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lisa ford reviews james belich
American Historical Review: James Belich’s book is useful not just for scholars comparing settler societies but for everyone working on nineteenth-century North America or Australasia. Belich tells a compelling story about economic colonialism in the nineteenth century. In the process, he provides a remarkably accessible synthesis of recent historiography describing economic development in a region […]
Filed under: Australia, Canada, Empire, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
Renisa Mawani, ‘”Half-breeds,” racial opacity, and geographies of crime: law’s search for the “original” Indian’, Cultural Geographies October 17, 4 (2010 ) Abstract: Discussions of hybridity have proliferated in cultural geography and in social and cultural theory. What has often been missing from these accounts are the ways in which mixed-race identities have been forged, […]
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Edward Cavanagh, ‘Fur Trade Colonialism: Traders and Cree at Hudson Bay, 1713-67’, Australasian Canadian Studies 27, 1-2 (2009). abstract: Why has the historic Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) been considered a ‘non-colonial company’ by Canadian historians? Surely those inescapably colonial dyads of insiders/outsiders, rulers/subjects, and Europeans/Natives, suggest otherwise; and as such, we should try comparing it […]
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Yet to appear online this one, but some libraries might be subscribed. Australasian Canadian Studies 1-2 (2009) Cindy Blackstock, ‘Federation Dialogue: Is this our Canada? Is this our Australia? First Nations Child and Family Safety and Well-being in Two Commonwealth Countries’. Michelle Eady and Alison Reedy, ‘Crocodiles and Polar Bears: Technology and Learning in Indigenous […]
Filed under: Australia, Canada, Scholarship and insights | Closed
brock meets tecumseh
One of many Canadian reconstructions by C. W. Jeffreys, via canata.ca
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Stephen Allen and Alexandra Xanthaki (ed.), Reflections on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2010) The adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the United Nations General Assembly on 13 September 2007 was acclaimed as a major success for the United Nations system given the […]
Filed under: Africa, Australia, Canada, Hawaii, Latin America, law, New Zealand, Pacific, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
Amanda Nettelbeck and Russell Smandych, ‘Policing Indigenous Peoples on Two Colonial Frontiers: Australia’s Mounted Police and Canada’s North-West Mounted Police’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 43, 2 (August 2010), pp. 356-375. Abstract This article examines the ways in which colonial policing and punishment of Indigenous peoples evolved as an inherent part of the […]
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Kenichi Matsui, Native Peoples and Water Rights: Irrigation, Dams, and the Law in Western Canada (M-Q UP 2010); Hnet review here. Economic developments in irrigation, agriculture, and hydroelectric power generation in western Canada at the turn of the last century challenged the way Native peoples had traditionally managed the watershed environment. Facing rapidly expanding provincial […]
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Indigenous Law Journal 8, 1 (2010) Table of Contents: Bessie Mainville ‘Traditional Native Culture and Spirituality: A Way of Life That Governs Us Community Voices’, pp. 1-6. Kent McNeil, ‘Reconciliation and Third-Party Interests: Tsilhqot’in Nation v. British Columbia’, pp. 7-26. Emily Luther, ‘Whose Distinctive Culture – Aboriginal Feminism and R. v. Van der Peet’, pp. […]
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Ulf Johansson Dahrea, ‘There are no such things as universal human rights – on the predicament of indigenous peoples, for example’, International Journal of Human Rights 14, 5 2010 Abstract: There is a gap between the normative ideas of universal human rights and social practice. This discrepancy in the human rights field is analysed in […]
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