Archive for the ‘Scholarship and insights’ Category
Unsettling Colonialisms: Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Resistance in Global Context. The collection will interrogate settler categories, including the category of settler colonialism itself. It will provide a space for Indigenous epistemologies to counter settler hegemonies, including established scholarly discourses on settler colonialism. It will critically engage with colonial discourses of conquest and Native alternatives alike. […]
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Erich Steinman, ‘Settler Colonial Power and the American Indian Sovereignty Movement: Forms of Domination, Strategies of Transformation’, American Journal of Sociology 117, 4 (2012). The article extends the multi-institutional model of power and change through an analysis of the American Indian Sovereignty Movement. Drawing upon cultural models of the state, and articulating institutionalist conceptions of political […]
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Caroline Phillips and Harry Allen (eds), Bridging the Divide: Indigenous Communities and Archaeology into the 21st Century (Left coast Press: 2012). The collected essays in this volume address contemporary issues regarding the relationship between Indigenous groups and archaeologists, including the challenges of dialogue, colonialism, the difficulties of working within legislative and institutional frameworks, and NAGPRA […]
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David McCallum, ‘Liberal Forms of Governing Australian Indigenous Peoples’, Journal of Law and Society 38, 4 (2011) This article considers three different historical events from the point of view of their connections to aspects of the history of liberal political reason: the actions of the British in New South Wales in the early nineteenth century […]
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Michael Sommer, ‘Colonies – Colonisation – Colonialism: A Typological Reappraisal’, Ancient East and West 10 (2011). Colonies, colonisation and, in particular, colonialism are concepts carrying heavy ideological subtexts – yet they loom over the current debate about the dynamism of the Iron Age Mediterranean. Forty years after M.I. Finley’s ‘attempt at a typology’, this paper […]
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Günther Schlee, ‘Review: Settler Colonialism: Politics, Identity, and Culture’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, forthcoming. It begins: Most of the twenty contributors to this volume work in departments of English or Literature, but this volume is also of great interest to sociologists, anthropologists and political scientists. I regret that, for this review, I can only single […]
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Books received: Carol Campbell and James F. Smith, Necessaries and Sufficiencies: Planter Society in Londonderry Onslow and Truro Townships, 1761-1780 (Sydney, NS: Cape Breton Press, 2011). 2011 marks the 250th anniversary of the coming of New England and Irish Planters to Nova Scotia. “Necessaries and Sufficiencies,” is a social political, cultural and material microhistory of […]
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janette habashi on palestine, guilt, unofficial histories and the israeli national narrative
Janette Habashi, ‘Colonial Guilt and the Recycling of Oppression: The Merit of Unofficial History in Transforming the State’s Narrative’, Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education 6, 1 (2012). This article juxtaposes colonial guilt with selective historical memory of Palestinian narratives as presented in the Israeli state-mandated history textbooks. The advancement of colonial guilt imposes a particular […]
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International Journal on Human Rights 16, 1 (2012). Special Issue: Indigenous Peoples’ Rights: New Perspectives. TOC: Mauro Barelli: ‘Free, prior and informed consent in the aftermath of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: developments and challenges ahead’. Marco Odello: ‘Indigenous peoples’ rights and cultural identity in the inter-American context’. Kristin Hausler: ‘Indigenous […]
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John Sandloss and Arn Keeling, ‘Claiming the New North: Development and Colonialism at the Pine Point Mine, Northwest Territories, Canada’, Environment and History 18, 1 (2012). This paper explores the history of economic, social and environmental change associated with the Pine Point lead-zinc mine, a now-abandoned industrial site and town in the Northwest Territories. Recent […]
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