Archive for the ‘Australia’ Category
The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West is pleased to present: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FRONTIER IN AN AGE OF TRANSNATIONAL HISTORY An international symposium on the concept of the frontier in its global contexts Saturday, February 25, 2012, 8:30 am – 5:00 pm. Friends’ Hall, The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA All lectures and roundtables […]
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Patrick Brantlinger, ‘Notes on the postmodernity of fake(?) Aboriginal literature’, Postcolonial Studies 14, 4 (2011). This article examines issues of authenticity in Australian culture. From the very beginning, Australia has been plagued and entertained by literary hoaxes. The recent revelation that Mudrooroo, who was for several decades Australia’s leading Aboriginal author, is of African-white and […]
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Saliha Belmessous, ed., Native Claims: Indigenous Law against Empire (New York and Oxford: OUP, 2011). This groundbreaking collection of essays shows that, from the moment European expansion commenced through to the twentieth century, indigenous peoples from America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand drafted legal strategies to contest dispossession. The story of indigenous resistance to European […]
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Janet McGaw, Anoma Pieris and Emily Potter, ‘Indigenous Place-Making in the City: Dispossessions, Occupations and Implications for Cultural Architecture’, Architectural Theory Review 16, 3 (2011) This paper considers Indigenous place-making practices in light of an idea for a major Victorian Indigenous Cultural Knowledge and Education Centre in central Melbourne as championed by Traditional Owners in Victoria. […]
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Fiona Batemen and Lionel Pilkington (eds), Studies in Settler Colonialism: Politics, Identity and Culture (Palgrave MacMillan: New York, 2011). Studies in Settler Colonialism: Politics, Identity and Culture offers an accessible overview of settler colonialism as a globally important cultural and political phenomenon within a range of historical and geographical contexts, including Palestine, Hawai’i, Canada, southern […]
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Diane Austin-Broos, ‘The Politics of Difference and Equality: Remote Aboriginal Communities, Public Discourse, and Australian Anthropology’, Transforming Anthropology 19, 2 (2011) The growth of a network of remote communities in Australia’s Northern Territory followed the success of an Aboriginal land rights movement in the 1970s. In the course of the past two decades, there have […]
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Katie Pickles, ‘Transnational History and Cultural Cringe: Some Issues for Consideration in New Zealand, Australia and Canada’, History Compass 9, 9 (2011). This article draws upon my personal experience working across the boundaries of New Zealand, Canadian and Australian History. With attention to the British colonial past in these places I compare and contrast the […]
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P.G. McHugh, Aboriginal Title: The Modern Jurisprudence of Tribal Land Rights (Oxford University Press, 2011). Aboriginal title represents one of the most remarkable and controversial legal developments in the common law world of the late-twentieth century. Overnight it changed the legal position of indigenous peoples. The common law doctrine gave sudden substance to the tribes’ […]
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Emma Christopher, A Merciless Place: The Fate of Britain’s Convicts after the American Revolution (OUP, 2011). Since Robert Hughes’ The Fatal Shore, the fate of British convicts has burned brightly in the popular imagination. Incredibly, their larger story is even more dramatic–the saga of forgotten men and women scattered to the farthest corners of the […]
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