Archive for the ‘media’ Category
Yep, I’m still stumped by the land grabs, investment, and extra-sovereign speculation taking place on the African continent – all at levels unprecedented since the winds of change. For more balanced perspective, try this from the NY Times: Across Africa and the developing world, a new global land rush is gobbling up large expanses of […]
Filed under: Africa, media, Sovereignty | Closed
use your imagination
A study in Nature journal shows that Denisovans co-existed with Neanderthals and interbred with our species – perhaps around 50,000 years ago. An international group of researchers sequenced a complete genome from one of the ancient hominins (human-like creatures), based on nuclear DNA extracted from a finger bone. and this, which wow: The study shows […]
Filed under: media, Science | Closed
easter island
At least 25 people have been injured during clashes between Chilean police and local people on Easter Island. Witnesses say police fired pellets as they tried to evict several indigenous inhabitants from buildings they occupied earlier this year. The Rapa Nui group say the buildings were illegally taken from their ancestors several generations ago. Easter […]
Filed under: Latin America, media, Political developments | Closed
From Waatea News Update: The head of a new demographic research unit wants the government to encourage young Maori families to move back from Australia. At yesterday’s launch of the National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis at Waikato University, Professor Natalie Jackson said for the first time in New Zealand’s history, fewer people are […]
Filed under: media, New Zealand | Closed
Traci Watson for National Geographic News: Five hundred years before Columbus sailed the ocean blue, a Native American woman may have voyaged to Europe with Vikings, according to a provocative new DNA study. Analyzing a type of DNA passed only from mother to child, scientists found more than 80 living Icelanders with a genetic variation […]
Filed under: Europe, media, Science | Closed
quick, colonise them!
Bare to the waist and sporting rings in their upper lips, these are the extraordinary first pictures of a tribe lost in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. The natives are totally unknown to anthropologists, speak an unrecognisable language and do not even have a name for themselves. Exotic. The wheels they are in motion: […]
Filed under: media | Closed
native title today in n$w
About 400 hectares of land at North Tuncurry will be developed for housing. The CEO of the Native Title Services Corporation, Warren Mundine, says hopefully this will be the first of similar agreements. “I think this is a good template that we can now take across the state of New South Wales,” he said. “We […]
Filed under: Australia, law, media | Closed
Held at Newberry Library, Chicago Becca Gercken, ‘Manifest Meanings: The Selling (Not Telling) of American Indian History and the Case of “The Black Horse Ledger”‘, The American Indian Quarterly 34, 4 (2010) In lieu of an abstract, here is a preview of the article. What is the value or perceived necessity—for an Indian or […]
Filed under: art, media, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
pin the racist tag on the pomo
One half of a debate in South Africa’s Mail and Guardian on white supremacy and understanding racist discourse: We are told that Cliff is not a “conscious racist”, in other words, that nothing Cliff could possibly say would persuade Mngxitama that his analysis is false. We are informed that what might appear (to someone less […]
Filed under: media, Southern Africa | 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 […]
Filed under: Canada, media, Scholarship and insights | Closed
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