Archive for the ‘Political developments’ Category
Arion T. Mayes, ‘These Bones are Read: The Science and Politics of Ancient Native America’, The American Indian Quarterly 34, 2 (2010). In lieu of an abstract, here is part of the introduction: Each Native American culture and nation has differing beliefs as to the treatment of human remains. Some are adamantly opposed to any […]
Filed under: law, Political developments, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Many non-Indigenous activists recognize that as visitors on this land, we have an obligation to fight colonial institutions and work towards building relationships that contest and seek to transcend colonial power relations. What does it mean to challenge systems of domination and oppression in a neo-colonial context if, as a settler, one’s very presence on […]
Filed under: Canada, Political developments | Closed
Leader of the Afrikaner Weerstandbeweging Eugene Terre’blanche has been murdered. According to the official newsreel of the AWB: It is with shock, dismay, frustration and the greatest of emotional pain that we were informed that our leader, Eugene Terre’Blanche was murdered on his farm Villanna (meaning “Home of Anna”) just outside Ventersdorp called around 17:00 […]
Filed under: Political developments, Southern Africa | Closed
The Zimbabwean phenomenon briefly touched upon in the post “Second Thoughts on Land Seizures in Southern Africa” is certainly a complex issue. Two important recent studies on the topic have surfaced in recent months. Ben Cousins and Ian Scoones, “Contested Paradigms of ‘Viability’ in Redistributive Land Reform: Perspectives from Southern Africa”, Journal of Peasant Studies, […]
Filed under: Africa, law, Political developments, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
One small, Cape Town property, once owned by whites but later transferred to the Zimbabwean state in a compensatory transaction, was yesterday returned to white ownership. The ruling is pretty important, not just for the touchy matter of postcolonial ethics, but also for the jurisdictional dilemmas now facing Zimbabwe and South Africa. The ruling emanates […]
Filed under: Africa, law, Political developments | Closed
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No race, creed or religion should endure the ridicule faced by Native Americans today. – National Congress of American Indians. Another hat tip to Mat A.
Filed under: art, Political developments, United States | Closed
“Natives and the Vanished Dignity”, From New Era, flashed via AllAfricaNews: For us to achieve the notion of ‘all people are equal’, the colonised must first be deliberately allowed to come at the same socio-economic level as the colonisers and their children, then we can start talking about equality as there can never be equality […]
Filed under: Africa, Political developments, postcolonialism | Closed
In a recent editorial for Vanguard (which also flashed up on AllAfrica News), Nigeria is called “A country of settlers”: The arguments are not about who settlers are and who are the indigenes, they are about the fact that Nigerians are now grappling with issues of citizenship. It is an issue that deserves handling with […]
Filed under: Africa, Political developments | Closed
From Douglas H. Johnson, “Mamdani’s ‘Settlers’, ‘Natives’, and the War on Terror”, African Affairs 108, 433 (2009): Mamdani extends his South African paradigm, first proposed in his award-winning Citizen and Subject and further elaborated in When Victims Become Killers, to Sudan, whereby the colonial power is said to have imposed a divide between ‘settlers’ and ‘natives’ […]
Filed under: Africa, Genocide, Political developments, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Provocative scholar of government and race in colonial and postcolonial Africa, Mahmood Mamdani, has recently published a new book, entitled Saviours and Survivors: Darfur, Politics and the War on Terror. Writes Verso Press: Saviours and Survivors is the first account of the Darfur crisis to consider recent events within the broad context of Sudan’s history, […]
Filed under: Africa, Genocide, Political developments, Scholarship and insights | Closed
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