« On settler ideologies, their activation, and their impact: Chris G. Sibley, Danny Osborne, ‘Ideology and Post-Colonial Society’, Political Psychology, Political Psychology Supplement: Advances in Political Psychology, 37, 2016, pp. 115-161
Decolonisation requires ‘refiguring presences’: Felix Nxumalo, ‘Towards ‘refiguring presences’ as an anti-colonial orientation to research in early childhood studies’, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 2016 »

The settler revolution began with a scam: Maria Konnikova, ‘The conman who pulled off history’s most audacious scam’, BBC News, 28/01/16

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Excerpt: In October 1822, Gregor MacGregor, a native of Glengyle, Scotland, made a striking announcement. He was, he said, not only a local banker’s son, but the Cazique, or prince, of the land of Poyais along Honduras’s Black River.

A little larger than Wales, the country was so fertile it could yield three maize harvests a year. The water, so pure and refreshing it could quench any thirst – and as if that weren’t enough, chunks of gold lined the riverbeds. The trees overflowed with fruit, and the forest teemed with game. Painting an exotic, Edenic vision of a new life abroad, his proposal offered quite the contrast with the rainy darkness and rocky soils of Scotland.

What Poyais lacked, he said, was willing investors and settlers…


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