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Andrew Woolford, ‘Transition and Transposition: Genocide, Land and the British Columbia Treaty Process’, New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry 4, 2 (2011) This paper situates the British Columbia Treaty Process within a brief discussion of the role of land in genocidal processes and transitional justice. It does so as a means to highlight […]
Filed under: Canada, Empire, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Gregory Ablavsky, ‘Making Indians “White”: The Judicial Abolition of Native Slavery in Revolutionary Virginia and its Racial Legacy’, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 159, (2011). This article traces the history of a series of “freedom suits” brought by Virginia slaves between 1772 and 1806, in which the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia judicially abolished […]
Filed under: law, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Craig Bryan Yirush, ‘Claiming the New World: Empire, Law, and Indigenous Rights in the Mohegan Case, 1704–1743’, Law and History Review 29, 2 (2011). In 1773, with the empire on the brink of revolt, the Privy Council gave the final ruling in the case of the Mohegan Indians versus the colony of Connecticut. Thus ended […]
Filed under: law, Scholarship and insights, Sovereignty, United States | Closed
From Business Day: RURAL Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti plans to ask the Cabinet to permit more land claims by black South Africans who lost their property before 1913. Legislation providing for land claims, which has cost the fiscus billions of rand, had as a cut-off date for restitution the promulgation of the […]
Filed under: law, Political developments, Southern Africa | Closed
Tracey Heatherington. Wild Sardinia: Indigeneity and the Global Dreamtimes of Environmentalism. Culture, Place, and Nature Series. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010. Illustrations, glossary. 328 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-295-98998-3; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-295-98999-0. Reviewed by Eric P. Perramond (Colorado College) Published on H-HistGeog (May, 2011) Commissioned by Robert M. Wilson [T]here is useful material […]
Filed under: Europe, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Felix Mukwiza Ndahinda, Indigenousness in Africa: A Contested Legal Framework for Empowerment of ‘Marginalized’ Communities (Springer, 2011). Following the internationalisation of the indigenous rights movement, a growing number of African hunter-gatherers, pastoralists and other communities have adopted indigenousness in claiming special legal protection. Their legal claims as the indigenous peoples of Africa are backed by […]
Filed under: Africa, law, Scholarship and insights | Closed
whiteness conference
We encourage submissions which consider the various ways in which whites enter and encounter the non-West (as settlers, scholars, tourists, diplomats, soldiers, aid workers, missionaries, and so on) and how they have understood, deployed, and/or elided their whiteness. We also seek papers that will examine how indigenous populations (service workers, sex workers, Christian converts, colonial […]
Filed under: Call for papers, Scholarship and insights | Closed
More on the workshop for indigenous governance, here. To participate in this conference will require a substantial commitment of your time. We estimate no less than a week: half a week (at the very least) to read the pre-circulated 18 papers, and half a week to attend the conference. We are hoping for a relatively […]
Filed under: Australia, Scholarship and insights, Seminar | Closed
Orin Star, ‘Here come the Anthros (again): The Strange Marriage of Anthropology and Native America’, Current Anthropology 26 2 (2011) This article charts and tries to reckon with the relationship between anthropology and Native America. In an older time, most American anthropologists made their living studying Indians, this almost parasitic disciplinary dependence lasting well into […]
Filed under: Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Audra Simpson, ‘Settlement’s Secret’, Current Anthropology 26, 2 (2011): In the spirit of Orin Starn’s piece for Cultural Anthropology “Here Come the Anthros (Again): The Strange Marriage of Anthropology and Native America,” I offer the following response that orients to three periodizations within his review of the literature. These periodizations are marked by an anthropological […]
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settler colonial studies blog 