Archive for February, 2010
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call for papers: anzlhs law and history conference: owning the past – whose past? whose present?
From their website: The use and study of the past is constantly being refashioned and reinterpreted to construct meaning in the present, imparting understandings of a common but chaotic humanity. Because everyone and no one ‘owns’ history, the ownership of historical events and the right to speak of them remains deeply contested. What are the […]
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The UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues has recently released the “State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples” dossier. A good overview of the contents in context can be found here. Like any UNPFII statement about the plight of Indigenous peoples, there are the same generalising prescriptions about ‘culture’ that will sound warning bells to ‘unaffiliated’ […]
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This smartly designed website is a hub for postcolonial thinkers in Melbourne and the world. It is worth checking out if you haven’t already. Their mission statement: The spectre of colonialism still haunts the world, despite assertions about the end of formal colonial control and the rise of democracy and universal human rights. The aim […]
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Scott Lauria Morgensen, “Settler Homonationalism: Theorising Settler Colonialism within Queer Modernities”, GLQ: A journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 16 (2010): Abstract: Settlement conditions the formation of modern queer subjects and politics in the United States. This essay newly interprets the settler formation of U.S. queer modernities by inspiration of Jasbir Puar’s critique of homonationalism. […]
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Adam J. Barker, “The Contemporary Reality of Canadian Imperialism: Settler Colonialism and the Hybrid Colonial State”, from American Indian Quarterly, Summer 2009. Abstract: My fundamental contention is this: Canadian society remains driven by the logic of imperialism and engages in concerted colonial action against Indigenous peoples whose claims to land and self-determination continue to undermine […]
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FEEGI’s biennial conference (Empire and Identity in the Early Modern World) is now only a couple of weeks away. From their website: The Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction (FEEGI) aims to encourage scholarship and collaboration across the boundaries of national histories and disciplinary frameworks. Members come to FEEGI from a wide range of […]
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The latest edition of Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies includes some pretty interesting reviews. District 9 (the 2009 film that director Neill Blomkamp insisted was not meant to convey a “political” message, but contains all sorts of settler colonial signposting) is given a roundtable review. Also, in the book reviews section, […]
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The Legal History Blog has called our attention to a conference to be held at UC Irvine in April. The program looks great: April 16th Welcome and Introduction: Catherine Fisk (Law, UC Irvine) Session 1: Interactions – Law, Text, History Chair Dirk Hartog (History, Princeton) Speakers: Steven Wilf (Law, Connecticut), “Law/Text/Past”; Norman Spaulding (Law, Stanford), […]
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This is now a year old, but I thought I’d put a link up to it anyway. Settler Colonialism Volume 107, Number 4, Fall 2008 Ilan Pappé Zionism as Colonialism: A Comparative View of Diluted Colonialism in Asia and Africa South Atlantic Quarterly 107(4): 611-633 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00382876-2008-009 J. Kehaulani Kauanui Colonialism in Equality: Hawaiian Sovereignty […]
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