Archive for the ‘Political developments’ Category
Defend the land! Sovereignty for Indigenous nations! Smash the state! We are anti-colonial.
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This from the ABC: The Department of Primary Industries (DPI) is prosecuting the Framlingham Aboriginal Trust for failing to control the rabbit population in the Deen Maar Indigenous protected area. The DPI alleges the trust has not complied with a land management notice. The matter has been adjourned to be heard in the Warrnambool Magistrates […]
Filed under: Australia, law, Political developments | Closed
Thought I might give an update on the AWB, since some of my other posts on the topic have got a lot of hits. This from Mail and Guardian: Former Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) general secretary Andre Visagie resigned to start a new organisation to fulfil a promise he made to the late party leader Eugene […]
Filed under: Political developments, Southern Africa | Closed
On the cards for a couple of years now, the South African government is (apparently) preparing to enact its Expropriation Bill. Yolandi Groenewald, from the Mail and Guardian: On Tuesday Beeld reported that Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson had proposed a new empowerment charter for agriculture requiring farmers to sell a 40% share of their farms and land […]
Filed under: law, Political developments, Southern Africa | 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
homelands
Homelands represent the intersection of specific areas of country… That is, they do not represent random settlements ‘where people go for a better lifestyle’ away from the larger communities created by non-Indigenous agents. In contrast, homelands represent particular living areas in which each Indigenous individual and group is based in order to fulfil their own […]
Filed under: Australia, Political developments, Southern Africa | Closed
ngapuhi case begins
A while ago I got whisper of an excitingly unique Maori claim launched by the Ngapuhi. Today I learn the case is getting under way today, via NZHerald: The Te Paparahi o te Raki inquiry is unique in that iwi members will argue that their ancestors did not cede sovereignty when the Treaty was signed […]
Filed under: law, New Zealand, Political developments, Sovereignty | Closed
A snippet from John and Jean Comaroff’s — as always, gripping — opening essay of their edited collection, Law and Disorder in the Postcolony (Chicago 2006): …there has certainly been an explosion of law-oriented nongovernmental organizations in the postcolonial world: lawyers for human rights, both within and without frontiers; legal resourcecenters and aid clinics; voluntary […]
Filed under: Africa, law, Political developments, postcolonialism, Quote, Scholarship and insights | 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 […]
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