Archive for the ‘Scholarship and insights’ Category
Catriona Elder, ‘Colonialism and Indigenous dispossession in Against the Wind‘, Continuum, Volume 24, Issue 3 June 2010, pages 399 – 409: This article undertakes a revisionist reading of the mini-series Against the Wind (1979) in order to explore the absence of a narrative of Indigenous dispossession. In doing so it seeks to explore the type […]
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Dear readers, I am pleased to announce that we have issued our first call for papers for our new, peer-reviewed, inter- and multi-disciplinary scholarly journal: settler colonial studies. It will explore a new theme every second issue, but will also present articles that don’t align with the theme, so long as they relate to the […]
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lalu on settlers, xhosa, myth-making, discourse, history, and a postcolonial critique of apartheid
Premesh Lalu, The Deaths of Hintsa: Postapartheid South Africa and the shape of recurring pasts (HSRC Press 2009). In 1996, as South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission was beginning its hearings, Nicholas Gcaleka, a healer diviner from the town of Butterworth in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, set off on a journey to retrieve […]
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Gregory D. Smithers, Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780s–1890s (routledge, 2009). This book combines transnational history with the comparative analysis of racial formation and reproductive sexuality in the settler colonial spaces of the United States and British Australia. Specifically, the book places “whiteness,” and the changing definition of what it […]
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Jessica R. Cattelino, ‘The Double Bind of American Indian Need-based Sovereignty’, CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Vol. 25, Issue 2, pp. 235–262. ABSTRACT This essay examines a double bind that faces indigenous peoples in the Anglophone settler states, the double bind of need-based sovereignty. This double bind works as follows: indigenous sovereigns, such as American Indian tribal nations, […]
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take the handle of this plow
The candidates for land titles were dressed in traditional costume and armed with a bow and arrow. After ordering a candidate to shoot his arrow into the distance, the presiding officer, usually the agent, would announce, “You have shot your last arrow.” The arrowless arches would then return to the tipi and re-emerge a few […]
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European emigrants and their descendants are all over the place, which requires explanation Alfred Crosby, Ecological Imperialism, 1986. And some other quotations that appear in the book: Yet, if we wield the sword of extermination as we advance, we have no reason to repine the havoc committed. Charles Lyell, Principles of Ecology, 1832. When civilized […]
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Benjamin H. Johnson and Andrew R. Graybill, eds., Bridging National Borders in North America: Transnational and Comparative Histories (Duke University Press 2010). Despite a shared interest in using borders to explore the paradoxes of state-making and national histories, historians of the U.S.-Canada border region and those focused on the U.S.-Mexico borderlands have generally worked in […]
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some recent reviews in the jich
By various authors. Books in review: Lineages of Empire: The Historical Roots of British Imperial Thought Edited by Duncan Kelly Economies of Representation, 1790-2000: Colonialism and Commerce Edited by Leigh Dale and Helen Gilbert The New Oxford History of New Zealand Edited by Giselle Byrnes
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Mark Hickford, ‘”Vague Native Rights to Land”: British Imperial Policy on Native Title and Custom in New Zealand, 1837-53’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 38, 2 (2010): 175 – 206. Abstract: What is often referred to as a common law doctrine of aboriginal or customary title neither underpinned imperial policies towards Maori property rights […]
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