Archive for the ‘Scholarship and insights’ Category
Christopher Tomlins, Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580-1865 (Cambridge University Press, 2010): Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America: a history of colonizing, work, and civic identity from the beginnings of English presence on the mainland until the Civil War. It is a history of migrants and […]
Filed under: law, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
A snippet from John and Jean Comaroff’s — as always, gripping — opening essay of their edited collection, Law and Disorder in the Postcolony (Chicago 2006): …there has certainly been an explosion of law-oriented nongovernmental organizations in the postcolonial world: lawyers for human rights, both within and without frontiers; legal resourcecenters and aid clinics; voluntary […]
Filed under: Africa, law, Political developments, postcolonialism, Quote, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Please enjoy these mp3 recordings of the papers delivered at the recent round table, ‘Settler Colonialism and the Colour Line’. Individual abstracts can be found here. Gaia Giuliani, Matching Colours Lorenzo Veracini, Decolonising Settler Colonialism Maria Giannacopoulos, Xenos, Nomos, Bia (temporarily unavailable) Kiran Grewal, The Native versus the Alien: Discourses of Belonging and the Reinforcement […]
Filed under: Australia, law, media, Political developments, postcolonialism, public lecture, Scholarship and insights, Sovereignty, Website | Closed
Cultural Studies Review, vol. 15 no. 2 September 2009. Line-up: Editorial—JOHN FROW & KATRINA SCHLUNKE Critical Indigenous Theory —Co-editor AILEEN MORETON-ROBINSON Introduction—AILEEN MORETON-ROBINSON ‘In the City of Blinding Lights’: Indigeneity, Cultural Studies and the Errants of Colonial Nostalgia—JODI A. BYRD ‘There is Nothing that Identifies Me to that Place’: Indigenous Women’s Perceptions of Health Spaces […]
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Zeev Sternhell, ”In Defence of Liberal Zionism’ (a review of Piterberg’s Returns of Zionism), New Left Review 62 March 2010. Selections: The aim of The Returns of Zionism is clear, and Piterberg does not hide it: the total de-legitimization of the Jewish nation-state founded in Palestine. A quarter of a century ago, this idea had […]
Filed under: Israel/Palestine, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Maria Giannacopoulos, ‘The Nomos of Apologia’, Griffith Law Review, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2009. Abstract: On 13 February 2008, the newly elected Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, offered an apology to the Stolen Generations of Indigenous peoples – an apology he said he offered ‘without qualification’. His ‘unqualified’ apology, however, was crafted for the […]
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Corinn Columpar, Unsettling Sights: The Fourth World on Film (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010): Unsettling Sights: The Fourth World on Film examines the politics of representing Aboriginality, in the process bringing frequently marginalized voices and visions, issues and debates into the limelight. Corinn Columpar uses film theory, postcolonial theory, and Indigenous theory to frame her […]
Filed under: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
The Production of Colonial Historiography, Frankfurt University, Germany, October 4-5 2010. What Postcolonial Theory Doesn’t Say, University of York, UK, July 3-5 2010. Latin American Borderlands: New Frontiers in Race, Religion and the Arts, SFA, Texas, September 30-October 2 2010. Emerging Paradigms in Critical Mixed Race Studies, De Paul University, Chicago, November 5-6 2010. Exploring […]
Filed under: Call for papers, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Farid Farid, ‘Terror at the beach: Arab bodies and the somatic violence of white cartographic anxiety in Australia and Palestine/Israel’, Social Semiotics 19:1 (2009) 59 — 78. Abstract: Nearly six months after the horrific episodes of racist violence at Cronulla beach in Australia, Israeli artillery fire killed seven Palestinians on a northern Gaza beach. This […]
Filed under: Australia, Israel/Palestine, Scholarship and insights | Closed
The media frenzy over Eugene Terre’Blanche’s death has been a great source of interest over the past few weeks. It turned out to be remarkable for this blog, as I wrote a little piece on Mr. TB and the AWB over a month before his death. Sadly, no journalist (to my knowledge) thought it fit […]
Filed under: Africa, media, Political developments, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
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