Archive for July, 2010
Darryl Leroux, ‘The Spectacle of Champlain: Commemorating Québec’, borderlands e-journal 9, 1 (2010) This essay examines the process of foundation through which Samuel de Champlain’s public image as the founder of Québec has been instituted both historically and during Québec City’s 400th anniversary commemorations in 2008. Through analyzing the official commemorative event, Rencontres, I demonstrate […]
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Judy Rohrer, ‘Mestiza, Hapa Haole, and Oceanic Borderspaces: Genealogical rearticulations of whiteness in Hawai‘i’, borderlands e-journal 9, 1 (2010) We in the United States are living in a time of heightened racial awareness, tension, and conflict. One relevant area of research focuses on developing a more sophisticated understanding of whiteness, white identities, white privilege, and white […]
Filed under: Hawaii, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Tony Barta, ‘REVIEW ARTICLE Genocide and Colonialism from New and Old Perspectives’, borderlands e-journal 9, 1 (2010). A. Dirk Moses (ed), Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History, New York: Berghahn, 2008. John Docker, The Origins of Violence: Religion, History and Genocide, Sydney: UNSW Press, 2008. Robert Kenny, The Lamb Enters the Dreaming. […]
Filed under: Empire, Genocide, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Hussein Al-Rimmawi, ‘Spatial Changes in Palestine: from Colonial Project to an Apartheid System’, African and Asian Studies 8 (2009) 375-412 This paper addresses the socio-spatial impact of the Zionists’ colonial project in Palestine, including the replacement of the indigenous Palestinian people by Jewish immigrants. At present, the Palestinians, displaced or living in the remaining part […]
Filed under: Israel/Palestine, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
Today in Canadian History CJSW. Of course, I meant to say ‘Prince Charles II’, but the moment got the better of me.
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Eldred V. Masununguren and Simon Badza, ‘The Internationalization of the Zimbabwe Crisis Multiple Actors, Competing Interests’, Journal of Developing Societies (2010) This essay argues that key to the longevity and protractedness of the Zimbabwe crisis was the internationalization of a problem characterized by multiple definitions and multiple actors with multiple interests and strategies. To this […]
Filed under: Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
Neve Gordon, ‘Democracy and Colonialism’, Theory and Event 13, 2 (2010). For some time now I have been pondering the closely knit relationship between democracy and colonialism. Notwithstanding the widespread conception among democracy theorists that there is a contradiction between the two, in this paper I contend that colonialism has served as a crucial component […]
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Scott Rutherford, ‘Colonialism and the Indigenous present: an interview with Bonita Lawrence’, Race and Class (2010) Abstract: In this interview, a leading scholar of Indigeneity, Bonita Lawrence, discusses some of the crucial issues facing Native people in Canada today. She reflects on the denial of citizenship arising from the Indian Act’s definition of ‘Indianness’ – […]
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paradoxes of iroquois passports
From the pen of Felicia Fonseca, via Associated Press The team has maintained that traveling on anything other than an Iroquois-issued passport would be a strike against the players’ identity. But the British government wouldn’t budge in denying team members entry into England without U.S. or Canadian passports, keeping the Iroquois Nationals from competing at […]
Filed under: Canada, law, Political developments, Sovereignty, United States | Closed
state of origin’s poetic licence
Bravo. via Intertwingled Australians all let us rejoice, For we are young and free; We’ve golden soil and wealth for toil; Our home is girt by sea; Our land abounds in nature’s gifts Of beauty rich and rare; In history’s page, let every stage Advance Australia Fair. In Daharug: All of us mob are one […]
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settler colonial studies blog 