Archive for the ‘postcolonialism’ Category
lalu on settlers, xhosa, myth-making, discourse, history, and a postcolonial critique of apartheid
Premesh Lalu, The Deaths of Hintsa: Postapartheid South Africa and the shape of recurring pasts (HSRC Press 2009). In 1996, as South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission was beginning its hearings, Nicholas Gcaleka, a healer diviner from the town of Butterworth in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, set off on a journey to retrieve […]
Filed under: postcolonialism, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | 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 […]
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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 […]
Filed under: Australia, law, media, Political developments, postcolonialism, public lecture, Scholarship and insights, Sovereignty, Website | Closed
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It took me a long time to realize that the difference between settler colonialism and franchise/metropolitan/regular-old colonialism was the hinge for what I’m trying to do with the relationship between the United States and Kenya in my dissertation. In a very complicated way, of course; the problem with Kenya settlers is that they thought they […]
Filed under: Africa, postcolonialism, 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
Federico Settler, ‘Indigenous Authorities and the post-colonial state: the domestication of indigeneity and African nationalism in South Africa’, Social Dynamics 36, 1, 2010. Abstract: Since the advent of the African Union, confidence in Africa’s renaissance has been high, but a number of state-civil society anxieties continue to challenge stable social relations. One area of anxiety […]
Filed under: Africa, law, postcolonialism, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
From Postcolonial Studies, 13, 1 (2010): A. Dirk Moses, “Time, Indigeneity, and Peoplehood: The Postcolony in Australia”: Despite many differences between settler colonial states and the African successor states of the European empires, some important parallels are identifiable in the debates among their black intelligentsias. If in Africa and Australia the language of decolonization was […]
Filed under: Australia, Empire, postcolonialism, Scholarship and insights | Closed
This smartly designed website is a hub for postcolonial thinkers in Melbourne and the world. It is worth checking out if you haven’t already. Their mission statement: The spectre of colonialism still haunts the world, despite assertions about the end of formal colonial control and the rise of democracy and universal human rights. The aim […]
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