Jen Preston, ‘Neoliberal settler colonialism, Canada and the tar sands’ Race & Class 55, 2 (2013). The Canadian government commenced the treaty-making process with the Indigenous peoples of the Athabasca region in 1870, motivated by the Geological Survey of Canada’s reports that petroleum existed in the area. This, in addition to the discovery of gold […]

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John Dugard and John Reynolds, ‘Apartheid, International Law, and the Occupied Palestinian Territory’, European Journal of International Law 24, 3 (2013). Apartheid is a loaded term; saturated with history and emotion. It conjures up images and memories of discrimination, oppression, and brutality; indulgence, privilege, and pretension; racism, resistance, and, ultimately, emancipation. All of which come […]

Call for Papers: Other People’s Country: Law, Water, Entitlement Special issue of Settler Colonial Studies (late 2014) Guest editors: Timothy Neale (University of Melbourne) and Stephen Turner (University of Auckland) There has been a tendency in settler colonial scholarship to focus, like settlers themselves, on land as the prime form of territory. But for indigenous groups, claims […]

According to the Commonwealth’s charter, member states should communicate and co-operate “in the common interests of our peoples and in the promotion of international understanding and world peace”. In its statement, The Gambian government said it had “withdrawn its membership of the British Commonwealth”. It said it had “decided that The Gambia will never be […]

Gregory S. Alexander, ‘The Complexities of Land Reparations’, Law & Social Inquiry (early view 2013). The question whether unjust dispossessions of land perpetrated on whole peoples in the past should be corrected by restitution in kind, that is, granting reparations in the form of returning land to the dispossessed former owners or their present-day successors, […]

George Pavlich, ‘Criminal Justice and Cape Law’s Persons’, Social Legal Studies (2013) Expansive criminal justice arenas have for centuries been marked by tenaciously unequal representations of the race, class, ethnicity and gender of the subjects they capture and punish. Although the phenomenon has been analysed in several ways, this article focuses on the influence of […]

Cory Willmott, ‘Beavers and Sheep: Visual Appearance and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Algonquian-Anglo Relations’, History and Anthropology iFirst (2013).  Differences between Great Lakes Algonquians and their colonizers in the meanings and values of dress were not simply a matter of different symbolic meanings for the coded elements. Rather, for Algonquians, the whole realm of the visual […]

The Cherokee Nation, to which the girl’s birth father belongs, had insisted she would stay with the tribe. BBC News.

Rachel Busbridge, ‘Performing colonial sovereignty and the Israeli ‘separation’ wall’, Social Identities (2013). As a structure that does not mark an actual border and is constructed primarily on occupied territory, the Israeli ‘separation’ wall is a unique space that functions as both border and borderlands. Here, I explore the wall as a performance of sovereignty which simultaneously […]