Archive for March, 2010
zizek on avatar
Slavoj Zizek, “Return of the Natives”, From New Statesman: Avatar’s fidelity to the old formula of creating a couple, its full trust in fantasy, and its story of a white man marrying the aboriginal princess and becoming king, make it ideologically a rather conservative, old-fashioned film. Its technical brilliance serves to cover up this basic […]
Filed under: media, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Mark Finnane and Fiona Paisley, “Police Violence and the Limits of Law on a Late Colonial Frontier”, Law and History Review 28, 2010. ABSTRACT: The dependence of colonization on police was a core feature both of settler colonies and of colonial dependencies, from the middle of the nineteenth century to the post–World War I decline […]
Filed under: Australia, law, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Lauren Benton and Benjamin Straumann, “Acquiring Empire by Law: From Roman Doctrine to Early Modern Practice”, Law and History Review 28, 2010. ABSTRACT: What role did the Roman legal concept of res nullius (things without owners), or the related concept of terra nullius (land without owners), play in the context of early modern European expansion? […]
Filed under: Empire, law, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Coming up in Melbourne soon is this symposium on gender and settler colonialism. I will certainly attend and hopefully post some reflections about it afterwards. Here is some info: Friday 19 March, 9.45am-5.15pm Institute of Postcolonial Studies (54 Curzon St, Nth Melbourne) Confirmed speakers and commentators include: Ann Curthoys (Sydney), Patricia Grimshaw (Melbourne), Lynette Russell (Monash), […]
Filed under: gender, public lecture, Scholarship and insights, Seminar | Closed
Gordon Bennett (b. 1955), “Self portrait (But I always wanted to be one of the good guys)” (1990), held in a Private collection, Brisbane; Photo by Phillip Andrews; from ABC Radio National
Filed under: art | Closed
half indian / half mexican
James Luna (b. 1950), “Half Indian / Half Mexican” (1991), held at the Denver Art Museum.
Filed under: art | Closed
Part of the global shift towards being a “First” person across the settler world (that perhaps began with the UNPFII notes), Indigenous peoples in Queensland will soon be officially recognised as First Queenslanders. From ABC Online: Queensland Parliament has passed legislation to insert a preamble into the State Constitution. The preamble will recognise the Indigenous […]
Filed under: Australia, Political developments | Closed
Lorenzo Veracini: Rezension zu: Isfahani-Hammond, Alexandra: White Negritude. Race, Writing, and Brazilian Cultural Identity. New York 2008, in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 26.02.2010. : Transference of cultural practices by close contact allows whites to write “black”, a move that, besides the ultimate (albeit one step removed) indigenisation of the Euro-Brazilian, enables another transfer: the disappearance of the black […]
Filed under: Latin America, Scholarship and insights | Closed
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