Archive for the ‘Australia’ Category
Robert K. Hitchcock and Samuel Totten, ed., Genocide of Indigenous Peoples (Transaction: New Brunswick, 2011). An estimated 350 to 600 million indigenous people reside across the globe. Numerous governments fail to recognize its indigenous peoples living within their borders. It was not until the latter part of the twentieth century that the genocide of indigenous […]
Filed under: Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, Genocide, Latin America | Closed
native title today in n$w
About 400 hectares of land at North Tuncurry will be developed for housing. The CEO of the Native Title Services Corporation, Warren Mundine, says hopefully this will be the first of similar agreements. “I think this is a good template that we can now take across the state of New South Wales,” he said. “We […]
Filed under: Australia, law, media | Closed
Robert J. Miller, Jacinta Ruru, Larissa Behrendt and Tracey Lindberg, Discovering Indigenous Lands: The Doctrine of Discovery in the English Colonies (Oxford University Press, 2010) This book presents new material and shines fresh light on the under-explored historical and legal evidence about the use of the doctrine of discovery in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and […]
Filed under: Australia, Canada, law, New Zealand, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
In Arena Magazine no. 107, Andrew Lattas and Barry Morris attribute to me the view that the current situation of Indigenous people, however one interprets it, is due to their ‘culture’. Nowhere have I said anything vaguely similar to this. One of my concerns has been precisely to show how totalising, bounded and fixed notions […]
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J. P. Greene (ed.), Exclusionary Empire: English Liberty Overseas, 1600–1900 (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Consisting of an introduction and ten chapters, Exclusionary Empire examines the transfer of English traditions of liberty and the rule of law overseas from 1600 to 1900. Each chapter is written by a noted specialist and focuses on a particular area […]
Filed under: Australia, Canada, Empire, New Zealand, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, ‘Convict Transportation from Britain and Ireland 1615–1870’, History Compass 8, 11 (2010) In 1787, the First Fleet was dispatched from the British Isles to find a penal settlement at Botany Bay, Australia. By this time, the British government had already experimented with convict transportation for over 160 years. The aim of this article is […]
Filed under: Africa, Australia, Empire, Pacific, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Bess Nungarrayi Price, ‘We need to change our law’, Australian Review of Public Affairs Oct. 2010. My mother and father were born in the desert. They lived their childhood out of contact with whitefellas. They were terrified when they first saw a whitefella. They taught me the Old Law that our people lived by. That […]
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Ben Maddison, ‘Radical Commons Discourse and the Challenges of Colonialism’, Radical History Review 108 (2010) The association among commons, rights, and freedom has been central to the radical historiographical tradition. This article investigates the origins and limitations of this association. First, it examines the evolution of the association among the three concepts, identifying the important […]
Filed under: Australia, Europe, Scholarship and insights | Closed
P. G. McHugh, ‘Sovereignty in Australasia: Comparatively Different Histories’, Legal History 13 (2009) No abstract; snipping here: The historiography of the Neglected Tribal Sovereigns and Missed Opportunity seeks to put Australian history onto an axis of what I will be calling competitive autonomies. This, as I explain below, is a history of the sovereign-self narrated […]
Filed under: Australia, law, New Zealand, Scholarship and insights, Sovereignty | Closed
Robert Foster and Amanda Nettelbeck, ‘THE RULE OF LAW ON THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN FRONTIER’, Legal History 13 (2009): In the 1830s the British Colonial Office insisted that Aboriginal people be regarded as British Subjects in the hope that the ‘rule of law’ would provide them with protection against the excesses of the settlers. This paper […]
Filed under: Australia, law, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
settler colonial studies blog 