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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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This is very intriguing, called the ‘Free Knowledge Project’. The words of Marc Pinkoski, founder: The linked concepts of “reconciliation” and “decolonization” are taking leading roles in conversations about the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the Canadian state. In particular, they have become a central focus of recent interpretations of Constitution Act, 1982 and Indigenous […]
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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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ethnohistory 58, 1 (2011)
killer new issue of ethnohistory; check it out here Coll Thrush: ‘Vancouver the Cannibal: Cuisine, Encounter, and the Dilemma of Difference on the Northwest Coast, 1774–1808’: Food is fundamental. As Felipe Fernández-Armesto has written, food “has a good claim to be considered the world’s most important subject. It is what matters most to most people […]
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Daniel Morley Johnson, ‘From the Tomahawk Chop to the Road Block: Discourses of Savagism in Whitestream Media’, American Indian Quarterly 35, 1 (2011) Typically, the news media have tended to portray Natives as a conquered people, a poor minority in a rich country, militant activists, remnants of an ancient North American past, and so on. […]
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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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Paul W. Mapp, The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713-1763 (University of North Carolina Press: 2011). A truly continental history in both its geographic and political scope, The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire investigates eighteenth-century diplomacy involving North America and links geographic ignorance about the American West to Europeans’ grand geopolitical […]
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The Alberta Court of Appeal has sided with the Alberta government and against the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in a case involving oil and gas rights. The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation argued that the Alberta Government through the Energy Minister can not grant resource rights in the form of long term oil sands leases without […]
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Robert Paul Hogg, ‘”A Hand Prepared to be Red”: Manliness and Violence on Britain’s Colonial Frontiers’, Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies 15, 1 (2010). Abstract On the frontiers of Queensland and British Columbia in the mid-nineteenth century, a culture of violence prevailed. Frontier men accommodated violence in their lives as a routine and normal part […]
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Tamari Kitossa and Katerina Deliovsky, ‘Interracial Unions with White Partners and Racial Profiling: Experiences and perspectives’, International Journal of Criminology and Sociological Theory 3, 2 (2010). Abstract Over the past decade racial profiling has received much scholarly and public attention. Our study explores the awareness, perspectives and experiences of the individuals in interracial unions with […]
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