Archive for the ‘Scholarship and insights’ Category
Dominic O’Sullivan, ‘Democracy, Power and Indigeneity’, Australian Journal of Politics & History 57, 1 (2011) This article identifies a theoretical nexus between indigeneity and liberal democracy in three post-colonial contexts. Like democracy, the politics of indigeneity asks questions and makes assumptions about where power ought to lie and how it ought to be shared in […]
Filed under: Australia, Pacific, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Saree Makdisi, ‘Riding the Whirlwind of Settler Colonialism’, Victorian Studies 53, 1 (Autumn 2010) a bit of it: The structural logic leading to such catastrophes is precisely what Belich aims to uncover and retrace, though his book is ultimately more interested in colonial triumph than in the human catastrophes that have always accompanied it (of […]
Filed under: Empire, Scholarship and insights | Closed
…he seems to be claiming that ‘Indigenous Title’ is somehow different from ‘Aboriginal Title’ with the difference being that Indigenous Title is both an individual right as well as a communal one. turtletalk, on Louison v. Ochapowace Indian Band #71
Filed under: Canada, law, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Robert J. Miller and Micheline D’Angelis,’Brazil, Indigenous Peoples, and the International Law of Discovery’ (Working Paper: February 23, 2011). Abstract: The Doctrine of Discovery, viewed through the lens of six hundred years of international law, has shaped Brazil’s legal history and laws ever since 1500 when Portugal claimed first discovery of the territory. A […]
Filed under: Latin America, law, Scholarship and insights | Closed
William Jackson reviews OHBE’s two new additions, Migration and Empire, and Settlers and Expatriates. a bit of it: The structure of the book combines a regional and thematic approach. The four opening chapters deal with the three major destinations for British migration: Canada, Australia and New Zealand – plus ‘Africa South of the Sahara’. For […]
Filed under: Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, Empire, New Zealand, Pacific, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
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 […]
Filed under: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, postcolonialism, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Robert van Krieken, ‘Kumarangk (Hindmarsh Island) and the Politics of Natural Justice under Settler-Colonialism’, Law & Social Inquiry 36, 1 (2011). This article examines the impact of the application of apparently impartial principles of procedural fairness and natural justice on the construction of “authentic” and “inauthentic” knowledge of Aboriginal culture. It discusses the progression of […]
Filed under: Australia, law, Scholarship and insights | Closed
This is very intriguing, called the ‘Free Knowledge Project’. The words of Marc Pinkoski, founder: The linked concepts of “reconciliation” and “decolonization” are taking leading roles in conversations about the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the Canadian state. In particular, they have become a central focus of recent interpretations of Constitution Act, 1982 and Indigenous […]
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I wish that there were a more diplomatic way to say this, but the plain fact is that Obama, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, lied to the Tribal Nations Summit Conference, and to the world, on December 16. I do not relish raining on the parade of those who took Obama […]
Filed under: media, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
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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settler colonial studies blog 