Archive for March, 2010
tiki midnight
Brad Parker, “Tiki Midnight” (200?), print on wood block. Find his stuff here. Thanks Rob A. for pointing this one out.
Filed under: art, Hawaii | Closed
Some more details about the round table on settler colonialism at the University of Technology, Sydney (3 May 2010) have come to hand. Have a read through the abstracts: Dr. Lorenzo Veracini Queen Elizabeth II Fellow Institute for Social Research Swinburne University of Technology Decolonising Settler Colonialism This paper contributes to interdisciplinary reflection on decolonisation […]
Filed under: Australia, Scholarship and insights, Seminar | Closed
sydney gazette
Does the mere effecting a settlement by no other right but that of the strongest, and retaining possession owing to the physical weakness of the owners of the soil, for a period of forty years, does that divest them of their natural right to resist and expel the invaders, whenever they were in a situation […]
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the irish famine was genocide?
Here’s an interesting little snippet from international lawyer Francis A. Boyle, found on AboriginalNewsGroup: While there are many legitimate subjects of debate surrounding the Famine, there is no doubt that the British Government committed genocide against the Irish People.
Filed under: Genocide | Closed
Federico Settler, ‘Indigenous Authorities and the post-colonial state: the domestication of indigeneity and African nationalism in South Africa’, Social Dynamics 36, 1, 2010. Abstract: Since the advent of the African Union, confidence in Africa’s renaissance has been high, but a number of state-civil society anxieties continue to challenge stable social relations. One area of anxiety […]
Filed under: Africa, law, postcolonialism, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
The symposium “Gender and Settler Colonialism” was held last friday at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies, North Melbourne. To get an idea of the areas covered, have a look at the program. Keynote: Angela Wanhalla, ‘Intimate Moments, Racial Pasts, Colonial Histories’ Chair: Kat Ellinghaus ‘Intimacy, Space and Types/Representations of Indigenous Women’ Chair: Lynette Russell Penelope […]
Filed under: gender, Scholarship and insights, Seminar | Closed
goldblatt in boksburg
Michael Stevenson is exhibiting David Goldblatt’s awesome selection of apartheid photography at the moment, which you can see on his gallery website. This is my favourite: David Goldblatt, “Saturday morning at the Hypermarket: Miss Lovely Legs Competition”. Silver gelatin print, 1979.
Filed under: art, Southern Africa | Closed
From Douglas H. Johnson, “Mamdani’s ‘Settlers’, ‘Natives’, and the War on Terror”, African Affairs 108, 433 (2009): Mamdani extends his South African paradigm, first proposed in his award-winning Citizen and Subject and further elaborated in When Victims Become Killers, to Sudan, whereby the colonial power is said to have imposed a divide between ‘settlers’ and ‘natives’ […]
Filed under: Africa, Genocide, Political developments, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Provocative scholar of government and race in colonial and postcolonial Africa, Mahmood Mamdani, has recently published a new book, entitled Saviours and Survivors: Darfur, Politics and the War on Terror. Writes Verso Press: Saviours and Survivors is the first account of the Darfur crisis to consider recent events within the broad context of Sudan’s history, […]
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Tim Rowse and Len Smith, “The Limits of ‘Elimination’ in the Politics of Population”, Australian Historical Studies 41, 1 (2010): Abstract Has Australian colonisation tended to ‘eliminate’ the Indigenous presence? The Australian government did not enact the logic of elimination—by ceasing to enumerate people as Indigenous Australians—when the referendum in 1967 showed popular support for […]
Filed under: Australia, Scholarship and insights | Closed
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