North America was one of the first early-modern settler colonies, and this study examines its evolution from a European settler colony into an American settler empire and argues that the United States also became an important model for modern settler colonialism and Indigenous policy. Likewise, Algeria has long been considered a model for settler colonialism […]

Alain Beaulieu, ‘“An equitable right to be compensated”: The Dispossession of the Aboriginal Peoples of Quebec and the Emergence of a New Legal Rationale (1760–1860)’, Canadian Historical Review 94, 1 (2013). At the conquest of New France, the British had already built a long tradition of purchasing Aboriginal land. This policy, made official in the […]

Settler Colonial Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, 01 Feb 2013  is now available on Taylor & Francis Online.  Editors statement  Editors statement Edward Cavanagh & Lorenzo Veracini Pages: 1-1 DOI: 10.1080/18380743.2013.768169 Editorial  A new beginning for Settler Colonial Studies Penelope Edmonds & Jane Carey Pages: 2-5 DOI: 10.1080/18380743.2013.771761 Articles  ‘A species of rough gallantry’: bride capture […]

Empire and Colonies in Northeastern North America. Thursday, March 21, 2013 7:00 pm Atrium Room 101, Saint Mary’s University. Panelists:  JERRY BANNISTER: Department of History, Dalhousie University. Author of The Rule of the Admirals: Law, Custom, and Naval Government in Newfoundland, 1699-1832, and Co-editor of The Loyal Atlantic: Remaking the British Atlantic in the Revolutionary Era. EDWARD CAVANAGH: Department […]

Suren Pillay, ‘Anxious urbanity: xenophobia, the native subject and the refugee camp’, Social Dynamics iFirst (2013). Could we think of the black subject under apartheid as a refugee, and might this condition be the paradigmatic metaphor for thinking about the postcolonial African predicament of citizenship? This paper considers the xenophobic violence that occurred in South […]

Ariel Bultz, ‘Redefining Apartheid in International Criminal Law’, Criminal Law Forum (2013) This article asks: to what extent is Article 7(1)(j) of the Rome Statute—the crime of apartheid—a tenable crime in international criminal law? It will be argued that despite the obligations incumbent on states not to intentionally discriminate against social groups, there is no […]

David MacDonald and Graham Hudson, ‘The Genocide Question and Indian Residential Schools in Canada’, Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue Canadienne de Science Politique 45, 2 (2012). The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has been investigating the array of crimes committed in Canada’s Indian Residential Schools. Genocide is being invoked with increasing regularity to describe the crimes […]

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 […]