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Afterword: On Restitution and Dispossession

In: Settler Colonialism and Land Rights in South Africa

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  • Edward Cavanagh

    (University of Ottawa)

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There has been a specifically settler colonial nature to the contests that have shaped the South African past. Consider the struggle against apartheid. What made it so arduous was the reality that sovereignty belonged not to a metropolitan government eager to cut its losses and retreat, but was rather vested in a settler state eager to protect the place of whites at the top of the social pecking order. Settlers cemented themselves at the top of this pecking order according to their own political programme, and the settler state for most of the twentieth century determined whose interests could be prioritised over those of others.

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  • Edward Cavanagh, 2013. "Afterword: On Restitution and Dispossession," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Settler Colonialism and Land Rights in South Africa, pages 101-118, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-30577-0_7
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137305770_7
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