Archive for May, 2010
ngapuhi case begins
A while ago I got whisper of an excitingly unique Maori claim launched by the Ngapuhi. Today I learn the case is getting under way today, via NZHerald: The Te Paparahi o te Raki inquiry is unique in that iwi members will argue that their ancestors did not cede sovereignty when the Treaty was signed […]
Filed under: law, New Zealand, Political developments, Sovereignty | Closed
skotnes
Cecil Skotnes (1926-2009), Untitled. 1980. Woodcut. More here and here.
Filed under: art, Southern Africa | Closed
A snippet from John and Jean Comaroff’s — as always, gripping — opening essay of their edited collection, Law and Disorder in the Postcolony (Chicago 2006): …there has certainly been an explosion of law-oriented nongovernmental organizations in the postcolonial world: lawyers for human rights, both within and without frontiers; legal resourcecenters and aid clinics; voluntary […]
Filed under: Africa, law, Political developments, postcolonialism, Quote, Scholarship and insights | Closed
council rock
A block print by Joseph Donnelly, photographed recently by Lisa Ann-Ishihara, via Youngstown News.
Filed under: art, United States | Closed
Please enjoy these mp3 recordings of the papers delivered at the recent round table, ‘Settler Colonialism and the Colour Line’. Individual abstracts can be found here. Gaia Giuliani, Matching Colours Lorenzo Veracini, Decolonising Settler Colonialism Maria Giannacopoulos, Xenos, Nomos, Bia (temporarily unavailable) Kiran Grewal, The Native versus the Alien: Discourses of Belonging and the Reinforcement […]
Filed under: Australia, law, media, Political developments, postcolonialism, public lecture, Scholarship and insights, Sovereignty, Website | Closed
zunguzungu
It took me a long time to realize that the difference between settler colonialism and franchise/metropolitan/regular-old colonialism was the hinge for what I’m trying to do with the relationship between the United States and Kenya in my dissertation. In a very complicated way, of course; the problem with Kenya settlers is that they thought they […]
Filed under: Africa, postcolonialism, United States | Closed
Cultural Studies Review, vol. 15 no. 2 September 2009. Line-up: Editorial—JOHN FROW & KATRINA SCHLUNKE Critical Indigenous Theory —Co-editor AILEEN MORETON-ROBINSON Introduction—AILEEN MORETON-ROBINSON ‘In the City of Blinding Lights’: Indigeneity, Cultural Studies and the Errants of Colonial Nostalgia—JODI A. BYRD ‘There is Nothing that Identifies Me to that Place’: Indigenous Women’s Perceptions of Health Spaces […]
Filed under: Scholarship and insights | Closed
Zeev Sternhell, ”In Defence of Liberal Zionism’ (a review of Piterberg’s Returns of Zionism), New Left Review 62 March 2010. Selections: The aim of The Returns of Zionism is clear, and Piterberg does not hide it: the total de-legitimization of the Jewish nation-state founded in Palestine. A quarter of a century ago, this idea had […]
Filed under: Israel/Palestine, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Maria Giannacopoulos, ‘The Nomos of Apologia’, Griffith Law Review, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2009. Abstract: On 13 February 2008, the newly elected Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, offered an apology to the Stolen Generations of Indigenous peoples – an apology he said he offered ‘without qualification’. His ‘unqualified’ apology, however, was crafted for the […]
Filed under: Australia, law, Political developments, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Corinn Columpar, Unsettling Sights: The Fourth World on Film (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010): Unsettling Sights: The Fourth World on Film examines the politics of representing Aboriginality, in the process bringing frequently marginalized voices and visions, issues and debates into the limelight. Corinn Columpar uses film theory, postcolonial theory, and Indigenous theory to frame her […]
Filed under: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
settler colonial studies blog 