Archive for the ‘Scholarship and insights’ Category
Susan Hardman Moore, Pilgrims: New World Settlers and the Call of Home (Yale University Press, 2010). This book uncovers what might seem to be a dark side of the American dream: the New World from the viewpoint of those who decided not to stay. At the core of the volume are the life histories of […]
Filed under: Empire, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
The following is a response to Neve Gordon’s paper on ‘Democracy and Colonialism’, from Theory and Event. It has been written by Lorenzo Veracini, and only appears here. —- This is a promising proposal for a paradigm shift: colonialism and democracy are not incompatible – they actually are a necessary prerequisite of each other: “Notwithstanding the […]
Filed under: Israel/Palestine, Scholarship and insights | Closed
D’Arcy, Jacqueline. ‘The Same but Different’: Aborigines, Eugenics, and the Harvard-Adelaide Universities’ Tasmanian Historical Studies, Vol. 12, 2007: 59-90. Abstract: Norman B Tindale and Joseph B Birdsell visited Cape Barren Island (CBI) Reserve in January 1939, as part of the Harvard-Adelaide Universities’ Anthropological Expedition. The Expedition, it is argued, was the last major eugenic research […]
Filed under: Australia, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Some recent essays from borderlands I’ve been spruiking here contribute to a recent special issue of borderlands. Here is the abstract to the editors’ introduction: As Stuart Hall, following both Franz Fanon and Albert Memmi, has explained, identity is deeply imbricated with colonialism both for the coloniser and the colonised. Their cultures meet in what […]
Filed under: postcolonialism, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Darryl Leroux, ‘The Spectacle of Champlain: Commemorating Québec’, borderlands e-journal 9, 1 (2010) This essay examines the process of foundation through which Samuel de Champlain’s public image as the founder of Québec has been instituted both historically and during Québec City’s 400th anniversary commemorations in 2008. Through analyzing the official commemorative event, Rencontres, I demonstrate […]
Filed under: Canada, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Judy Rohrer, ‘Mestiza, Hapa Haole, and Oceanic Borderspaces: Genealogical rearticulations of whiteness in Hawai‘i’, borderlands e-journal 9, 1 (2010) We in the United States are living in a time of heightened racial awareness, tension, and conflict. One relevant area of research focuses on developing a more sophisticated understanding of whiteness, white identities, white privilege, and white […]
Filed under: Hawaii, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Tony Barta, ‘REVIEW ARTICLE Genocide and Colonialism from New and Old Perspectives’, borderlands e-journal 9, 1 (2010). A. Dirk Moses (ed), Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History, New York: Berghahn, 2008. John Docker, The Origins of Violence: Religion, History and Genocide, Sydney: UNSW Press, 2008. Robert Kenny, The Lamb Enters the Dreaming. […]
Filed under: Empire, Genocide, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Hussein Al-Rimmawi, ‘Spatial Changes in Palestine: from Colonial Project to an Apartheid System’, African and Asian Studies 8 (2009) 375-412 This paper addresses the socio-spatial impact of the Zionists’ colonial project in Palestine, including the replacement of the indigenous Palestinian people by Jewish immigrants. At present, the Palestinians, displaced or living in the remaining part […]
Filed under: Israel/Palestine, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
Eldred V. Masununguren and Simon Badza, ‘The Internationalization of the Zimbabwe Crisis Multiple Actors, Competing Interests’, Journal of Developing Societies (2010) This essay argues that key to the longevity and protractedness of the Zimbabwe crisis was the internationalization of a problem characterized by multiple definitions and multiple actors with multiple interests and strategies. To this […]
Filed under: Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
Neve Gordon, ‘Democracy and Colonialism’, Theory and Event 13, 2 (2010). For some time now I have been pondering the closely knit relationship between democracy and colonialism. Notwithstanding the widespread conception among democracy theorists that there is a contradiction between the two, in this paper I contend that colonialism has served as a crucial component […]
Filed under: Israel/Palestine, Scholarship and insights | Closed
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