Archive for the ‘Genocide’ Category
Katherine Ellinghaus, ‘Biological Absorption and Genocide: A Comparison of Indigenous Assimilation Policies in the United States and Australia’, Genocide Studies and Prevention 4, 1 (April 2009): 59–79. Abstract: This article examines biological absorption (the imagined process by which indigenous identity would disappear through interracial sexual liaisons) and its relationship to the assimilation policies of the […]
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Here are some snippets from an essay by James Hughes (LSE), published recently in the Routledge Handbook of Ethnic Conflict, and subsequently available online as an e-print: A persuasive case has been made for the colonial “land grabbing” origins of the modern conception of genocide. A pattern of genocide has emerged historically in places where […]
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the irish famine was genocide?
Here’s an interesting little snippet from international lawyer Francis A. Boyle, found on AboriginalNewsGroup: While there are many legitimate subjects of debate surrounding the Famine, there is no doubt that the British Government committed genocide against the Irish People.
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From Douglas H. Johnson, “Mamdani’s ‘Settlers’, ‘Natives’, and the War on Terror”, African Affairs 108, 433 (2009): Mamdani extends his South African paradigm, first proposed in his award-winning Citizen and Subject and further elaborated in When Victims Become Killers, to Sudan, whereby the colonial power is said to have imposed a divide between ‘settlers’ and ‘natives’ […]
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Provocative scholar of government and race in colonial and postcolonial Africa, Mahmood Mamdani, has recently published a new book, entitled Saviours and Survivors: Darfur, Politics and the War on Terror. Writes Verso Press: Saviours and Survivors is the first account of the Darfur crisis to consider recent events within the broad context of Sudan’s history, […]
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Berghahn Books has recently re-published the edited collected, A. Dirk Moses, ed., Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History. This collection of essays is rich in critical insight, and boasts of vast historical coverage. Its original appearance in 2008, I think, proved that the experimental fusion of genocide studies and colonial studies […]
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settler colonial studies blog 