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Lucas Bessirea, ‘The Politics of Isolation: Refused Relation as an Emerging Regime of Indigenous Biolegitimacy’, Comparative Studies in Society and History 54 (2012). This essay describes the politics of voluntary isolation, an emerging category of indigeneity predicated on a form of human life that exists outside of history, the market, and wider networks of social connection. It […]
Filed under: Latin America, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Paul Nadasdya, ‘Boundaries among Kin: Sovereignty, the Modern Treaty Process, and the Rise of Ethno-Territorial Nationalism among Yukon First Nations’, Comparative Studies in Society and History 54 (2012). The Canadian government recently concluded a series of land claim and self-government agreements with many First Nations in the Yukon Territory. A result of First Nation claims […]
Filed under: Canada, Scholarship and insights, Sovereignty | Closed
Russell McGregor, Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal people and the Australian Nation (Canberra: AITSIS, 2011). McGregor offers a holistic interpretation of the complex relationship between Indigenous and settler Australians during the middle four decades of the twentieth century. Combining the perspectives of political, social and cultural history in a coherent narrative, he provides a cogent analysis of how […]
Filed under: Australia, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Adrian Muckle, ‘The Presumption of Indigeneity: Colonial Administration, the “Community of Race” and the Category of Indigène in New Caledonia, 1887–1946’, Journal of Pacific History (2012). From 1887 to 1946, the administrative apparatus known as the indigénat provided French administrators in New Caledonia with a set of exceptional measures to streamline the governing and summary […]
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Hummus is to Palestine as wild rice is to Native America. But of course, this is insufficient. There is so much more I could try, and fail, to say. Settler colonialism is criminalization: Drunks, drug addicts, and terrorists. It is the miscreant, the danger and the distrust in Lid, in Sabra, and on the Bad […]
Filed under: Australia, Canada, Israel/Palestine, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
Jun Uchida, Brokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876–1945 (Harvard University Press, 2011). Between 1876 and 1945, thousands of Japanese civilians—merchants, traders, prostitutes, journalists, teachers, and adventurers—left their homeland for a new life on the Korean peninsula. Although most migrants were guided primarily by personal profit and only secondarily by national interest, their […]
Filed under: Asia, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Daniel Martinez HoSang (Editor), Oneka LaBennett (Editor), Laura Pulido (Editor), Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century (University of California Press, 2012). Michael Omi and Howard Winant’s Racial Formation in the United States remains one of the most influential books and widely read books about race. Racial Formation in the 21st Century, arriving twenty-five years after […]
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Americans have been showing their independent streak for thousand of years. Samples of fossilized faeces from caves in Oregon show that two distinct tool-making cultures lived side by side more than 13,000 years ago. And a genetic analysis of living Native Americans from dozens of cultures indicates that, in prehistory, North and South America were […]
Filed under: Ancient History, Canada, Scholarship and insights, Science, United States | Closed
Tracey Banivanua Mar, ‘Belonging to Country: Racialising Space and Resistance on Queensland’s Transnational Margins, 1880–1900’, Australian Historical Studies 43, 2 (2012) This article explores the making of segregated space in Bundaberg as revealed by an 1891 trial for the killing of Charlie Eureka, an Aboriginal man of the area. The article reveals the ways settler […]
Filed under: Australia, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Damien Short, ‘When Sorry isn’t Good Enough: Official Remembrance and Reconciliation in Australia’, Memory Studies 5, 3 (2012) When compared with other reconciliation processes, Australian reconciliation and its acts of official remembrance have received relatively little academic attention, and yet the case raises many important questions for settler societies struggling to come to terms with […]
Filed under: Australia, Scholarship and insights | Closed
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