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Gillad Rosen and Jill Grant, ‘Reproducing Difference: Gated Communities in Canada and Israel’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 35, 4 (2011). Historical and cultural studies of residential enclaves reveal the range of patterns within a phenomenon that some have treated essentially as the result of contemporary neoliberal conditions. Gated and enclosed communities are […]
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Sam Moyo, ‘Land concentration and accumulation after redistributive reform in post-settler Zimbabwe’, Review of African Political Economy 38, 128 (2011). Zimbabwe’s recent fast-track land reform was redistributive, but it retained significant enclaves of large-scale agro-industrial estates owned by transnational, domestic and state capital, despite unfulfilled popular and domestic elite demands for land. Such estates were […]
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Awad Issa Mansour, ‘Orientalism, Total War and the Production of Settler Colonial Existence: The United States, Australia, Apartheid South Africa and the Zionist’ (PHD Dissertation, University of Exeter, 2011). Picking up on current research about settler colonialism, this study uses a modified version of a model explaining modern-state formation to explain settler-colonial formation. Charles Tilly […]
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Kevin Davie, of the Mail and Guardian: What languages do you speak, I asked? “Afrikaans and Zulu,” she said. “Does that mean you are Zulu?” “Nee, ek is ‘n Boesman.” Kleintjie, who usually lives in Middelburg, is an aunt to Taki and Wole. The group of four, all of whom described themselves as Boesmanne, included […]
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Making Settler Colonial Space: Perspectives on Race, Place and Identity (Palgrave UK, 2010) Edited by Tracey Banivanua Mar and Penelope Edmonds. To be launched by Patrick Wolfe. The new journal, settler colonial studies, introduced by Jane Carey and Lorenzo Veracini. When: Thursday 30th June, 5.00pm for a 5.30pm start Where: Gertrudes Brown Couch, 30 Gertrude […]
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Magid Shihade, Not Just a Soccer Game: Colonialism and Conflict among Palestinians in Israel (Syracuse UP, 2011) On April 11, 1981, two neighboring Palestinian Arab towns competed in a soccer match. Kafr Yassif had a predominantly Christian population, and Julis was a predominantly Druze town. When a fight broke out between fans, the violence quickly […]
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Aziz Rana. The Two Faces of American Freedom. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010. 432 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-04897-3. Reviewed by Christopher Tomlins (UC Irvine School of Law) Though passionate, Rana is idealistic, not angry. No hectoring ideologue, he is, rather, a true believer in the promise of American freedom. That might make him naïve, […]
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Edward Cavanagh, ‘”Not Celebrated for its Agriculture”: Emigrant Guides and Land Settlement in New South Wales, 1831-65’, Australian Studies 3 (2011) This article examines the processes of British settlement in New South Wales through the lens of emigrant guides that were produced to attract newcomers to the expanding colony. The author identifies two main types […]
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Eve Darian-Smith, ‘Environmental Law and Native American Law’, Annual Review of Law and Social Science 6 (2010): This review seeks to engage two bodies of scholarship that have typically been analyzed as discrete areas of inquiry – environmental law and American Indian law. In the twenty-first century, native peoples’ involvement in environmental politics is becoming […]
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