Archive for the ‘Africa’ Category
Brian C. Hosmer, ‘Indigenous Communities, Nation-States, Extranational Sovereignties and the Challenge of Environmental Justice in the Age of Globalization’, Environmental Justice 5, 5 (2012). How have intersections between nation states, extranational corporations (exercising sovereignty) and indigenous communities responded to the increasing demand for natural resources, and the globalization of both corporations and movements for indigenous […]
Filed under: Africa, Canada, law, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, Sovereignty, United States | Closed
Sidney L. Harring, ‘Diamond Exploration and the San in Namibia: Toward a Legal History’, Environmental Justice 5, 5 (2012). The Ju/’hoansi are a poor people with few resources living in the Kalahari Desert along the border between Namibia and Botswana. In Namibia, 200 of them occupy their traditional lands in the Nyae Nyae Conservancy, living […]
Filed under: Africa, law, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
mau mau 2012
Three Kenyans who were tortured by British colonial authorities can proceed with their legal claims against the UK government, a court has ruled. London’s High Court ruled the case, relating to the 1950s Mau Mau uprising, could proceed despite the time elapsed. The ruling means the case will now go to a full trial. Lawyers […]
Filed under: Africa, Empire, law, Political developments | Closed
carl nightingale on segregation
Carl H. Nightingale, Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities (University of Chicago Press, 2012). When we think of segregation, what often comes to mind is apartheid South Africa, or the American South in the age of Jim Crow—two societies fundamentally premised on the concept of the separation of the races. But as Carl H. […]
Filed under: Africa, Asia, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
Journal for the Study of Peace and Conflict (2011-12). Contains, among others: Tammy Murphy, ‘“Courses and Recourses”: Exploring Indigenous Peoples’ Land Reclamation in Search of Fresh Solutions for Israelis and Palestinians’. Jacinta Chiamaka Nwaka, ‘Host-Settler Relations, Conflict Dynamics, and Threatened Identity in Kano’
Filed under: Africa, Israel/Palestine, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Arena Journal 37/38 (2012). Introduction John Hinkson, ‘Why settler colonialism?’. Time Edward Cavanagh, ‘History, time and the indigenist critique’. Elizabeth Strakosch and Alissa Macoun, ‘The vanishing endpoint of settler colonialism’. Sarah Maddison, ‘Seven generations behind: Representing native nations’. Bodies Mary O’Dowd, ‘Embodying the Australian nation and silencing history’. Gaia Giuliani, ‘The colour lines of settler […]
Filed under: Africa, Asia, Australia, Éire, Canada, Empire, Europe, Genocide, Hawaii, Human Rights, Israel/Palestine, Latin America, middle east, New Zealand, Pacific, postcolonialism, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
Wayne E. Lee (ed.), Empires and Indigenes: Intercultural Alliance, Imperial Expansion, and Warfare in the Early Modern World (NYU Press, 2011). The early modern period (c. 1500–1800) of world history is characterized by the establishment and aggressive expansion of European empires, and warfare between imperial powers and indigenous peoples was a central component of the […]
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We are interested in papers that address the following broad topics and themes: • The political economy of land grabbing • The discourse and contested meaning of “empty lands”, “unoccupied lands” or “underused lands” • The role of multinational corporations, sovereign wealth funds (notably from Europe and the Gulf States), private equity funds as well […]
Filed under: Africa, Asia, Call for papers, Political developments, Scholarship and insights | 1 Comment
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 13, 1 (2012). Ann Curthoys, ‘Indigenous People and Settler Self Government: Introduction’. Zoë Laidlaw, ‘Slavery, Settlers and Indigenous Dispossession: Britain’s empire through the lens of Liberia’. Rachel Standfield, ‘Protection, Settler Politics and Indigenous Politics in the work of William Thomas’. Mark McKenna, ‘Transplanted to Savage Shores: Indigenous Australians and […]
Filed under: Africa, Australia, Canada, Empire, New Zealand, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
James Belich, ‘Review: Jerry H. Bentley (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of World History’, English Historical Review (2012). Relevant extract (but the review is worth canvassing in its entirety, absolutely): Duara’s decision to exclude settler colonialism from his ‘modern imperialism’ is also problematic. The hard fact is that three and one-third (Russian Asia) of the world’s […]
Filed under: Africa, Asia, Australia, Éire, Canada, Empire, Europe, Hawaii, Israel/Palestine, middle east, New Zealand, Pacific, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
settler colonial studies blog 