Archive for the ‘New Zealand’ Category
P. G. McHugh, ‘Sovereignty in Australasia: Comparatively Different Histories’, Legal History 13 (2009) No abstract; snipping here: The historiography of the Neglected Tribal Sovereigns and Missed Opportunity seeks to put Australian history onto an axis of what I will be calling competitive autonomies. This, as I explain below, is a history of the sovereign-self narrated […]
Filed under: Australia, law, New Zealand, Scholarship and insights, Sovereignty | Closed
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
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
American Quarterly 62, 3 (2010). Special Issue: Alternative Contact: Indigeneity, Globalism, and American Studies. Edited by Paul Lai and Lindsey Claire Smith.
Filed under: Empire, Hawaii, Latin America, New Zealand, Pacific, United States | Closed
Christopher Hilliard, ‘Licensed Native Interpreter: The Land Purchaser as Ethnographer in Early-20th-Century New Zealand’, Journal of Pacific History 45, 2 (2010) Abstract Many of the cross-cultural intermediaries who figure in the New Zealand historiography operated in ‘middle ground’ situations. However, in New Zealand as elsewhere in the Pacific, intermediaries also had roles to play in […]
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Bronwen Douglas, ‘Terra Australis to Oceania: Racial Geography in the “Fifth Part of the World”‘, Journal of Pacific History 45, 2 (2010): Abstract This paper is a synoptic history of racial geography in the ‘fifth part of the world’ or Oceania — an extended region embracing what are now Australia, Island Southeast Asia, the Pacific […]
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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 […]
Filed under: Africa, Asia, Australia, Éire, Canada, Israel/Palestine, law, New Zealand, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
Avril Bell, ‘Being ‘at home’ in the nation: hospitality and sovereignty in talk about immigration’, Ethnicities 10(2), 236-256 The discourse of hospitality is widely used as a way of making sense of the relationships between ‘natives’ and ‘newcomers’ established by immigration. While at first glance this seems a generous and benign system of meaning to […]
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I have been following the recent Ngapuhi case in NZ, and have made a few comments on this blog about the matter here, here and here. I admit that I have been stabbing in the dark quite a bit, and unsurprisingly, I have made a few errors in my coverage. An experienced Maori lawyer, Joshua Hitchcock, […]
Filed under: Empire, law, New Zealand, Political developments, Sovereignty | Closed
settler colonial studies blog 