Given the centrality of land, territory, and sovereignty to settler colonial formations, it is unsurprising that geographers and other scholars working on such topics are increasingly finding settler colonial studies fruitful in their research agendas. However, work on settler polities in political geography has historically been marked by the present absence of this framework, which has been consequential in terms of circumscribing the kinds of political analysis that geographers can offer. It also limits the nature, depth, and scope of radical critique of violent domination by skirting certain questions about the core drivers of dispossession and responsibility for them. This article examines political geographical engagement (or lack thereof) across each of four themes: population management/governance, territory/sovereignty, consciousness, and narrative, paying particular attention to works which challenge the present absence of settler colonial theory in political geography. We argue that analyzing settler colonial formations as such is essential to conceptualizing their workings and linkages or disjunctures with other forms of empire. Yet this focus also has broader political stakes related to geography's complicity with racialized state power, violence, and empire, as well as and efforts to decolonize the discipline.

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关于定居者殖民主义的政治地理观点

鉴于土地，领土和主权对定居者殖民地制的中心地位，地理学家和从事此类主题研究的其他学者越来越多地发现定居者殖民地研究在其研究议程中富有成果，这一点不足为奇。但是，从历史上看，关于政治地理环境中的定居者政体的工作历来都是缺席的在限制地理学家可以提供的政治分析方面具有重要意义。它通过绕开一些关于剥夺和对其负责的核心驱动因素的某些问题，也限制了对暴力统治的激进批评的性质，深度和范围。本文研究了四个主题（人口管理/治理，领土/主权，意识和叙事）中的每个主题的政治地理参与（或缺乏政治主题），特别关注了挑战政治地理上当前没有定居者殖民理论的作品。我们认为，分析这样的定居者殖民地形态对于概念化他们的工作以及与其他帝国形式的联系或分离至关重要。