Telling the end of the settler colonial story

This chapter suggests that an appraisal of a narrative deficit (and, specifically, an exploration of the structural differences separating colonial and settler colonial narrative forms), can contribute to explaining particularly contested traditions of decolonization in settler polities. The first section deals with what is here defined as the settler 'narrative form': a particular way of understanding and organizing historical change in a number of settler colonial political traditions. The second section explores the specific difficulty of telling the end of the settler colonial story.