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Settler specie is typically littered with imagery of animals: the exotic ones unseen before in Europe. Occasionally, they display ‘the native’. with help from Newspaper Rock
Filed under: Australia, United States, wacky | Closed
Iain Davidson, ‘Australian Archaeology as a Historical Science: ‘A LECTURE BY THE RETURNING CHAIR OF AUSTRALIAN STUDIES, HARVARD UNIVERSITY 2008–09’, Journal of Australian Studies 34, 3 (2010), pp. 377 – 398 Abstract ‘Archaeologists make up stories about the past, but not just any stories.’ Archaeological stories are written principally from the interpretation of material remains. […]
Filed under: Australia, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Lyndall Ryan, ‘Settler massacres on the Port Phillip Frontier, 1836-1851’, Journal of Australian Studies 34, 3 (2010), pp. 257 – 273 Abstract This article addresses the vexed question of settler massacres of Aboriginal Victorians on the Port Phillip frontier 1836-1851. It argues for a new approach to the question by combining the models of Aboriginal […]
Filed under: Australia, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Indigenous Law Journal 8, 1 (2010) Table of Contents: Bessie Mainville ‘Traditional Native Culture and Spirituality: A Way of Life That Governs Us Community Voices’, pp. 1-6. Kent McNeil, ‘Reconciliation and Third-Party Interests: Tsilhqot’in Nation v. British Columbia’, pp. 7-26. Emily Luther, ‘Whose Distinctive Culture – Aboriginal Feminism and R. v. Van der Peet’, pp. […]
Filed under: Australia, Canada, law, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Ulf Johansson Dahrea, ‘There are no such things as universal human rights – on the predicament of indigenous peoples, for example’, International Journal of Human Rights 14, 5 2010 Abstract: There is a gap between the normative ideas of universal human rights and social practice. This discrepancy in the human rights field is analysed in […]
Filed under: Africa, Asia, Australia, Éire, Canada, Israel/Palestine, law, New Zealand, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
The Canberra Times, Thursday 9 July 1953, p. 6. via Trove Newspapers
Filed under: Australia, Empire, media, Southern Africa | Closed
Andrew Dawson and Matthew Lange, ‘Dividing and Ruling the World? A Statistical Test of the Effects of Colonialism on Postcolonial Civil Violence’, Social Forces 88, 2, 2009 abstract To test claims that postcolonial civil violence is a common legacy of colonialism, we create a dataset on the colonial heritage of 160 countries and explore whether […]
Filed under: Africa, Asia, Australia, Éire, Canada, Empire, Genocide, Hawaii, Israel/Palestine, Latin America, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
Christa Scholtz, ‘Land Claim Negotiations And Indigenous Claimant Legibility In Canada And New Zealand’, Political Science 62, 1 (2010) In 1973 Canada instituted a land claims negotiation policy. Records reveal that the government felt reasonably confident that Indian bands, on average, represented defined political actors with whom the federal government could engage in a negotiation […]
Filed under: Australia, Canada, law, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Georgia Shiells, ‘Immigration History and Whiteness Studies: American and Australian Approaches Compared’, History Compass 8, 8 (2010) Abstract The emergence of whiteness studies as a discrete field of academic enquiry has had important implications across a range of fields, including history. In particular, insights drawn from whiteness studies can be fruitfully applied to the study […]
Filed under: Australia, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Round table: Here from elsewhere: ‘Settlerism’ as a platform for south-south dialogue, Institute for Postcolonial Studies, Melbourne, 21 October 2010. Ex-colonial countries share not only the experience of repression of indigenous populations, but also the formation of new non-indigenous identities. Across the former colonised world, there appear to be common elements in the development of […]
Filed under: Australia, Scholarship and insights, Seminar | Closed
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