Archive for May, 2024
Abstract: This article undertakes a comprehensive examination of the intricate intersections between gender, sexuality, and settler colonialism within the context of Palestine-Israel dynamics. Drawing upon insights from Palestinian studies and queer theory, it delves into the multifaceted manifestations of pinkwashing and homonationalism, critically analysing their implications. Through in-depth exploration and nuanced discourse, it navigates the […]
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Description: This Handbook, the first of its kind, provides an in- depth examination of the evolution, ideology, history and culture of Zionism and its various movements. Distancing itself from the slogans and cliches of advocacy, the volume provides much-needed context and background on the emergence of Zionism. The Handbook is divided into eight parts – with contributions from […]
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Excerpt: Sami Hadawi (1904–2004) was no stranger to Western misrepresentations of the land of Palestine and its Indigenous Arab population. In fact, he dedicated most of his life to re-orienting a global Zionist program and its imperial ways of seeing, perpetuated in the Canadian media and buttressed by Ottawa, that dehumanized Palestinians like himself.
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Excerpt: The renewed interest by Australian historians in colonial Australia’s involvement in the New Zealand Wars has inspired military historian Craig Wilcox, whose previous work includes Red Coat Dreaming (2009), to interrogate the Tasman frontier from the perspective of the Colony of New South Wales between 1788 and 1850. He contends that during this period, the maritime frontier […]
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Abstract: My commentary situates Desiree Fields’ lecture within a long-standing movement that, paying attention to real estate data and techniques of property, turned the housing market into a theoretical machine. I understand her intervention as a fourth and pivotal conceptual moment in the study of housing markets and inequalities for the discipline of geography, for […]
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Abstract: This paper examines the colonial paternalistic system during the first decade of Israeli military rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, along with its legal and financial framework and forms of resistance. Drawing on new archival material from sessions of the Israeli ministries’ directors–general committee and records of Israeli military orders, in addition […]
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Abstract: This article explores the contributions of Soviet writers to global discourses of Indigenous rights. The author focuses on the work of three writers, Yeremei Aipin (Khanty, b. 1948), Vladimir Sangi (Nivkh, b. 1935), and Yury Vella (Nenets, 1948–2013), as they entered into transnational Indigenous movements and navigated a rapidly changing political landscape in the […]
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Abstract: This thesis seeks to determine the role of rhetoric in the American process of occupation that includes Settler Colonialism and Imperialism. I explore the connection between these two ideas using an example of each: the United States’ occupation of the tribal territory of the Shoshone peoples of North America as an example of Settler […]
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Abstract: This thesis explores two underexplored works of gentrification literature—Paula Fox’s novel, Desperate Characters (1970) and Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s short story collection, Sabrina & Corina (2019). Desperate Characters offers a nuanced and critical examination of characters with privilege who move into Brooklyn in the 1960s, which involves the displacement of Black and Latinx communities; Fajardo-Anstine’s collection […]
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Abstract: ‘Bushrangers’ were late 18th to early 20th‐century bandits who lived in the Australian bush through the proceeds of crime, but today, they are national legends. A particular constellation of factors led to the white male bushranger’s status as a national hero in Australia. By charting the development of bushranging historiography alongside bushranging in practice […]
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