Occasion 5 (2013) Special issue editor Brian Codding. Brian F. Codding, Douglas W. Bird, Ethan Blue and Jon Christensen, Richard White, ‘An Introduction to the Comparative Wests’ Alistair Paterson, ‘Enduring Contact: Australian Perspectives in Environmental and Social Change’ Frank Lake, ‘Historical and Cultural Fires, Tribal Management and Research Issue in Northern California: Trails, Fires and […]

Whatever the opposite is of native or rooted, that is what we felt ourselves to be. We thought of ourselves as sojourners, temporary residents, and to that extent without a home, without a homeland. J. M. Coetzee, Summertime.

John Strachan, ‘From Poverty to Wretchedness: Albert Camus and the psychology of the pieds-noirs’, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 14, 2 (2013) This article uses the pieds-noirs (European settlers) of Algeria as a case study of how “poor whites” have been constructed, and have constructed themselves, in colonial historiography. Beginning with a reexamination of […]

Will Jackson, ‘Dangers to the Colony: Loose women and the “poor white” problem in Kenya’, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 14, 2 (2013). While a great deal of recent scholarship has focused on the problematic presence of so-called “poor whites” across the European colonial empires, comparatively little work has tackled their presence in Kenya. […]

Edward Cavanagh, ‘Kingdom or Colony? English or British?: Early modern Ireland and the colonialism question’, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 14, 2 (2013). Plenty happened in the century between Henry VIII’s rise to the position of “King of Ireland” in 1541 and the countrywide protests against Crown plantation policy in the fateful Uprising of […]

The point is that justice was always going to elude Trayvon Martin, not because the system failed, but because it worked. Martin died and Zimmerman walked because our entire political and legal foundations were built on an ideology of settler colonialism — an ideology in which the protection of white property rights was always sacrosanct; predators […]

Khoisan activists evicted for occupying a block of flats illegally in District Six erected a “matjieshuis” in the area on Sunday as a tribute to their aboriginal ancestors. Tania Kleinhans, co-founder of the Institute for the Restoration of the Aborigine of South Africa (Irasa), one of the occupiers who had to vacate the flats meant […]

J. Moufawad-Paul, ‘Sublimated Colonialism: The Persistence of Actually Existing Settler-Colonialism’, Philosophy Study 3, 3 (2013). In my paper, “Sublimated Colonialism: The Persistence of Actually Existing Settler-Colonialism,” I interrogate the remaining settler-colonialisms that refused to disappear during the epoch of decolonization. I am most concerned with those settler-colonialisms that persist at the centers of world capitalism, and examine […]

Kurt Eppinger’s community of German Christians arrived in the Holy Land to carry out a messianic plan – but after less than a century its members were sent into exile, the vision of their founding fathers brought to an abrupt and unhappy end. The Germans were no longer welcome in what had been first a […]

Six Native American tribes in the US state of Virginia are campaigning to win formal recognition from the federal government. The tribes claim they have been denied their proper rights – enjoyed by 565 other tribes in the US which do have official status – since a 1920s state law on “racial integrity” decreed that […]