PUB - Publikationen an der Universität Bielefeld

This article brings studies on elite schools into conversation with studies on colonialism to show how elite status, as constituted through boarding school campuses, is implicated in colonialism. Using document and visual analysis of elite boarding school materials available online, this article reveals the pastoral coloniality of elite boarding school landscapes in Germany (Schule Schloss Salem), the United States (Phillips Academy Andover), and Canada (Appleby College). We argue that the pastoral design of these elite school landscapes, together with the schools' narratives about the character of their campuses, require and mobilize colonial logics of open, endless land for the purpose of constituting elite status as endless opportunity.