Archive for the ‘Scholarship and insights’ Category
Libby Porter, Unlearning the Colonial Cultures of Planning (Farnham/Burlington: Ashgate, 2010). Colonialization has never failed to provoke discussion and debate over its territorial, economic and political projects, and their ongoing consequences. This work argues that the state-based activity of planning was integral to these projects in conceptualizing, shaping and managing place in settler societies. Planning […]
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Tahlia Maslin, ‘Aboriginal Relations and Policy in Australia and Canada: From Handout to Hand-up’, Frontier Centre for Public Policy Backgrounder 85 (2010). via indigenouspeoplesissues Abstract: The Australian referendum of 1967 approved amendments to the Australian Constitution which allowed the Federal Government to make special laws that applied to Aboriginal Australians. As a result, since 1967, […]
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Some highlights from the latest Urban History Review 38, 2 (2010), with the special topic of ‘Encounters, Contests and Communities’. Franca Iacovetta and Jordan Stanger-Ross, ‘Intro: Encounters, Contests, Communities: New Histories of Race and Ethnicity in the Canadian City’. Penelope Edmonds, ‘Unpacking Settler Colonialism’s Urban Strategies: Indigenous Peoples in Victoria, BC, and the Transition to […]
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Kirstin Norget, ‘A cacophony of authochtony: representing indigeneity in Oaxacan popular mobilisaton’, The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 15(1): 116 – 143 via indigenous peoples issues and resources Abstract: Este artículo examina la movilización popular y social en Oaxaca, México a través del ejemplo del movimiento de la Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos […]
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David Fautsch, ‘An Analysis of Article 28 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and Proposals for Reform’, Michigan Journal of International Law 31, 2 (2010). via TurtleTalk TOC: Introduction………………………………………………………………………….. 450 I. Article 28 in the Courts: A Theoretical Analysis ……. 454 A. Repeat Players and One-Shotters……………………………….. 454 B. Article 28 […]
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Noel Parker, ‘Empire as Geopolitical Figure’, Geopolitics 15, 1 (2010). Abstract: This article analyses the ingredients of empire as a pattern of order with geopolitical effects. Noting the imperial form’s proclivity for expansion from a critical reading of historical sociology, the article argues that the principal manifestation of earlier geopolitics lay not in the nation […]
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David S. Trigger and Cameo Dalley, ‘Negotiating Indigeneity: Culture, Identity and Politics’, Reviews in Anthropology 39, 1 (2010). Abstract: Defining “indigeneity” has recently been approached with renewed vigor. While the field can involve quite passionate commitment to advocacy among scholars, theoretical clarity is needed in understanding just who might be thought of as indigenous, and […]
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Desmond Manderson, ‘Not Yet: Aboriginal People and the Deferral of the Rule of Law’, Arena, October 2009. From the ‘War on Terror’ to Malaya and Pakistan the language of ‘emergency’ has been used to suspend legal principles. Closer to home, legislation enacted in August 2007 has profoundly changed the treatment of large numbers of Aboriginal […]
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Jeanne M. Penvenne, Review Article: Valdemir Zamparoni. De escravo a cozinheiro: Colonialismo & racismo em Moçambique. Salvador: Editora da Universidade Federal da Bahia, 2007. Maps, illustrations, tables. 338 pp. no price listed (cloth), ISBN 978-85-232-0440-2. The book’s structure is essentially cross-chronological: four chapters, an introduction, a two-page conclusion, and a bibliography. Chapter 1 is the […]
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Margaret D. Jacobs, White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940, Univeristy of Nebraska Press, 2009. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, indigenous communities in the United States and Australia suffered a common experience at the hands of state […]
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