Archive for the ‘Canada’ 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
Anne O’Connell, ‘An exploration of redneck whiteness in multicultural Canada’, Social Politics 17, 3 (2010). As Canada celebrates forty years of official multiculturalism (1971), a shifting urban/rural dyad (Neal) is central to its configuration. Its urban centers are positioned as diverse racialized spaces unlike their less diverse and more white rural counterparts. In this paper, […]
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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
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
via Native American Legal Update The Government of Canada today formally endorsed the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. John McNee, Canada’s Ambassador to the United Nations, met with the President of the United Nations General Assembly to advise him of Canada’s official endorsement of the United Nations Declaration.
Filed under: Canada, law, Political developments | Closed
Cole Harris, ‘The Spaces of Early Canada’, Canadian Historical Review 91, 4 (2010) Abstract: This article considers the relationship between the increasingly humanized spaces of early Canada and the patches of settlement that, at Confederation, were assembled into a country. It suggests that Harold Innis correctly identified some of the essential spaces of early Canada […]
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Elaine Freedgood, ‘Fictional Settlements: Footnotes, Metalepsis, the Colonial Effect’, New Literary History 41, 2 (2010) In lieu of an abstract, here is a preview of the article. I am going to argue that the nineteenth-century novel is anomalous using as an example an anomalous nineteenth-century novel. The anomalous novel, Catharine Parr Traill’s Canadian Crusoes (1852), […]
Filed under: Canada, literature, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Rima Wilkes, Catherine Corrigall-Brown and Daniel J. Myers, ‘Packaging Protest: Media Coverage of Indigenous People’s Collective Action’, Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie 47, 4 (2010). Les personnes autochtones au Canada se sont lancées dans des centaines d’actions collectives. Utilisant la littérature sur les nouvelles et sur les événements collectifs, nous examinons d’une façon […]
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Actually placing “settlers” and “colonialism” in the same analytical field required overcoming a number of conceptual blockages. It took decades. The nineteenth century – the century of the “settler revolution” (see Belich 2009) – did not think that they could be compounded. Indeed the settler revolution had cleaved the two apart: Marx, who engaged […]
Filed under: Africa, Australia, Canada, Empire, Israel/Palestine, Latin America, New Zealand, Quote, Scholarship and insights, Seminar, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
Shaunnagh Dorsett and Ian Hunter, ed., Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought: Transpositions of Empire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) A collection that focuses on the role of European law in colonial contexts and engages with recent treatments of this theme in known works written largely from within the framework of postcolonial studies, which implicitly discuss […]
Filed under: Australia, Canada, Empire, law, New Zealand, Scholarship and insights, Sovereignty, United States | Closed
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