Archive for June, 2010
curiosities
via Historical Indulgences via otisarchives medical museum
Filed under: United States, wacky | Closed
Thought I might give an update on the AWB, since some of my other posts on the topic have got a lot of hits. This from Mail and Guardian: Former Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) general secretary Andre Visagie resigned to start a new organisation to fulfil a promise he made to the late party leader Eugene […]
Filed under: Political developments, Southern Africa | Closed
Wherever colonisation is a fact, the indigenous culture begins to rot and among the ruins something beings to be born which is condemned to exist on the margin allowed it by the European culture. Steve Biko, quoting ?
Filed under: Quote | Closed
The fuel-sucking RV – a direct descendent of the Conestoga wagon and voortrekker kakebeenwa – celebrates a hundred years in 2010. The formula hasn’t changed much: hop in, traverse the ’empty’ wilderness, pull up at that piece of untouched beauty (or national park), inhale ‘unbreathed’ air.
Filed under: media, United States, wacky | Closed
Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson (ed), Natural Experiments of History (Harvard University Press, 2010): Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can’t be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often considered to be the hallmark of the scientific method. This impossibility holds for any science concerned with the past. In addition, many manipulative […]
Filed under: Africa, Australia, Canada, Latin America, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND words and music by Woody Guthrie This land is your land, this land is my land From California, to the New York Island From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters This land was made for you and me As I was walking a ribbon of highway I saw […]
Filed under: Israel/Palestine, media, Quote, wacky | Closed
Lynne Davis (ed.), Alliances: Re/Envisioning Indigenous-non-Indigenous Relationships (University of Toronto Press, 2010) When Indigenous and non-Indigenous activists work together, what are the ends that they seek, and how do they negotiate their relationships while pursuing social change? Alliances brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous leaders, activists, and scholars in order to examine their experiences of alliance-building for […]
Filed under: Scholarship and insights | Closed
Victoria Kuttainen, Unsettling Stories: Settler Postcolonialism and the Short Story Composite (Cambridge Scholars Press, Feb 2010). The first study of the synergies between postcolonialism and the genre of the short story composite, Unsettling Stories considers how the form of the interconnected short story collection is well suited to expressing thematic aspects of postcolonial writing on settler terrain. […]
Filed under: Australia, Canada, postcolonialism, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Aziz Rana, The Two Faces of American Freedom (Harvard University Press, 2010). The Two Faces of American Freedom boldly reinterprets the American political tradition from the colonial period to modern times, placing issues of race relations, immigration, and presidentialism in the context of shifting notions of empire and citizenship. Today, while the U.S. enjoys tremendous […]
Filed under: Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Catriona Elder, ‘Colonialism and Indigenous dispossession in Against the Wind‘, Continuum, Volume 24, Issue 3 June 2010, pages 399 – 409: This article undertakes a revisionist reading of the mini-series Against the Wind (1979) in order to explore the absence of a narrative of Indigenous dispossession. In doing so it seeks to explore the type […]
Filed under: Australia, Scholarship and insights | Closed
settler colonial studies blog 