Archive for the ‘Canada’ Category
Many non-Indigenous activists recognize that as visitors on this land, we have an obligation to fight colonial institutions and work towards building relationships that contest and seek to transcend colonial power relations. What does it mean to challenge systems of domination and oppression in a neo-colonial context if, as a settler, one’s very presence on […]
Filed under: Canada, Political developments | Closed
contested terrain
From Contested Terrain: Aboriginal Land Petitions in New Brunswick. This website features a digital collection of petitions, written between 1786 and 1878, relating to land grants in colonial New Brunswick, in which either Aboriginal people are the petitioners or their land is the subject of attention. Little documentation exists in New Brunswick surrounding the early […]
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Penny Edmonds has recently published Urbanizing Frontiers: Indigenous Peoples and Settlers in 19th-Century Pacific Rim Cities with UBC Press. From their website comes the following details: Colonial frontiers were not confined to the bush, backwoods, or borderlands. Early towns and cities in the far reaches of empire were crucial to the settler colonial project. The […]
Filed under: Australia, Canada, Scholarship and insights | Closed
C. Drew Bednasek and Anne M. C. Godlewska, “The Influence of Betterment Discourses on Canadian Aboriginal Peoples in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries”, Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe Canadien 53, 4, 2009. ABSTRACT Based on government archival sources, fieldwork and the historical perspectives, experiences and oral histories of Aboriginal peoples, this paper argues […]
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Richard Phillips, “Settler Colonialism and the Nuclear Family”, Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe Canadien 53, 2, 2009: ABSTRACT Colonial societies revolved around nuclear families. Though they often seemed natural, universal and inevitable, colonial nuclear families were in fact produced through a series of laws and customs that regulated sex and marriage. These legal, social and […]
Filed under: Canada, gender, Scholarship and insights | Closed
2010: year of the metis
From the 2010 Metis National Council president’s address.
Filed under: Canada | 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
Adam J. Barker, “The Contemporary Reality of Canadian Imperialism: Settler Colonialism and the Hybrid Colonial State”, from American Indian Quarterly, Summer 2009. Abstract: My fundamental contention is this: Canadian society remains driven by the logic of imperialism and engages in concerted colonial action against Indigenous peoples whose claims to land and self-determination continue to undermine […]
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@ the University of Texas. From their website (and see also their forthcoming conference on decolonisation and Mexican independence): February 25-26, 2010 The focus of the conference is the British Empire during its “decade of crisis” between the end of the Seven Years’ War in 1763 and the passage of the Tea Act ten years […]
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From H-Net: The Peter Lang Publishing Group is launching a new series entitled Nationalisms across the Globe. One of these volumes will focus on Native American nationalism. The volume’s editors welcome scholarly submissions from academics and researchers in the field. If interested, please consult the list of topics below and submit a query including a […]
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