Archive for the ‘Scholarship and insights’ Category
Frankie Quinn and Gabbi Murphy, ‘Streets Apart: Photographs of the Belfast Peacelines’, Radical History Review 108 (2010) This issue’s “Curated Spaces” features the work of the Belfast photographer Frankie Quinn, with an introductory essay by Gabbi Murphy. The photographs included come from a series taken between 2002 and 2008 that documents life along the walls […]
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David Correia, ‘”Retribution Will Be Their Reward”: New Mexico’s Las Gorras Blancas and the Fight for the Las Vegas Land Grant Commons’, Radical History Review 108 (2010) This essay traces the struggle for the commons on New Mexico’s Las Vegas Land Grant, a community property claim in New Mexico. Following the U.S.–Mexican War, waves of […]
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Gary Fields, ‘Ex-Communicated: Historical Reflections on Enclosure Landscapes in Palestine’, Radical History Review 108 (2010) “Ex-Communicated” tells a story about enclosure on the Palestinian landscape through photographic images that reference themes from the enclosures in early modern England and highlight the historically long-standing interplay of power and space. Using Michel Foucault’s spatial notion of power […]
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Ben Maddison, ‘Radical Commons Discourse and the Challenges of Colonialism’, Radical History Review 108 (2010) The association among commons, rights, and freedom has been central to the radical historiographical tradition. This article investigates the origins and limitations of this association. First, it examines the evolution of the association among the three concepts, identifying the important […]
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Judy Rohrer, Haoles in Hawaii (University of Hawai’i Press: Honolulu 2010) Haoles in Hawai‘i strives to make sense of haole (white person/whiteness in Hawai‘i) and “the politics of haole” in current debates about race in Hawai‘i. Recognizing it as a form of American whiteness specific to Hawai‘i, the author argues that haole was forged and […]
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P. G. McHugh, ‘Sovereignty in Australasia: Comparatively Different Histories’, Legal History 13 (2009) No abstract; snipping here: The historiography of the Neglected Tribal Sovereigns and Missed Opportunity seeks to put Australian history onto an axis of what I will be calling competitive autonomies. This, as I explain below, is a history of the sovereign-self narrated […]
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Robert Foster and Amanda Nettelbeck, ‘THE RULE OF LAW ON THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN FRONTIER’, Legal History 13 (2009): In the 1830s the British Colonial Office insisted that Aboriginal people be regarded as British Subjects in the hope that the ‘rule of law’ would provide them with protection against the excesses of the settlers. This paper […]
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Margaret D. Jacobs, ‘Getting Out of a Rut: Decolonizing Western Women’s History’, Pacific Historical Review 79, 4 (2010). For over three decades, western women’s historians have been working not just to challenge male biases within western history scholarship but also to create a more multicultural inclusive narrative. Paradoxically, however, the overarching narrative of western women’s […]
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Rima Wilkes, Catherine Corrigall-Brown and Daniel J. Myers, ‘Packaging Protest: Media Coverage of Indigenous People’s Collective Action’, Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie 47, 4 (2010). Les personnes autochtones au Canada se sont lancées dans des centaines d’actions collectives. Utilisant la littérature sur les nouvelles et sur les événements collectifs, nous examinons d’une façon […]
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Ezequiel Mercau, ‘Abandoned Britons? The Sunningdale Agreement and Ulster Britishness’. MA Thesis, University College, Dublin, 2010. The Sunningdale agreement was a very important effort to establish power-sharing in Northern Ireland, the first one since the creation of the State. This dissertation charts unionist reactions from its emergence at the end of 1973 to its demise […]
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