Tom Pessah, ‘Violent representations: hostile Indians and civilized wars in nineteenth-century USA’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, iFirst (2013). Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, white settlers officially labelled most conflicts with Native Americans as ‘wars’, unlike the ‘massacres’ white settlers experienced. This differential description indicated each race’s respective ‘civility’ and ‘savagery’. Indiscriminate warfare was officially […]

Ellen Smith, ‘White Aborigines: Xavier Herbert, P. R. Stephensen and the Publicist’, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies (2013). This essay explores the way ideas about Aboriginality informed right-wing nationalist projects in Australia in the 1930s. Focusing on the publication by the proto-fascist Publicist group of Xavier Herbert’s classic anti-racist protest novel of the Australian […]

Brian Egan, ‘Towards Shared Ownership: Property, Geography, and Treaty Making in British Columbia’, Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography 95, 1 (2013). In British Columbia, Canada’s westernmost province, unresolved Aboriginal claims to land remain highly contentious. Since the early 1990s, a unique treaty negotiation process has sought to resolve questions about land ownership and establish […]

David B. MacDonald, ‘Reconciliation after Genocide in Canada: Towards a syncretic model of democracy’, AlterNative 9, 1 (2013). Despite recent claims by Saul (2008) that Canada’s federal and provincial systems of government, including its justice systems, have been strongly influenced by Aboriginal peoples, this article advances that any infl uence has been largely coincidental. A […]

Magdalena Naum and Jonas M. Nordin (eds), Scandinavian Colonialism and the Rise of Modernity: Small Time Agents in a Global Arena, vol. 37 of Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology (2013).