The Return of the Native: White Supremacy, Indigenous Rights and the Struggle for Britain
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article enquires into the articulation of Britishness, whiteness and indigeneity in post-Second World War British discourses of race, nationality, citizenship, and immigration. Noting how frequently, in contemporary European far right discourse, the “fantasy of a ‘return’ to socially homogeneous societies that existed ‘before’ cultural difference” (Pitcher 2009: 2) is underwritten by (factitious) claims of indigeneity that permit the equation of “labour migration” with “colonization” (Caldwell 2009: 7), I work to eviscerate the indigenism of the anti-immigration British right, which aligns white supremacism with anti-colonial political movements in ways that are or should be profoundly anathematic to the latter, without gutting the project of Indigenous rights altogether. To this end, the article reflects on the use Indigenous cultural workers, such as the Aboriginal activist-artist Burnum Burnum and Maori poet Robert Sullivan, have made of the trope of “reverse colonization,” building on their counterhistorical fictions to expose and unsettle the toxic spatial stories that continue to condition debates about race, national identity, citizenship and immigration in a 21st-century Britain normatively supposed to be post-imperial.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".