Archive for the ‘Political developments’ Category
From BBC UK: Peru’s indigenous Amazon groups say they plan to launch their own political party ahead of elections next year. […] Peru’s large indigenous minority has historically had little representation in national politics. The new party will be called the Alliance for an Alternative for Humanity or APHU. […] “We want to seize the […]
Filed under: Latin America, Political developments | Closed
What’s wrong or right about skeleton-exhuming in the name of science? Alan G. Morris, ‘A bone to pick with politics’, The Star October 23, 2008 (from the inaugural lecture in the Faculty of Health Sciences delivered by Professor of Human Biology at the University of Cape Town): There is a myth among social scientists that because […]
Filed under: Political developments, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
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
Indigenous activists have criticised the United Nations for placing Australia’s convict sites on the World Heritage List. UNESCO has announced that 11 sites, including Port Arthur, Hyde Park Barracks and Fremantle Prison, should be preserved because of their “outstanding universal value”. Australia already has 17 World Heritage areas, but only two are buildings. The Tasmanian […]
Filed under: Australia, Political developments | Closed
via ABC online The Victorian Government has introduced legislation into Parliament that could take native title resolution out of the Federal Court. The framework would allow Indigenous groups to settle with the Government out of court, if they drop current native title claims and agree not to lodge future claims. The government says it could […]
Filed under: Australia, law, Political developments | Closed
Zuma’s new policy. But is it a type of indirect rule?
Filed under: Political developments, Southern Africa | Closed
Elleke Boehmer and Stephen Morton (eds.), Terror and the Postcolonial: A Concise Companion (Wiley-Blackwell 2009) Table of Contents: Introduction: Terror and the Postcolonial (Elleke Boehmer and Stephen Morton, University of Oxford and University of Southampton). Part I: Theories of Colonial and Postcolonial Terror: 1. The Colony: Its Guilty Secret and Its Accursed Share (Achille Mbembe, […]
Filed under: Africa, Asia, Empire, Israel/Palestine, Political developments, postcolonialism, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
From Waatea News: Taitokerau MP Hone Harawira, who chaired the Waitangi hui, says many people wanted to talk about the Declaration of Independence which preceded the Treaty of Waitangi, and about the constitutional issues being raised in the Northland claims now before the Waitangi Tribunal. “People talked in particular about the issue Ngapuhi is raising […]
Filed under: law, New Zealand, Political developments, Sovereignty | Closed
paradoxes of iroquois passports
From the pen of Felicia Fonseca, via Associated Press The team has maintained that traveling on anything other than an Iroquois-issued passport would be a strike against the players’ identity. But the British government wouldn’t budge in denying team members entry into England without U.S. or Canadian passports, keeping the Iroquois Nationals from competing at […]
Filed under: Canada, law, Political developments, Sovereignty, United States | Closed
teeming perilous hordes of carp
The discourse of foreign species management, and all its bells and sparkles: wading through it is as fun as it is disturbingly eery. SERENA DAI and JOHN FLESHER, ‘Single Asian carp found near Lake Mich’. ass. press. CHICAGO — An Asian carp was found for the first time beyond electric barriers meant to keep the […]
Filed under: Canada, media, Political developments, Quote, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
settler colonial studies blog 