Archive for the ‘Scholarship and insights’ Category
Paul Giles, ‘The Postcolonial Mainstream’, American Literary History 23, 1 (2011). In a review essay for this journal back in 2004, Malini Johar Schueller declared “that the suitability of postcolonial theory to the study of US culture should no longer be a subject of debate” (162). Arguing that “the period of critical isolationism and exceptionalism […]
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Knut G. Nustad,’Property, rights and community in a South African land-claim case’, Anthropology Today 27, 1 (2011) In the context of South Africa’s land reform programme, the concepts of ‘property’ and ‘rights’ carry a heavy ideological baggage. This is evident in the country’s land reform policies, which have sought to reach a compromise between differing […]
Filed under: law, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
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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Timo Koivurova, ‘Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights Regarding Indigenous Peoples: Retrospect and Prospects’, International Journal on Minority and Group Rights 18, 1 (2011) Abstract: Probably because there have been no landmark cases decided by the European Court of Human Rights (and the Commission) in favour of indigenous peoples, there has correspondingly been […]
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Paul W. Mapp, The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713-1763 (University of North Carolina Press: 2011). A truly continental history in both its geographic and political scope, The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire investigates eighteenth-century diplomacy involving North America and links geographic ignorance about the American West to Europeans’ grand geopolitical […]
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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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Comparative Studies in Society and History 53, 1 (2011), pp. 219–226. The field of settler colonial studies is attracting broad scholarly attention. Although it is comparative and transnational by definition, few scholars working in the field have made sustained inquiries into the historical particular- ity of the phenomenon across different sites. Arguing that settler statehood […]
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Satadru Sen, ‘Re-Orienting Whiteness, and: The Limits of British Colonial Control in South Asia: Spaces of Disorder in the Indian Ocean Region’ (review), Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 11, 3 (2010). Excerpts: Both volumes reviewed here take off from what has now become a familiar launching point for studies of whiteness: Ann Stoler’s contention […]
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Duncan Kelly, ed. Lineages of Empire: The Historical Roots of British Imperial Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. xv + 247 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-726439-3. Reviewed by Daniel Gorman (University of Waterloo) Published on H-Albion (January, 2011) Commissioned by Thomas Hajkowski excerpt: Despite work by scholars such as David Armitage, Uday Singh Mehta, Jennifer […]
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Robert Paul Hogg, ‘”A Hand Prepared to be Red”: Manliness and Violence on Britain’s Colonial Frontiers’, Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies 15, 1 (2010). Abstract On the frontiers of Queensland and British Columbia in the mid-nineteenth century, a culture of violence prevailed. Frontier men accommodated violence in their lives as a routine and normal part […]
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