Archive for September, 2010
reblog: the good guys
The film shows the farmers’ fight to keep their farms all the while Mugabe’s government tries to evict them, harass them and ultimately beats them up and successfully seizes their land. It is meant to be a sad story, and it is–highlighting the plight of the White farmers in Zimbabwe. It is also a blatant […]
Filed under: media, Southern Africa | Closed
you are being watched, melbourne
Construction firm Grocon has unveiled plans for a new Melbourne apartment block featuring a giant 32-storey portrait of Wurundjeri leader William Barak. via ABC News
Filed under: Australia | Closed
Julie Evans, ‘Where Lawlessness Is Law: The Settler-Colonial Frontier As a Legal Space of Violence ‘, Australian Feminist Law Journal 30 (2009), 3-22. Part of the introduction: In understanding international law as a key legitimating discourse of colonialism, this paper argues the need to view settler-colonial frontiers within a conceptual field that directs as much […]
Filed under: Australia, law, Scholarship and insights, Sovereignty | Closed
Amanda Nettelbeck and Russell Smandych, ‘Policing Indigenous Peoples on Two Colonial Frontiers: Australia’s Mounted Police and Canada’s North-West Mounted Police’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 43, 2 (August 2010), pp. 356-375. Abstract This article examines the ways in which colonial policing and punishment of Indigenous peoples evolved as an inherent part of the […]
Filed under: Australia, Canada, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Mark Finnane, Jonathan Richards ‘Aboriginal Violence and State Response: Histories, Policies and Legacies in Queensland 1860–1940’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 43, 2 (August 2010), pp. 238-262 Abstract During the long era of ‘protection’ (enacted in 1897, flourishing in the interwar years and with effects continuing to this day) policy towards Australian Indigenous […]
Filed under: Australia, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Suren Pillay, Cape Town Guest Blogger The World Cup had just ended, and there were stories in the newspapers, telling us that foreign nationals were going to be killed as soon as the event was over. These stories immediately mobilized many of us in civil society, and it even mobilized the state into action. The […]
Filed under: Africa, media, Political developments, Southern Africa | Closed
Christopher Hilliard, ‘Licensed Native Interpreter: The Land Purchaser as Ethnographer in Early-20th-Century New Zealand’, Journal of Pacific History 45, 2 (2010) Abstract Many of the cross-cultural intermediaries who figure in the New Zealand historiography operated in ‘middle ground’ situations. However, in New Zealand as elsewhere in the Pacific, intermediaries also had roles to play in […]
Filed under: New Zealand, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Bronwen Douglas, ‘Terra Australis to Oceania: Racial Geography in the “Fifth Part of the World”‘, Journal of Pacific History 45, 2 (2010): Abstract This paper is a synoptic history of racial geography in the ‘fifth part of the world’ or Oceania — an extended region embracing what are now Australia, Island Southeast Asia, the Pacific […]
Filed under: Australia, New Zealand, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Writing a book chapter on mass media and American Indians brings sharply into focus our western love of science. I’m a believer, too. I love the clean lines of the scientific method, the deductive and logical journey to discovery. My colleagues who embark on studies of a more qualitative nature seem to meander along a […]
Filed under: Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
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