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Jimmy Johnson, ‘How Zionism Paved Way for Permanent War’, Electronic Intifada. Gabriel Piterberg noted in his masterful 2008 book The Returns of Zionism: Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel that the “achievements of the comparative study of settler colonialism have been at once scholarly and political,” that the young field “creates a language that amounts […]
Filed under: Israel/Palestine, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Richard J. Chacon and Rubén G. Mendoza (eds), The Ethics of Anthropology and Amerindian Research: Reporting on Environmental Degradation and Warfare (Springer, 2012). The decision to publish scholarly findings bearing on the question of Amerindian environmental degradation, warfare, and/or violence is one that weighs heavily on anthropologists. This burden stems from the fact that documentation […]
Filed under: Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Theodore Koditschek, Liberalism, Imperialism, and the Historical Imagination: Nineteenth-Century Visions of a Greater Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011). This book examines the ways in which imperial agendas informed the writing of history in nineteenth-century Britain and how historical writing transformed imperial agendas. Using the published writings and personal papers of Walter Scott, J. A. […]
Filed under: Empire, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Lorenzo Veracini, ‘Suburbia, Settler Colonialism and the World Turned Inside Out’, Housing, Theory and Society 1 (2011). While its primary aim is to explore possibilities for new research, this article contends that suburban and settler colonial imaginaries are related. It suggests that an awareness of the settler colonial “situation” and its dynamics can help an […]
Filed under: Scholarship and insights | Closed
colonial film database
This website holds detailed information on over 6000 films showing images of life in the British colonies. Over 150 films are available for viewing online. You can search or browse for films by country, date, topic, or keyword. Over 350 of the most important films in the catalogue are presented with extensive critical notes written […]
Filed under: Empire, media, Scholarship and insights, Website | Closed
John R. Chávez, ‘Aliens in Their Native Lands: The Persistence of Internal Colonial Theory’, Journal of World History 22, 4 (2011) In the 1960s “internal colonialism” became an important theory advanced to explain the historical development of ethnic and racial inequality in the modern world. By the 1980s the theory had been dismissed as inadequate. […]
Filed under: Latin America, Scholarship and insights | Closed
why pioneers bred like rabbits; or, how genetic scientists discursively erase prior inhabitants
The notion that pioneers tend to have more babies is consistent with the behavior of other species. Expose a bare patch of land, and the first plants to colonize it will most likely be species that grow quickly, reproduce early, and create many offspring. But these early colonizers eventually cede space to other plants that […]
Filed under: Canada, Scholarship and insights, Science, United States | Closed
International Journal on Minority and Group Rights 18, 4 (2011). Special Issue: Contrasted Perspectives on Recognition and Implementation of Indigenous Rights. Ndahinda, Felix. ‘Contrasted Perspectives on Recognition and Implementation of Indigenous Rights’. Swepston, Lee. ‘Discrimination, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, and Social Indicators’ Courtis, Christian. ‘Notes on the Implementation by Latin American Courts of the ILO […]
Filed under: Human Rights, law, Political developments, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Lorenzo Veracini, ‘Book Review’, Ethnic and Racial Studies (2011). The Two Faces of American Freedom outlines the rise and fall of the US ‘experiment’ in settler constitutionalism. It is an ultimately convincing outline of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American history as the history of a settler colonial project. While this project and the conception of freedom […]
Filed under: Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Malreddy Pavan Kumar, ‘(An)other Way of Being Human: indigenous alternatives to postcolonial humanism’, Third World Quarterly 32, 9 (2011) This essay articulates the ways in which the Indigenous People’s Movement leading to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples (2007) succeeds in what postcolonial theory has conventionally set out to emancipate, […]
Filed under: postcolonialism, Scholarship and insights | Closed
settler colonial studies blog 