Archive for the ‘Australia’ Category
From Postcolonial Studies, 13, 1 (2010): A. Dirk Moses, “Time, Indigeneity, and Peoplehood: The Postcolony in Australia”: Despite many differences between settler colonial states and the African successor states of the European empires, some important parallels are identifiable in the debates among their black intelligentsias. If in Africa and Australia the language of decolonization was […]
Filed under: Australia, Empire, postcolonialism, Scholarship and insights | Closed
In a speech in Sydney yesterday, before an audience of American lawyers, Noel Pearson of the Cape York Institute argued that the developments in recognising Native Title during the 1990s have left most Aboriginal communities no better: Native title in this country is the sum total of whatever berry-picking rights Indigenous claimants might be able […]
Filed under: Australia, law, Political developments | Closed
call for papers: anzlhs law and history conference: owning the past – whose past? whose present?
From their website: The use and study of the past is constantly being refashioned and reinterpreted to construct meaning in the present, imparting understandings of a common but chaotic humanity. Because everyone and no one ‘owns’ history, the ownership of historical events and the right to speak of them remains deeply contested. What are the […]
Filed under: Australia, Call for papers, Canada, Empire, law, New Zealand, Political developments, Scholarship and insights, Sovereignty, United States | Closed
As part of the Macquarie Bicentenary Commemorations, the Forbes Society are presenting Brent Salter to speak on colonial law at the Common Room, NSW Bar Association, 174 Phillip Street Sydney, at 5pm on Monday 10 March. Salter, a wealth of knowledge on colonial law and co-editor of the Kercher Reports, will undoubtedly provide an interesting […]
Filed under: Australia, public lecture | Closed
This month has seen the release of Lisa Ford’s long anticipated monograph, entitled Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788-1836. When settlers assert sovereignty, argues Ford, the extension of their criminal jurisdiction to encompass the natives they colonised is just as important – perhaps more important – than any act of […]
Filed under: Australia, Scholarship and insights, Sovereignty, United States | Closed
settler colonial studies blog 