Archive for the ‘postcolonialism’ Category
Emma Kowal of the University of Melbourne, sharing her provocative insights on ‘elimination’, exclusively for settler colonial studies blog: As Veracini argues in his provocative introductory essay to new settler colonial studies journal, if settler colonialism is logic of elimination, then the anticolonial response is Indigenous survival. Only when we stop wanting Indigenous people to disappear […]
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Lisa Slater, ‘Saltwater Cowboys: Life in a Time of Death and Destruction’, working paper, centre for muslim and non-muslim understanding. This paper begins at the Derby (western Kimberley, WA) bull rides, where young Aboriginal men compete to be champion bull riders – with the prize of a social status akin to an AFL football star. […]
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Brian Rutledge, ‘Premesh Lalu’s Post-colonial Push: Is it Time to Dismantle the Discipline?’, South African Historical Journal 63, 1 (2011) In The Deaths of Hintsa, Premesh Lalu argues that South African history remains trapped by colonial modes of thinking. As a necessary consequence, he claims that the field needs a post-colonial moment, suggesting that historians […]
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interventions 13, 1 (2011)
Between Subalternity and Indigeneity, ed. Bird and Rothberg Jodi A. Byrd; Michael Rothberg, ‘BETWEEN SUBALTERNITY AND INDIGENEITY: Critical Categories for Postcolonial Studies’. This introductory essay addresses the conditions for possible exchange between subaltern studies and indigenous and American Indian studies. It highlights the special significance of Spivak’s ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’ as an inaugurating moment […]
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reading group in melbourne
A new reading group is starting next week at the University of Melbourne for postgraduates, early career researchers and faculty. The group is named the Critical Postcolonialisms Reading Group and is beginning its program this year next Tuesday, March 1st. Details are available on their blog – http://criticalpostcolonialisms.wordpress.com/ – and through signing up to their newsletter.
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Dear all, We are pleased to announce that the first issue of settler colonial studies is now available for your viewing. Check it out here. In this stage of its life, settler colonial studies is an online, open-access journal. There are may benefits of such a medium (among them, universally free access, and immediate registration […]
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Here’s a teaser for the forthcoming settler colonial studies 1 (2011). ARTICLES Lorenzo Veracini: Introducing settler colonial studies pp. 1-12 Patrick Wolfe: After the Frontier: Separation and Absorption in US Indian Policy pp. 13-50 Scott Lauria Morgensen: The Biopolitics of Settler Colonialism: Right Here, Right Now pp. 51-75 Ivan Sablin and Maria Savelyeva: Mapping Indigenous […]
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Hlonipha Mokoena, ‘The Frontier Remix’, History and Theory 50, 1 (2011). In The Deaths of Hintsa: Postapartheid South Africa and the Shape of Recurring Pasts, Premesh lalu claims to offer a critique of apartheid’s colonial past. emblematic of this colonial past is the 1835 killing and mutilation of the Xhosa king Hintsa. lalu uses this […]
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Why do so many individuals and organizations shy away from calling land grabbing what it is, and either put it in inverted commas or trot out such euphemisms as ‘responsible land-based investment’, ‘commercial pressures on land’ or ‘large-scale investment in land’? Why are researchers who have worked on land grabbing so apparently timid and complacent […]
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Lorenzo Veracini, ‘The Settler Colonial Situation’, Native Studies Review 19, 1 (2010): This article interprets the settler-colonial situation as fundamentally premised on the irruption into a specific locale of a sovereign collective of settlers. A comprehensive body of historical and postcolonial literature highlights how the colonial situation is premised on the sustained reproduction of a […]
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