Archive for the ‘Scholarship and insights’ Category
Keith D. Smith, Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance: Indigenous Communities in Western Canada, 1877-1927 (Athabasca University Press, 2009). Canada is regularly presented as a country where liberalism has ensured freedom and equality for all. Yet with the expansion of settlers into the First Nations territories that became southern Alberta and BC, liberalism proved to be an […]
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David C. Hawkes, ‘Indigenous peoples: self-government and intergovernmental relations’, International Social Science Journal 53, 167 (2010), 153 – 161. The right of self-determination of indigenous peoples within states often branches in two directions: (1) a drive for more autonomy for indigenous nations and (2) a demand for greater participation in the decision-making institutions of the […]
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An older article I stumbled across today: John Morrissey, ‘Geography Militant: Resistance and the Essentialisation of Identity in Colonial Ireland’, Irish Geography 37, 2 (2004). Abstract In recent years, a growing recognition of the interconnections (in addition to the conflicts) between the worlds of the coloniser and the colonised has enabled the construction of an […]
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john pickard on fences
John Pickard, ‘Wire Fences in Colonial Australia: Technology Transfer and Adaptation, 1842–1900’, Rural History (2010), 21:27-58 After reviewing the development of wire fencing in Great Britain and the United States of America in the early nineteenth century, I examine the introduction of wire into Australia using published sources only. Wire was available in the colonies […]
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Heejin Jun, ‘Formation of Modern Literary Field: Intersection of Gender and Coloniality in Korean History’, DPhil Dissertation, The University of Michigan 2010. Abstract: This dissertation begins with several questions regarding colonial modernity, gender and nationalism in colonial Korea. Why do some New Women, especially female writers, get memorialized as ideal models, and others do not? […]
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Jean M. O’Brien, Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England (University of Minnesota Press, 2010). Across nineteenth-century New England, antiquarians and community leaders wrote hundreds of local histories about the founding and growth of their cities and towns. Ranging from pamphlets to multivolume treatments, these narratives shared a preoccupation with establishing […]
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Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson (ed), Natural Experiments of History (Harvard University Press, 2010): Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can’t be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often considered to be the hallmark of the scientific method. This impossibility holds for any science concerned with the past. In addition, many manipulative […]
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Lynne Davis (ed.), Alliances: Re/Envisioning Indigenous-non-Indigenous Relationships (University of Toronto Press, 2010) When Indigenous and non-Indigenous activists work together, what are the ends that they seek, and how do they negotiate their relationships while pursuing social change? Alliances brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous leaders, activists, and scholars in order to examine their experiences of alliance-building for […]
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Victoria Kuttainen, Unsettling Stories: Settler Postcolonialism and the Short Story Composite (Cambridge Scholars Press, Feb 2010). The first study of the synergies between postcolonialism and the genre of the short story composite, Unsettling Stories considers how the form of the interconnected short story collection is well suited to expressing thematic aspects of postcolonial writing on settler terrain. […]
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Aziz Rana, The Two Faces of American Freedom (Harvard University Press, 2010). The Two Faces of American Freedom boldly reinterprets the American political tradition from the colonial period to modern times, placing issues of race relations, immigration, and presidentialism in the context of shifting notions of empire and citizenship. Today, while the U.S. enjoys tremendous […]
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