Archive for August, 2010
Marcella Fultz, M.L.S., compiler, ‘Bibliography of Books and Articles Published in English on Colonialism and Imperialism in 2009’, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 11, 2 (2010).
Filed under: Scholarship and insights | Closed
Avril Bell, ‘Being ‘at home’ in the nation: hospitality and sovereignty in talk about immigration’, Ethnicities 10(2), 236-256 The discourse of hospitality is widely used as a way of making sense of the relationships between ‘natives’ and ‘newcomers’ established by immigration. While at first glance this seems a generous and benign system of meaning to […]
Filed under: New Zealand, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Round table: Here from elsewhere: ‘Settlerism’ as a platform for south-south dialogue, Institute for Postcolonial Studies, Melbourne, 21 October 2010. Ex-colonial countries share not only the experience of repression of indigenous populations, but also the formation of new non-indigenous identities. Across the former colonised world, there appear to be common elements in the development of […]
Filed under: Australia, Scholarship and insights, Seminar | Closed
John Rennie Short, Cartographic Encounters: Indigenous Peoples and the Exploration of the New World (London: Reaktion Books, 2009) In this major re-interpretation of American history, John Rennie Short argues that until now, both writing about and popular understanding of, the exploration and mapping of the New World has largely ignored the pivotal role played by […]
Filed under: Political developments, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Marjory Harper and Stephen Constantine, Migration and Empire (OUP: forthcoming 2010). Migration and Empire provides a unique comparison of the motives, means, and experiences of three main flows of empire migrants. During the nineteenth century, the proportion of UK migrants heading to empire destinations, especially to Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, increased substantially and remained […]
Filed under: Empire, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Clare Anderson, ‘Colonization, kidnap and confinement in the Andamans penal colony, 1771-1864’, Journal of Historical Geography (in press), 2010. Abstract This paper explores practices of kidnap and confinement in the Andamans penal colony, for the period 1771–1864. It argues that during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries indigenous captivity was key to successful colonization. The British […]
Filed under: Asia, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Gareth Austin, POVERTY AND DEVELOPMENT IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, c1450-c1900: REFLECTIONS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ECONOMIC HISTORIOGRAPHY’, Short position paper for The State of Economic History in the World lunchtime session, EHES Conference, Geneva, 4 September 2009. From the beginning of continuous professional study on the subject, over half a century ago, the explicit or […]
Filed under: Africa, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
From BBC UK: Peru’s indigenous Amazon groups say they plan to launch their own political party ahead of elections next year. […] Peru’s large indigenous minority has historically had little representation in national politics. The new party will be called the Alliance for an Alternative for Humanity or APHU. […] “We want to seize the […]
Filed under: Latin America, Political developments | Closed
What’s wrong or right about skeleton-exhuming in the name of science? Alan G. Morris, ‘A bone to pick with politics’, The Star October 23, 2008 (from the inaugural lecture in the Faculty of Health Sciences delivered by Professor of Human Biology at the University of Cape Town): There is a myth among social scientists that because […]
Filed under: Political developments, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
inventing the indian
Indian identity, to borrow from Berkhofer, is a counterfeit construction embellished by citizens who reside outside the Native landscape. Indian attempts to define their own authenticity are dismissed by scientists as irrelevant and by jurists as insignificant. For most lay publics, therefore, their exposure to Indian identity takes the form of what Baudrilliard called a […]
Filed under: Quote, United States | Closed
settler colonial studies blog 