Archive for the ‘media’ Category
The fuel-sucking RV – a direct descendent of the Conestoga wagon and voortrekker kakebeenwa – celebrates a hundred years in 2010. The formula hasn’t changed much: hop in, traverse the ’empty’ wilderness, pull up at that piece of untouched beauty (or national park), inhale ‘unbreathed’ air.
Filed under: media, United States, wacky | Closed
THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND words and music by Woody Guthrie This land is your land, this land is my land From California, to the New York Island From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters This land was made for you and me As I was walking a ribbon of highway I saw […]
Filed under: Israel/Palestine, media, Quote, wacky | Closed
mythology of eurocentrism
Reason Wafawarova, from the state-owned Zimbabwean newspaper, The Herald (via AllAfricaNews): European history, Western values, as well as Western democracy are all mythological concepts — they are pretty much a well-packaged set of propaganda designed to create in us a personality other than our own, a culture divorced from our own reality, and beliefs that […]
Filed under: media, Political developments, Southern Africa | Closed
Please enjoy these mp3 recordings of the papers delivered at the recent round table, ‘Settler Colonialism and the Colour Line’. Individual abstracts can be found here. Gaia Giuliani, Matching Colours Lorenzo Veracini, Decolonising Settler Colonialism Maria Giannacopoulos, Xenos, Nomos, Bia (temporarily unavailable) Kiran Grewal, The Native versus the Alien: Discourses of Belonging and the Reinforcement […]
Filed under: Australia, law, media, Political developments, postcolonialism, public lecture, Scholarship and insights, Sovereignty, Website | Closed
The media frenzy over Eugene Terre’Blanche’s death has been a great source of interest over the past few weeks. It turned out to be remarkable for this blog, as I wrote a little piece on Mr. TB and the AWB over a month before his death. Sadly, no journalist (to my knowledge) thought it fit […]
Filed under: Africa, media, Political developments, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
cowboys and aliens
via Newspaper Rock Soon to become a movie, starring Harrison Ford. No joke.
Filed under: art, media, wacky | Closed
via Africa is a Country Promised Land Trailer from Yoruba Richen on Vimeo.
Filed under: law, media, Political developments, Southern Africa, Sovereignty | Closed
zizek on avatar
Slavoj Zizek, “Return of the Natives”, From New Statesman: Avatar’s fidelity to the old formula of creating a couple, its full trust in fantasy, and its story of a white man marrying the aboriginal princess and becoming king, make it ideologically a rather conservative, old-fashioned film. Its technical brilliance serves to cover up this basic […]
Filed under: media, Scholarship and insights | Closed
The Northern Territory intervention has allowed the Australian government to experiment with ‘quarantined’ welfare provision – by rolling out ‘Basics cards’ – in the region. Today the ABC has published an interview in which the system is called ‘apartheid-like’ – although this type of rhetoric has been around since 2008 (see rollbacktheintervention). The comparison of […]
Filed under: Australia, media, Political developments, Southern Africa | Closed
Just last week, I posted on the topic of Noel Pearson and native title. Unfortunately, I had to rely on the ABC’s sources for the speech contents. Today I have discovered that the Cape York Institute has published a transcript of the speech online, and can be found here. I will post some clippings below […]
Filed under: Australia, law, media, public lecture | Closed
settler colonial studies blog 