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Michael P. Besten, ‘Envisioning ancestors: staging of Khoe-San authenticity in South Africa’, Critical Arts 25, 2 (2011). This article examines the operation of primordialist cultural stereotypes and their impact, particularly on the self-representations of Khoe-San people. The operation of these stereotypes is demonstrated by means of a study of a series of Khoe-San-related public events […]
Filed under: Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
Lorenzo Veracini, ‘Isopolitics, Deep Colonising, Settler Colonialism’, Interventions 13, 2 (2011). This essay contributes to interdisciplinary reflection on settler colonialism and decolonization by proposing an analysis of two characteristic traits of the ‘settler colonial situation’: isopolitics and deep colonizing. The first section outlines isopolitical relations as an alternative possibility to sustained colonial domination on the […]
Filed under: Scholarship and insights, Sovereignty | Closed
miranda johnson on reconciliation, indigeneity and postcolonial nationhood in settler states
Miranda Johnson, ‘Reconciliation, indigeneity, and postcolonial nationhood in settler states’, Postcolonial Studies 14, 2 (2011). In the Commonwealth settler states of Australia, New Zealand and Canada in the last two decades, ‘reconciliation’ has become a key term for expressing a new relationship between indigenous and non-indigenous (primarily white settler) peoples. The term is usually associated […]
Filed under: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Kate Law, ‘White Rhodesians: Settlers or Expatriates?’, Journal of Southern African Studies 37, 2 (2011). Reviewing: Robert Bickers (ed.), Settlers and Expatriates: Britons over the Seas, Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010), vi + 352 pp, £35 hardback, ISBN 978-019-929767-2 Josiah Brownell, The Collapse of Rhodesia, Population Demographics […]
Filed under: Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
introducing the scs network
Scholars who have published, or who have interests in the field of settler colonial studies (such as those writers featured in the settler colonial studies blog) are invited to join the new, settler colonial studies network. With time, it is hoped that the network will transform into a comprehensive directory of scholars. If you’d like […]
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History Department, McGregor Museum, Kimberley Wed 14 Sept: 19:00 Book launch “Luka Jantjie: resistance hero of the South African frontier” and opening of exhibition with talk by John Aldridge, Aldridge Press, London Thursday, 15 September 2011: 07:45 – 08:45 Registration 08:45 – 09:00 Welcome – Kgosi Pelonomi Toto 09:00 Opening Address 09:45 – 10:20 Tea […]
Filed under: Seminar, Southern Africa | Closed
Wed July 13: Decolonization is widely thought of as one of the foundational processes of the modern world. An old imperial order was swept away: a new ‘world of nations’ emerged to replace it. The inviolable nature of national sovereignty, the right to self-determination and a portfolio of human rights acquired normative status as the […]
Filed under: Empire, Latin America, postcolonialism, public lecture | Closed
the sculptor’s nostalgia
From an exquisite Victorian-era guest house, KwaZulu-Natal.
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Sherene H. Razack, ‘Timely Deaths: Medicalizing the Deaths of Aboriginal People in Police Custody’, Law, Culture and the Humanities 7, 2 (2011) This article is part of a larger study of inquests into the deaths of Aboriginal people in custody. I suggest that the Aboriginal body is considered to be one that is already dead, […]
Filed under: Australia, Canada, law, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Victoria Jane Freeman, ‘”Toronto has no history!” Indigeneity, settler colonialism and historical memory in Canada’s largest city’ (Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO , 2010) The Indigenous past is largely absent from settler representations of the history of the city of Toronto, Canada. Nineteenth and twentieth century historical chroniclers often downplayed the historic presence of the Mississaugas […]
Filed under: Canada, Scholarship and insights | Closed
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