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interventions 13, 1 (2011)
Between Subalternity and Indigeneity, ed. Bird and Rothberg Jodi A. Byrd; Michael Rothberg, ‘BETWEEN SUBALTERNITY AND INDIGENEITY: Critical Categories for Postcolonial Studies’. This introductory essay addresses the conditions for possible exchange between subaltern studies and indigenous and American Indian studies. It highlights the special significance of Spivak’s ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’ as an inaugurating moment […]
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Robert van Krieken, ‘Kumarangk (Hindmarsh Island) and the Politics of Natural Justice under Settler-Colonialism’, Law & Social Inquiry 36, 1 (2011). This article examines the impact of the application of apparently impartial principles of procedural fairness and natural justice on the construction of “authentic” and “inauthentic” knowledge of Aboriginal culture. It discusses the progression of […]
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I consider myself always available to acknowledge the wrongs of settler colonialism in Australia, but I do not like being cornered in this way. I can already tell that I won’t get along with this amnesic, misinformed, green-eyed git. The matter is serious, though. I sigh in brief repose, and then my beer glass goes […]
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Dear all, We are pleased to announce that the first issue of settler colonial studies is now available for your viewing. Check it out here. In this stage of its life, settler colonial studies is an online, open-access journal. There are may benefits of such a medium (among them, universally free access, and immediate registration […]
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Incredibly detailed and contextualised review of Lisa Ford’s Settler Sovereignty by Cambridge oracle Paul McHugh. Law and History Review (2011), 29: 313-316 a bit of it: Ford purposefully describes this as a predominantly legal story rather understating the impact of the huge socioeconomic and demographic changes that turned into steamrolling settler sovereignty. She could stress […]
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book launch in melbourne
SETTLER COLONIALISM: A Theoretical Overview by Lorenzo Veracini Readings Carlton – 309 Lygon St, Carlton Friday, 18th February 2011, 6:30pm The book will be launched by Henry Reynolds
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Here’s a teaser for the forthcoming settler colonial studies 1 (2011). ARTICLES Lorenzo Veracini: Introducing settler colonial studies pp. 1-12 Patrick Wolfe: After the Frontier: Separation and Absorption in US Indian Policy pp. 13-50 Scott Lauria Morgensen: The Biopolitics of Settler Colonialism: Right Here, Right Now pp. 51-75 Ivan Sablin and Maria Savelyeva: Mapping Indigenous […]
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more on the transnational maori
Maori made their way willingly to Sydney to trade, acquire skills and learn new ideas. Many undoubtedly arrived as crew on whaling and trading ships. There’s a ‘Maori Lane’ in The Rocks in central Sydney which commemorates the Maori whalers who lived there. A significant number of Maori entering Australia may have also been slaves […]
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Comparative Studies in Society and History 53, 1 (2011), pp. 219–226. The field of settler colonial studies is attracting broad scholarly attention. Although it is comparative and transnational by definition, few scholars working in the field have made sustained inquiries into the historical particular- ity of the phenomenon across different sites. Arguing that settler statehood […]
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Satadru Sen, ‘Re-Orienting Whiteness, and: The Limits of British Colonial Control in South Asia: Spaces of Disorder in the Indian Ocean Region’ (review), Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 11, 3 (2010). Excerpts: Both volumes reviewed here take off from what has now become a familiar launching point for studies of whiteness: Ann Stoler’s contention […]
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