Archive for August, 2010
News from UCT press about a forthcoming book by Mohamed Adhikari, on San-trekboer relationships along the Cape frontier. Promises to be a timely offering into a neglected area of Southern African – and settler colonial – historiography.
Filed under: Genocide, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
I have been following the recent Ngapuhi case in NZ, and have made a few comments on this blog about the matter here, here and here. I admit that I have been stabbing in the dark quite a bit, and unsurprisingly, I have made a few errors in my coverage. An experienced Maori lawyer, Joshua Hitchcock, […]
Filed under: Empire, law, New Zealand, Political developments, Sovereignty | Closed
Dominic Griffiths and Maria L.C. Prozesky, ‘The Politics of Dwelling: Being White / Being South African’, Africa Today 56, 4 (2010) Abstract This paper explores the incongruence between white South Africans’ pre- and postapartheid experiences of home and identity, of which a wave of emigration is arguably a result. Among the commonest reasons given for […]
Filed under: Africa, postcolonialism, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
New Territories in Critical Whiteness, University of Leeds, UK, August 18-20. Postcolonial examinations of film, Edited Collection. Depictions of Indigenous Bodies on film, call for papers, Jus Gentium Cinema. Newberry Library Seminar in American Indian Studies. deadline 30 Sept. Newberry Library, Illinois. USYD Sawyer Conference: the Atlantic World in a Pacific Field, Thurs 5th – Sat […]
Filed under: Call for papers | Closed
Indigenous activists have criticised the United Nations for placing Australia’s convict sites on the World Heritage List. UNESCO has announced that 11 sites, including Port Arthur, Hyde Park Barracks and Fremantle Prison, should be preserved because of their “outstanding universal value”. Australia already has 17 World Heritage areas, but only two are buildings. The Tasmanian […]
Filed under: Australia, Political developments | Closed
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