist in the dictionary
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