Jack Harrington

Jack Harrington is a Research Associate of the Oecumene Project at the Open University. He is currently preparing a series of comparative articles on orientalism, citizenship and governance in the British and French empires. He has published articles on the intellectual history of empire, settler colonialism, orientalism and historiography.

Between colonizer and colonized: the political subjectivity of the settler

'Settler colonialism' has greatly influenced the way we think about colonialism and orientalism. But analysis of the writings of British settlers in the United States reveals that the political subjectivity of the settler is distinct from that of the colonizer (Video, 20 mins)

By Jack Harrington

/ 10 May 2013