Status Updates From Settling for Less: Why Stat...

As living standards in the core rise, luring settlers to "backwater" peripheries like New Guinea or Angola through free land or other incentives becomes an ever more expensive and futile task. Hence, states, past a certain threshold of development, ultimately lose the power to colonize indigenous people.

'The violent process of [American] colonization was not premeditated or coordinated but rather depended crucially on the agency of settlers.'

Exactly the point Emmanuel made in his NLR interventions, and singularly important to understand colonialism as a real, concrete, concatenated process, not the homogenous expression of a transcendent colonial essence.

'What the romanticized narrative omits is that one of the main reasons of Sukarno for holding the Bandung conference was to build support for his claim on Western Papua, which at the time was in Dutch hands.'

blam right out the door