Archive for the ‘Scholarship and insights’ Category
Why do so many individuals and organizations shy away from calling land grabbing what it is, and either put it in inverted commas or trot out such euphemisms as ‘responsible land-based investment’, ‘commercial pressures on land’ or ‘large-scale investment in land’? Why are researchers who have worked on land grabbing so apparently timid and complacent […]
Filed under: Africa, postcolonialism, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Highlights from the H-Net discussion network. Is this list an academic platform or a mediator for political propaganda and agitation? — … it seems still in accordance with an academic platform, unless I assume one consider’s the list of internationally/academically acknowledged speakers and chairs [both Palestinian and Israeli in fact] non-academic because they dont reiterate […]
Filed under: Israel/Palestine, Scholarship and insights, Website | Closed
is decolonisation dead?
“Is decolonization dead?” What does such a question mean? In what ways could decolonization be dead? That would be, it seemed to me, either the day when the colonized have thoroughly overcome colonization OR the day when the colonized themselves are all dead. Unless, of course, “decolonization” here refers simply to an academic fad whose […]
Filed under: Empire, Scholarship and insights, Website | Closed
symposium on ‘political authority, recognition, and the right of indigenous peoples’ published
The Good Society 19, 2 (2010) Breanna M. Forni, ‘Political Authority, Recognition, and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: An Introduction’, pp. 44-46. Burke Hendrix, ‘Political Authority and Indigenous Sovereignty’, pp. 47-52. Andrew Volmert, ‘Indigenous Self-Determination and Freedom from Rule’, pp. 53-59. Jorge M. Valadez, ‘Deliberation, Cultural Difference, and Indigenous Self-Governance’, pp. 60-65.
Filed under: law, Scholarship and insights | Closed
David Lloyd and Laura Pulido, ‘In the Long Shadow of the Settler: On Israeli and U.S. Colonialisms’, American Quarterly 62, 4 (2010). This forum discusses the comparative dimensions of settler colonialism in Israel and the U.S.-Mexico border region, including separation walls, issues of migration, and the control of movement, dispossession, and settlement. The contributions take […]
Filed under: Israel/Palestine, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Ken MacMillan, ‘Benign and Benevolent Conquest?: The Ideology of Elizabethan Atlantic Expansion Revisited’, Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 9, 1 (2011). This essay revisits the language of conquest in metropolitan writings advocating Elizabethan Atlantic expansion. It argues that contrary to the belligerent connotations scholars usually attach to the word conquest, in Elizabethan England it […]
Filed under: Empire, law, Scholarship and insights, Sovereignty, United States | Closed
Dan Freeman-Maloy, ‘Israeli state power and its liberal alibis’, Race & Class 52, 3 (2011). This article explores the tension between Israeli state power and its presentation to the West in ostensibly liberal terms. The historical dynamics of metropolitan sponsorship of Zionist settler colonialism are briefly discussed before focusing on the ways in which the […]
Filed under: Israel/Palestine, Scholarship and insights | Closed
In the current historiographical atmosphere, there seems little point for historians to continue pointing out the number of ‘ethnic’, ‘tribal’, ‘racial’ or ‘national’ groups within a confined space. In 1988, in what was quite clearly a re-iteration of a number of revisionist lines of enquiry that came before him, Martin Legassick claimed that all ‘attempts […]
Filed under: Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
aboriginal history 34 (2010)
Aboriginal History 34 (2010), available online at the ANU E-Press. Why didn’t you listen: white noise and black history Controlling marriages: Friedrich Hagenauer and the betrothal of Indigenous Western Australian women in colonial Victoria Shamrock Aborigines: the Irish, the Aboriginal Australians and their children Defining disease, segregating race:Sir Raphael Cilento, Aboriginal health and leprosy management […]
Filed under: Australia, Scholarship and insights | Closed
In recent years across a range of disciplines, empire has become a paradigm for rethinking a globalized world. In this context, the University of Aberdeen is pleased to advertise a number of Masters (fees only) and Doctoral (fees and partial maintenance) Studentships within a broader interdisciplinary project on the ‘Ideas, Practices, and Impacts of Global […]
Filed under: Empire, Scholarship and insights | Closed
settler colonial studies blog 