Archive for the ‘Australia’ Category
Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson (ed), Natural Experiments of History (Harvard University Press, 2010): Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can’t be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often considered to be the hallmark of the scientific method. This impossibility holds for any science concerned with the past. In addition, many manipulative […]
Filed under: Africa, Australia, Canada, Latin America, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Victoria Kuttainen, Unsettling Stories: Settler Postcolonialism and the Short Story Composite (Cambridge Scholars Press, Feb 2010). The first study of the synergies between postcolonialism and the genre of the short story composite, Unsettling Stories considers how the form of the interconnected short story collection is well suited to expressing thematic aspects of postcolonial writing on settler terrain. […]
Filed under: Australia, Canada, postcolonialism, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Catriona Elder, ‘Colonialism and Indigenous dispossession in Against the Wind‘, Continuum, Volume 24, Issue 3 June 2010, pages 399 – 409: This article undertakes a revisionist reading of the mini-series Against the Wind (1979) in order to explore the absence of a narrative of Indigenous dispossession. In doing so it seeks to explore the type […]
Filed under: Australia, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Gregory D. Smithers, Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780s–1890s (routledge, 2009). This book combines transnational history with the comparative analysis of racial formation and reproductive sexuality in the settler colonial spaces of the United States and British Australia. Specifically, the book places “whiteness,” and the changing definition of what it […]
Filed under: Australia, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
homelands
Homelands represent the intersection of specific areas of country… That is, they do not represent random settlements ‘where people go for a better lifestyle’ away from the larger communities created by non-Indigenous agents. In contrast, homelands represent particular living areas in which each Indigenous individual and group is based in order to fulfil their own […]
Filed under: Australia, Political developments, Southern Africa | Closed
Please enjoy these mp3 recordings of the papers delivered at the recent round table, ‘Settler Colonialism and the Colour Line’. Individual abstracts can be found here. Gaia Giuliani, Matching Colours Lorenzo Veracini, Decolonising Settler Colonialism Maria Giannacopoulos, Xenos, Nomos, Bia (temporarily unavailable) Kiran Grewal, The Native versus the Alien: Discourses of Belonging and the Reinforcement […]
Filed under: Australia, law, media, Political developments, postcolonialism, public lecture, Scholarship and insights, Sovereignty, Website | Closed
Maria Giannacopoulos, ‘The Nomos of Apologia’, Griffith Law Review, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2009. Abstract: On 13 February 2008, the newly elected Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, offered an apology to the Stolen Generations of Indigenous peoples – an apology he said he offered ‘without qualification’. His ‘unqualified’ apology, however, was crafted for the […]
Filed under: Australia, law, Political developments, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Corinn Columpar, Unsettling Sights: The Fourth World on Film (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010): Unsettling Sights: The Fourth World on Film examines the politics of representing Aboriginality, in the process bringing frequently marginalized voices and visions, issues and debates into the limelight. Corinn Columpar uses film theory, postcolonial theory, and Indigenous theory to frame her […]
Filed under: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Farid Farid, ‘Terror at the beach: Arab bodies and the somatic violence of white cartographic anxiety in Australia and Palestine/Israel’, Social Semiotics 19:1 (2009) 59 — 78. Abstract: Nearly six months after the horrific episodes of racist violence at Cronulla beach in Australia, Israeli artillery fire killed seven Palestinians on a northern Gaza beach. This […]
Filed under: Australia, Israel/Palestine, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Libby Porter, Unlearning the Colonial Cultures of Planning (Farnham/Burlington: Ashgate, 2010). Colonialization has never failed to provoke discussion and debate over its territorial, economic and political projects, and their ongoing consequences. This work argues that the state-based activity of planning was integral to these projects in conceptualizing, shaping and managing place in settler societies. Planning […]
Filed under: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
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