Archive for July, 2011
Wed July 13: Decolonization is widely thought of as one of the foundational processes of the modern world. An old imperial order was swept away: a new ‘world of nations’ emerged to replace it. The inviolable nature of national sovereignty, the right to self-determination and a portfolio of human rights acquired normative status as the […]
Filed under: Empire, Latin America, postcolonialism, public lecture | Closed
the sculptor’s nostalgia
From an exquisite Victorian-era guest house, KwaZulu-Natal.
Filed under: art | Closed
Sherene H. Razack, ‘Timely Deaths: Medicalizing the Deaths of Aboriginal People in Police Custody’, Law, Culture and the Humanities 7, 2 (2011) This article is part of a larger study of inquests into the deaths of Aboriginal people in custody. I suggest that the Aboriginal body is considered to be one that is already dead, […]
Filed under: Australia, Canada, law, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Victoria Jane Freeman, ‘”Toronto has no history!” Indigeneity, settler colonialism and historical memory in Canada’s largest city’ (Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO , 2010) The Indigenous past is largely absent from settler representations of the history of the city of Toronto, Canada. Nineteenth and twentieth century historical chroniclers often downplayed the historic presence of the Mississaugas […]
Filed under: Canada, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Gillad Rosen and Jill Grant, ‘Reproducing Difference: Gated Communities in Canada and Israel’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 35, 4 (2011). Historical and cultural studies of residential enclaves reveal the range of patterns within a phenomenon that some have treated essentially as the result of contemporary neoliberal conditions. Gated and enclosed communities are […]
Filed under: Canada, Israel/Palestine, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Sam Moyo, ‘Land concentration and accumulation after redistributive reform in post-settler Zimbabwe’, Review of African Political Economy 38, 128 (2011). Zimbabwe’s recent fast-track land reform was redistributive, but it retained significant enclaves of large-scale agro-industrial estates owned by transnational, domestic and state capital, despite unfulfilled popular and domestic elite demands for land. Such estates were […]
Filed under: law, Political developments, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
Awad Issa Mansour, ‘Orientalism, Total War and the Production of Settler Colonial Existence: The United States, Australia, Apartheid South Africa and the Zionist’ (PHD Dissertation, University of Exeter, 2011). Picking up on current research about settler colonialism, this study uses a modified version of a model explaining modern-state formation to explain settler-colonial formation. Charles Tilly […]
Filed under: Australia, Empire, Israel/Palestine, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
Kevin Davie, of the Mail and Guardian: What languages do you speak, I asked? “Afrikaans and Zulu,” she said. “Does that mean you are Zulu?” “Nee, ek is ‘n Boesman.” Kleintjie, who usually lives in Middelburg, is an aunt to Taki and Wole. The group of four, all of whom described themselves as Boesmanne, included […]
Filed under: Southern Africa | Closed
settler colonial studies blog 