Archive for the ‘Scholarship and insights’ Category
A Newcastle University Professor says there is much to learn from Europe’s indigenous entrepreneurs when it comes to small business and the economy. Professor Dennis Foley will spend several months in Ireland later this year, studying that country’s native community, known as the Travellers. His research will investigate the similarities between the Irish and Australian […]
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Joanna Cruickshank, ‘Race, History, and the Australian Faith Missions’, Itinerario 34 (2010). Abstract: In 1901, the parliament of the new Commonwealth of Australia passed a series of laws designed, in the words of the Prime Minister Edmund Barton, “to make a legislative declaration of our racial identity”. An Act to expel the large Pacific Islander […]
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Helen Bethea Gardner, ‘From Site to Text: Australian Aborigines and The Origin of the Family’, Itinerario 34 (2010). Abstract: Missions were not simply sites of modernity, they were also the source of key data for the modernist theories of human progress. The idea that so called “primitive peoples” provided a window to the origins of […]
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john french on the construction of self and other in south africa, australia and the united states
John Mark French, ‘Native, narrative, and nation: The construction of self and other in European settler colonies’. Ph.D. diss. (UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO, 2010). Abstract: A new theory is presented which uses the work of Michel Foucault to link the appearance of national identity to the development of the modem state. Drawing on thinkers […]
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Andrew Markus and Moshe Semyonov (ed.), Immigration and Nation Building: Australia and Israel Compared (Edward Elgar Publishing 2010). Contents: Introduction 1. Demography – Trends and Composition Karin Amit, Sergio Della Pergola and Allan Borowski 2. Immigration Laws Na’ama Carmi and Susan Kneebone 3. Integration into the Labor Market of Host Societies Yitzhak Haberfeld and Anne […]
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Damen Ward, ‘Legislation, Repugnancy and the Disallowance of Colonial Laws: The Legal Structure of Empire and Lloyd’s Case (1844)’, Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 41 (2010). Abstract: The imperial government had the ability to disallow New Zealand colonial ordinances that were “repugnant to the laws of England”. “Repugnancy” did not operate as a clear […]
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Carl J. Guarneri, ‘Mapping the Anglo-American Settler Empire’, Diplomatic History 35, 1 (2011). In the nineteenth century, British imperial spokesmen routinely referred to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa as “settler colonies,” where Britons migrated in large numbers, dominated indigenous peoples, and successfully transplanted European ways. The term distinguished these “white dominions” from colonial […]
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maori origins
TVNZ: A New Zealand historian says the idea of Maori being indigenous may need to be reconsidered. Research led by Janet Wilmshurst from New Zealand’s Landcare Research, and Atholl Anderson, from the Australian National University, suggests Maori first settled in New Zealand between 1210 and 1385 AD. That is in contrast to Maori genealogy, which […]
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PAST IS PRESENT: SETTLER COLONIALISM IN PALESTINE 7th Annual Conference 5- 6 March | Brunei Gallery | School of Oriental and African Studies – London organised by SOAS Palestine Society and hosted by the London Middle East Institute For over a century, Zionism has subjected Palestine and Palestinians to a structural and violent form of […]
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Thomas A. Koelbe and Edward Li Puma, ‘Traditional Leaders and the Culture of Governance in South Africa’, Governance 24, 1 (2011). Abstract The global neoliberal economic and political order impregnated the emergence of democracy in South Africa. One of the hallmarks of this order is that the capacity of the state to transform society is […]
Filed under: Political developments, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
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