Archive for the ‘Scholarship and insights’ Category
Bronwen Douglas, ‘Terra Australis to Oceania: Racial Geography in the “Fifth Part of the World”‘, Journal of Pacific History 45, 2 (2010): Abstract This paper is a synoptic history of racial geography in the ‘fifth part of the world’ or Oceania — an extended region embracing what are now Australia, Island Southeast Asia, the Pacific […]
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Writing a book chapter on mass media and American Indians brings sharply into focus our western love of science. I’m a believer, too. I love the clean lines of the scientific method, the deductive and logical journey to discovery. My colleagues who embark on studies of a more qualitative nature seem to meander along a […]
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Kenichi Matsui, Native Peoples and Water Rights: Irrigation, Dams, and the Law in Western Canada (M-Q UP 2010); Hnet review here. Economic developments in irrigation, agriculture, and hydroelectric power generation in western Canada at the turn of the last century challenged the way Native peoples had traditionally managed the watershed environment. Facing rapidly expanding provincial […]
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Robin A. Butlin, Geographies of Empire: European Empires and Colonies c.1880–1960 (Cambridge University Press, 2009). How did the major European imperial powers and indigenous populations experience imperialism and colonisation in the period 1880-1960? In this richly-illustrated comparative account, Robin Butlin provides a comprehensive overview of the experiences of individual European imperial powers – British, French, […]
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Peter J. Hugill, ‘The Shaping of an American Empire’, Journal of Historical Geography 36, 3, (2010), pp. 261-265 Abstract This paper creates a traditional, counterfactual, historical geography that proposes the rise of an American Empire in the 1800s instead of the British. The industrialization of the British world-economy of the early 1800s, victory in the […]
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Iain Davidson, ‘Australian Archaeology as a Historical Science: ‘A LECTURE BY THE RETURNING CHAIR OF AUSTRALIAN STUDIES, HARVARD UNIVERSITY 2008–09’, Journal of Australian Studies 34, 3 (2010), pp. 377 – 398 Abstract ‘Archaeologists make up stories about the past, but not just any stories.’ Archaeological stories are written principally from the interpretation of material remains. […]
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Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro, ‘Capitalist Expansionism, Imperialism, and the European Union’, State of Nature (2006) With so much attention by activists worldwide on current US imperialism, few have questioned the recent expansionism of the European Union (EU) and its continued neo-colonialist policies. What is worse, the EU has been treated as if it were a more […]
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Lyndall Ryan, ‘Settler massacres on the Port Phillip Frontier, 1836-1851’, Journal of Australian Studies 34, 3 (2010), pp. 257 – 273 Abstract This article addresses the vexed question of settler massacres of Aboriginal Victorians on the Port Phillip frontier 1836-1851. It argues for a new approach to the question by combining the models of Aboriginal […]
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Seth Korman, ‘Indigenous Ancestral Lands and Customary International Law’, University of Hawai ‘i Law Review 32 (2009-2010), pp. 391-463. In lieu of an abstract, here’s part of the introduction: The debate over the existence of customary law protecting the land rights of indigenous peoples is relatively new. While there is commentary and scholarship on the emergence […]
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Indigenous Law Journal 8, 1 (2010) Table of Contents: Bessie Mainville ‘Traditional Native Culture and Spirituality: A Way of Life That Governs Us Community Voices’, pp. 1-6. Kent McNeil, ‘Reconciliation and Third-Party Interests: Tsilhqot’in Nation v. British Columbia’, pp. 7-26. Emily Luther, ‘Whose Distinctive Culture – Aboriginal Feminism and R. v. Van der Peet’, pp. […]
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