Archive for the ‘Scholarship and insights’ Category
John R. Chávez, ‘Aliens in Their Native Lands: The Persistence of Internal Colonial Theory’, Journal of World History 22, 4 (2011) In the 1960s “internal colonialism” became an important theory advanced to explain the historical development of ethnic and racial inequality in the modern world. By the 1980s the theory had been dismissed as inadequate. […]
Filed under: Latin America, Scholarship and insights | Closed
why pioneers bred like rabbits; or, how genetic scientists discursively erase prior inhabitants
The notion that pioneers tend to have more babies is consistent with the behavior of other species. Expose a bare patch of land, and the first plants to colonize it will most likely be species that grow quickly, reproduce early, and create many offspring. But these early colonizers eventually cede space to other plants that […]
Filed under: Canada, Scholarship and insights, Science, United States | Closed
International Journal on Minority and Group Rights 18, 4 (2011). Special Issue: Contrasted Perspectives on Recognition and Implementation of Indigenous Rights. Ndahinda, Felix. ‘Contrasted Perspectives on Recognition and Implementation of Indigenous Rights’. Swepston, Lee. ‘Discrimination, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, and Social Indicators’ Courtis, Christian. ‘Notes on the Implementation by Latin American Courts of the ILO […]
Filed under: Human Rights, law, Political developments, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Lorenzo Veracini, ‘Book Review’, Ethnic and Racial Studies (2011). The Two Faces of American Freedom outlines the rise and fall of the US ‘experiment’ in settler constitutionalism. It is an ultimately convincing outline of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American history as the history of a settler colonial project. While this project and the conception of freedom […]
Filed under: Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Malreddy Pavan Kumar, ‘(An)other Way of Being Human: indigenous alternatives to postcolonial humanism’, Third World Quarterly 32, 9 (2011) This essay articulates the ways in which the Indigenous People’s Movement leading to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples (2007) succeeds in what postcolonial theory has conventionally set out to emancipate, […]
Filed under: postcolonialism, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Jimmy Johnson, ‘Lessons from the Other Occupiers: A critical engagement of #Occupy and J14’, Mondoweiss. The July 14th Movement and Occupy Wall Street efforts have deservedly garnered press attention. Much more importantly, they have mobilized huge numbers of people who had not been politically active previously and have radicalised others. These are ‘awakenings’ of a […]
Filed under: Israel/Palestine, media, Political developments, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Stumbled across this today, fresh of the press at the William & Mary Quarterly. Each contribution is available for free here. Critical Forum. Tomlins, Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865 Julia Adams, ‘Clear, Hold, Build: Patriarchy and Sovereignty in the Colonization of Early English America’. Tamar Herzog and Richard […]
Filed under: Empire, law, Scholarship and insights, Sovereignty, United States | Closed
Lesley Erickson, Westward Bound: Sex, Violence, the Law, and the Making of a Settler Society (UBC Press/Osgoode Society 2011). In the late nineteenth century, European expansionism found one of its last homes in the North American West. While the settlement of the American West was renowned for its lawlessness, the Canadian Prairies enjoyed a tamer […]
Filed under: Canada, law, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Edward Cavanagh, The Griqua Past and the Limits of South African History, 1902-1994 (Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang, 2011). The Griqua people are commonly misunderstood. Today, they do not figure in the South African imagination as other peoples do, nor have they for over a century. This book argues that their comparative invisibility is a […]
Filed under: Africa, Genocide, postcolonialism, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
Ian W. Campbell, ‘Settlement promoted, settlement contested: the Shcherbina Expedition of 1896–1903’, Central Asian Survey 30, 3-4 (2011). The Shcherbina Expedition of 1896–1903 was the Russian Empire’s most concerted effort to gather the data necessary to facilitate peasant settlers’ migration to its largely nomadic steppe oblasts. Although this expedition was a massive exercise of imperial […]
Filed under: Asia, Europe, Scholarship and insights | Closed
settler colonial studies blog 