Archive for April, 2010
Arion T. Mayes, ‘These Bones are Read: The Science and Politics of Ancient Native America’, The American Indian Quarterly 34, 2 (2010). In lieu of an abstract, here is part of the introduction: Each Native American culture and nation has differing beliefs as to the treatment of human remains. Some are adamantly opposed to any […]
Filed under: law, Political developments, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Christopher Churchill, ‘Camus and the Theatre of Terror: Artaudian Dramaturgy and Settler Society in the Works of Albert Camus’, Modern Intellectual History 7 (2010), pp. 93-121. Abstract This essay examines Albert Camus’s considerable debt to Antonin Artaud. Camus was not only a dramatist, but he also employed dramaturgical techniques in his more famous fiction and […]
Filed under: Africa, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Many non-Indigenous activists recognize that as visitors on this land, we have an obligation to fight colonial institutions and work towards building relationships that contest and seek to transcend colonial power relations. What does it mean to challenge systems of domination and oppression in a neo-colonial context if, as a settler, one’s very presence on […]
Filed under: Canada, Political developments | Closed
Leader of the Afrikaner Weerstandbeweging Eugene Terre’blanche has been murdered. According to the official newsreel of the AWB: It is with shock, dismay, frustration and the greatest of emotional pain that we were informed that our leader, Eugene Terre’Blanche was murdered on his farm Villanna (meaning “Home of Anna”) just outside Ventersdorp called around 17:00 […]
Filed under: Political developments, Southern Africa | Closed
mate helps
‘Mate Helps’, Herald, 1961. This came up in a presentation delivered by Jane Lydon last fortnight at the Gender and Settler Colonialism symposium. It is discussed and contextualised in her recent book, Fantastic Dreaming: The Archaeology of and Aboriginal Mission, Altamira Press, 2009. Many thanks to Jane for letting me share it on the blog.
Filed under: art, Australia, Scholarship and insights | Closed
contested terrain
From Contested Terrain: Aboriginal Land Petitions in New Brunswick. This website features a digital collection of petitions, written between 1786 and 1878, relating to land grants in colonial New Brunswick, in which either Aboriginal people are the petitioners or their land is the subject of attention. Little documentation exists in New Brunswick surrounding the early […]
Filed under: art, Canada, Website | Closed
Some highlights from the awesome blog zunguzungu, which among other things includes snippets of his research on Kenyan history, framed within a transnational perspective. On “Unsettled Labor”: Putting Africans to work — breaking and training them to use the tools of agriculture — is almost literally the same process as domesticating African oxen; note the […]
Filed under: Africa, Empire, Scholarship and insights, United States, Website | Closed
settler colonial studies blog 