Archive for October, 2010
Kevin Murray’s take on the Institute of Postcolonial Studies-hosted ‘Here from elsewhere’ symposium, here. The evening was fantastic; and the scholars, as well as the chairman, facilitated brilliant discussion. Well done to the IPCS.
Filed under: Scholarship and insights, Seminar | Closed
Civilization is aggressive, as well as progressive – a positive state of society, attacking every obstacle, overwhelming every lesser agency, and searching out and filling up every crevice, both in the moral and physical world; while Indian life is an unarmed condition, a negative state, without inherent vitality, and without powers of resistance. The institutions […]
Filed under: Quote, United States | Closed
lisa ford reviews james belich
American Historical Review: James Belich’s book is useful not just for scholars comparing settler societies but for everyone working on nineteenth-century North America or Australasia. Belich tells a compelling story about economic colonialism in the nineteenth century. In the process, he provides a remarkably accessible synthesis of recent historiography describing economic development in a region […]
Filed under: Australia, Canada, Empire, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
Gray H. Whaley, Oregon and the Collapse of Illahee: U.S. Empire and the Transformation of an Indigenous World, 1792-1859 (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) Modern western Oregon was a crucial site of imperial competition in North America during the formative decades of the United States. In this book, Gray Whaley examines relations among newcomers […]
Filed under: Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Samar Attar, Debunking the Myths of Colonization: The Arabs and Europe (University Press of America, 2010) Debunking the Myths of Colonization examines Salman Rushdie’s thesis on the paradoxical nature of colonialism and its horrific impact on the psyche of the colonized. It probes Frantz Fanon’s theories concerning the relationship between colonizers and colonized, and attempts […]
Filed under: Israel/Palestine, literature, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Jaap Jacobs, The Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America (Cornell UP, 2009). The Dutch involvement in North America started after Henry Hudson, sailing under a Dutch flag in 1609, traveled up the river that would later bear his name. The Dutch control of the region was short-lived, but had profound effects […]
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Peter Limb, Norman Etherington and Peter Midgley, ed., Grappling with the Beast: Indigenous Southern African Responses to Colonialism, 1840-1930 (Brill, 2010) This volume contributes rich, new material to provide insights into indigenous responses to the colonial empires of Great Britain (South Africa, Swaziland, Botswana, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)) and Germany (Namibia) and explore the complex intellectual, cultural, […]
Filed under: Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
Jamie Allison, ‘Hamas, Gaza and the blockade’, International Socialism, 128 (13 October 10) No abstract; here are clippings: It is Hamas’s insistence on the Palestinian right to resist the occupation and their refusal to negotiate terms that will perpetuate it that earns the organisation the enmity of Israel and the Western powers. How did Hamas […]
Filed under: Israel/Palestine, Political developments, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Renisa Mawani, ‘”Half-breeds,” racial opacity, and geographies of crime: law’s search for the “original” Indian’, Cultural Geographies October 17, 4 (2010 ) Abstract: Discussions of hybridity have proliferated in cultural geography and in social and cultural theory. What has often been missing from these accounts are the ways in which mixed-race identities have been forged, […]
Filed under: Canada, law, Scholarship and insights | Closed
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