Mahmood Mamdani: Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities

A keynote lecture presented on Monday 19 July 2021as part of the Solidarity in Diversity Conference, organised by the African Studies Group and the Melbourne Social Equity Institute.


In this lecture based on his recently published book Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities (HUP, 2020), Professor Mahmood Mamdani argues that the nation-state and the colonial state created each other. In case after case around the globe—from the New World to South Africa, Israel to Germany to Sudan—the colonial state and the nation-state have been mutually constructed through the politicization of a religious or ethnic majority at the expense of an equally manufactured minority.

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