Archive for July, 2010
a warning from the editor
This blog is going to be a little dead over the next three weeks.
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Mahmood Mamdani, ‘Responsibility to Protect or Right to Punish?’, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 4, 1 (2010) Abstract This essay argues that the new global regime of R2P bifurcates the international system between sovereign states whose citizens have political rights, and de facto trusteeship territories whose populations are seen as wards in need of external […]
Filed under: Africa, Genocide, law, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Eóin Flannery, ‘Ireland, Empire and Utopia: Irish postcolonial criticism and the Utopian impulse’, Textual Practice 24, 3 (2010). No abstract, so here is the intro: The idioms and the methodologies of ‘Utopia’ have always been explicit and implicit in both projects of colonial acquisition and expansion, and in the differential projects of anti-colonial theory and […]
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Felix Driver, ‘In Search of The Imperial Map: Walter Crane and the Image of Empire’, History Workshop Journal 69 (2010) Crane’s commitment to a gendered, pastoral iconography of labour – epitomized by his celebrated May Day scenes – is clear in his design for the 1886 map. The vision of empire as a means of […]
Filed under: Empire, Scholarship and insights | Closed
settler colonial studies blog 