Archive for September, 2010
Kenichi Matsui, Native Peoples and Water Rights: Irrigation, Dams, and the Law in Western Canada (M-Q UP 2010); Hnet review here. Economic developments in irrigation, agriculture, and hydroelectric power generation in western Canada at the turn of the last century challenged the way Native peoples had traditionally managed the watershed environment. Facing rapidly expanding provincial […]
Filed under: Canada, law, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Mapuche Prisoners on Hunger Strike to Demand Talks via IPS ipsnews.net. The hunger strike is a product of “the desperation of the Mapuche community members, who see all of the doors closing and that there is no political will to engage in talks and recognise the existence of a conflict” over land, Fernando Lira, the […]
Filed under: Latin America, Political developments | Closed
crab colonialism
“one of the most arduous migrations on Earth” crab colonisers on Christmas Island via National Geographic
Filed under: Political developments, wacky | Closed
Robin A. Butlin, Geographies of Empire: European Empires and Colonies c.1880–1960 (Cambridge University Press, 2009). How did the major European imperial powers and indigenous populations experience imperialism and colonisation in the period 1880-1960? In this richly-illustrated comparative account, Robin Butlin provides a comprehensive overview of the experiences of individual European imperial powers – British, French, […]
Filed under: Empire, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Peter J. Hugill, ‘The Shaping of an American Empire’, Journal of Historical Geography 36, 3, (2010), pp. 261-265 Abstract This paper creates a traditional, counterfactual, historical geography that proposes the rise of an American Empire in the 1800s instead of the British. The industrialization of the British world-economy of the early 1800s, victory in the […]
Filed under: Empire, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
reblog: russia / indigeneity
“If a person from the south of the country living in Kamchatka says that he or she feels like a Koryak, then they have the right to fish without being disturbed,” Russia Considers Better Definition Of Indigenous Peoples. via Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources
Filed under: Political developments | Closed
a heartfelt dedication
From the opening pages of C. J. Uys, In the Era of Shepstone: Being a Study of British Expansion in South Africa (1842-1877) (Lovedale: Lovedale Press, South Africa, 1933).
Filed under: Quote, Southern Africa | Closed
Settlers are made by conquest, not just by immigration. Settlers are kept settlers by a form of the state that makes a distinction – particularly juridical – between conquerers and conquered, settlers and natives, and makes it the basis of other distinctions that tend to buttress the conquerers and isolate the conquered, politically. However fictitious […]
Filed under: Africa, Quote, Southern Africa | Closed
coinage
Settler specie is typically littered with imagery of animals: the exotic ones unseen before in Europe. Occasionally, they display ‘the native’. with help from Newspaper Rock
Filed under: Australia, United States, wacky | Closed
ryan irwin on the place of south africa in transnational conceptualisations of the ‘colour line’
Ryan Irwin, ‘Mapping Race: Historicizing the History of the Color-Line’, History Compass 8, 9 (2010) pp. 984–999 Abstract This study examines scholarship about the global color-line. It unfolds in two sections. The first traces how understandings of race and racism were encoded within university environments in the mid-twentieth century. The second shows how this epistemology […]
Filed under: Southern Africa, United States | Closed
settler colonial studies blog 