Lorenzo Veracini is a historian and professor at

Swinburne University of Technology Swinburne University of Technology (often simply called Swinburne) is a public research university based in Melbourne, Australia. It was founded in 1908 as the Eastern Suburbs Technical College by George Swinburne to serve those without acce ...

’s Institute for Social Research. He is the editor in chief of ''Settler Colonial Studies'' and has been a key figure in the development of the field of

settler colonialism Settler colonialism is a structure that perpetuates the elimination of Indigenous people and cultures to replace them with a settler society. Some, but not all, scholars argue that settler colonialism is inherently genocidal. It may be enacted b ...

. His 2010 book ''Settler Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview'' was described as "comprehensive though succinct" and "probably the best justification of the imperative to view settler colonialism as significantly different from traditional or classical colonialism".

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