Archive for the ‘Scholarship and insights’ Category
Mary N. Harris, ‘Irish Americans and the Pursuit of Irish Independence’, European migrants, diasporas and indigenous ethnic minorities, ed. Matjaz Klemencic, Mary N. Harris (Pisa: Plus-Pisa University Press, 2009). Abstract: This chapter examines the role of Irish Americans in supporting and initiating a range of political campaigns in Ireland since the early 19th century. Some […]
Filed under: Éire, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
In one of the most genteel families in Cape Town an Irishman is kept, for no other apparent purpose but that of improving the stock of the slaves. The children of this man are the fairest and handsomest slave children I have seen in South Africa. British Anti-Slavery propaganda, cited by Donal P. McCracken, ‘A Minority […]
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Jeffrey Glover, ‘Channeling Indigenous Geopolitics: Negotiating International Order in Colonial Writing’, PMLA 125, 3 (2010) Abstract Recent comparative approaches to early American studies have described the networks of literary exchange that linked colonial writing from different imperial contexts. Current methodologies should be expanded to account for the relation between colonial writing and indigenous forms of […]
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Martin Chatfield Legassick, The Politics of a South African Frontier: The Griqua, the Sotho-Tswana and the Missionaries, 1780–1840 (Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2010). This book publishes Martin Legassick’s influential doctoral thesis about the pre-industrial South African frontier zone of Transorangia. The impressive formation of the Griqua states in the first half of the 19th century outside […]
Filed under: Africa, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
Ulf Johansson Dahrea, ‘There are no such things as universal human rights – on the predicament of indigenous peoples, for example’, International Journal of Human Rights 14, 5 2010 Abstract: There is a gap between the normative ideas of universal human rights and social practice. This discrepancy in the human rights field is analysed in […]
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adrian guelke on the comparison between afrikaner nationalists and northern ireland unionists
Adrian Guelke, ‘THE FLEXIBILITY OF NORTHERN IRELAND UNIONISTS AND AFRIKANER NATIONALISTS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE’, Working Papers in British-Irish Studies No. 99, 2010 Abstract: A common feature of comparisons of Northern Ireland and South Africa prior to South Africa’s transition and the Northern Ireland peace process was the siege mentality of the dominant communities in the […]
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Brazilian historians are well familiar with the Brazilianists: American scholars who travel to the Latin American country’s archives looking, one might say, to encounter themselves as Americans. From her interesting H-Net review, ‘The Pitfalls of the Transnational Approach to Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States’, which looks at Seigel’s Uneven Encounters: Making […]
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Ethics and research I teach social science research methods and students learn that great care must be taken to prevent harming anyone in the name of research. In fact, if people are involved in a research project on our campus (as opposed to inanimate objects such as films or political speeches) then a review committee […]
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Andrew Dawson and Matthew Lange, ‘Dividing and Ruling the World? A Statistical Test of the Effects of Colonialism on Postcolonial Civil Violence’, Social Forces 88, 2, 2009 abstract To test claims that postcolonial civil violence is a common legacy of colonialism, we create a dataset on the colonial heritage of 160 countries and explore whether […]
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Christa Scholtz, ‘Land Claim Negotiations And Indigenous Claimant Legibility In Canada And New Zealand’, Political Science 62, 1 (2010) In 1973 Canada instituted a land claims negotiation policy. Records reveal that the government felt reasonably confident that Indian bands, on average, represented defined political actors with whom the federal government could engage in a negotiation […]
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