Archive for the ‘Australia’ Category
Actually placing “settlers” and “colonialism” in the same analytical field required overcoming a number of conceptual blockages. It took decades. The nineteenth century – the century of the “settler revolution” (see Belich 2009) – did not think that they could be compounded. Indeed the settler revolution had cleaved the two apart: Marx, who engaged […]
Filed under: Africa, Australia, Canada, Empire, Israel/Palestine, Latin America, New Zealand, Quote, Scholarship and insights, Seminar, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
Former ATSIC deputy chairman Ray Robinson is spearheading legal action in the Brisbane District court next week. He says he will be arguing the Howard government acted illegally by abolishing ATSIC. “A number of members of the board of commissioners are challenging the validity of the winding up of ATSIC,” he said. “I am challenging […]
Filed under: Australia, law | Closed
Correspondence on the stance of Australia’s ‘progressive’ Overland magazine, reproduced on the blog of Antony Loewenstein. 20/4/10 Dear members of Overland Editorial Board, We are writing to express our grave concern about your journal’s unbalanced coverage of Israeli-Palestinian issues in recent years. We all strongly respect Overland’s tradition of providing a forum for free and open […]
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Queensland criminal law was essentially English law with some local modifications, but its chief distinction from the latter was that it was largely administered by Queenslanders. While their legal definitions might be the same, crimes were often understood differently in late-nineteenth-century Queensland and England; some, like sheep-stealing, were seen as more heinous in the former; […]
Filed under: Australia, Empire, law, Quote, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Shaunnagh Dorsett and Ian Hunter, ed., Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought: Transpositions of Empire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) A collection that focuses on the role of European law in colonial contexts and engages with recent treatments of this theme in known works written largely from within the framework of postcolonial studies, which implicitly discuss […]
Filed under: Australia, Canada, Empire, law, New Zealand, Scholarship and insights, Sovereignty, United States | Closed
lisa ford reviews james belich
American Historical Review: James Belich’s book is useful not just for scholars comparing settler societies but for everyone working on nineteenth-century North America or Australasia. Belich tells a compelling story about economic colonialism in the nineteenth century. In the process, he provides a remarkably accessible synthesis of recent historiography describing economic development in a region […]
Filed under: Australia, Canada, Empire, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
From ABC News: Aboriginal protesters have forced the temporarily closure of an exhibition of paintings at the Wollongong City Gallery. The protesters say the images portray the denigration of Aboriginal people and are highly offensive. The exhibition called No Country For Dreaming is by nine-times Archibald finalist Paul Ryan. Aaron Broad Henry helped bring the exhibition to […]
Filed under: art, Australia, Political developments | Closed
Frances Peters-Little, Ann Curthoys and John Docker, eds., Passionate Histories: Myth, memory and Indigenous Australia (ANU E-Press, Aboriginal History Monograph 21, 2010). This book examines the emotional engagements of both Indigenous and Non-Indigenous people with Indigenous history. The contributors are a mix of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous scholars, who in different ways examine how the past […]
Filed under: Australia, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Yet to appear online this one, but some libraries might be subscribed. Australasian Canadian Studies 1-2 (2009) Cindy Blackstock, ‘Federation Dialogue: Is this our Canada? Is this our Australia? First Nations Child and Family Safety and Well-being in Two Commonwealth Countries’. Michelle Eady and Alison Reedy, ‘Crocodiles and Polar Bears: Technology and Learning in Indigenous […]
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