Lorenzo Veracini is Associate Professor of History at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne. His [research] (https://swinburne.academia.edu/LorenzoVeracini) focuses on the comparative history of colonial systems and settler colonialism as a mode of domination. He has authored Israel and Settler Society (2006), Settler Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview (2010) and The Settler Colonial Present (2015). He co-edited The Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism (2016), manages the settler-colonial studies [blog] (https://settlercolonialstudies.blog/), and is founding editor of Settler Colonial Studies. His next book, The World Turned Inside Out: Global History of a Political Idea, is forthcoming with Verso.