Archive for the ‘Scholarship and insights’ Category
Greg Grandin, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City, Macmillan 2010 In 1927, Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, bought a tract of land twice the size of Delaware in the Brazilian Amazon. His intention was to grow rubber, but the project rapidly evolved into a more ambitious bid […]
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Gelya Frank and Carole Goldberg, Defying the Odds: The Tule River Tribe’s Struggle for Sovereignty, Yale University Press, 2010. via Turtletalk An anthropologist and a legal scholar combine expertise in this innovative book, deploying the history of one California tribe—the Tule River Tribe—in a definitive study of indigenous sovereignty from earliest contact through the current […]
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After doing the same for the JCCH, I thought I’d do have a look at the feature articles published in the Journal of Imperialism and Commonwealth History as well. Interesting results (some unexpected). Comparative or transnational topics (total: 15) Comparative or transnational topics relating to ‘British world’ (total: 5) Comparative or transnational topics relating to […]
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Today I tabled up the topics covered in feature articles published by the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History since the start of 2007. There’s surprisingly little content relating to settler colonial histories, along with a number of other regional gaps as well. See for yourself: Comparative or transnational topics (total: 3) Comparative or transnational […]
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Mark Rifkin, Manifesting America: The Imperial Construction of U.S. National Space, Cambridge University Press, 2009. The expansion of the U.S. in the antebellum period relied on the claim that the nation’s boundaries were both self-evident and dependent on the consent of those enclosed within them. While the removal of American Indians and racism toward former […]
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Joe Singer, ‘The Original Acquisition of Property: From Conquest and Possession to Democracy and Equal Opportunity”, Indian Law Journal, forthcoming. via TurtleTalk Abstract: First possession is said to be the root of title but the first possession theory suffers from two major defects. First, land titles in the United States originate in acts of conquest, […]
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Larry J. Zimmerman, ‘”White People will Believe Anything!””: Worrying about Authenticity, Museum Audiences, and Working in Native American-focused Museums’, Museum Anthropology 33, 1 (2010) via indigenouspeoplesissues.com Abstract: The core argument of this opinion is that in museums focused on Native Americans, staff members must abandon colonial and stereotypic views about Native Americans. They also must […]
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Katherine Ellinghaus, ‘Biological Absorption and Genocide: A Comparison of Indigenous Assimilation Policies in the United States and Australia’, Genocide Studies and Prevention 4, 1 (April 2009): 59–79. Abstract: This article examines biological absorption (the imagined process by which indigenous identity would disappear through interracial sexual liaisons) and its relationship to the assimilation policies of the […]
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Arion T. Mayes, ‘These Bones are Read: The Science and Politics of Ancient Native America’, The American Indian Quarterly 34, 2 (2010). In lieu of an abstract, here is part of the introduction: Each Native American culture and nation has differing beliefs as to the treatment of human remains. Some are adamantly opposed to any […]
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Christopher Churchill, ‘Camus and the Theatre of Terror: Artaudian Dramaturgy and Settler Society in the Works of Albert Camus’, Modern Intellectual History 7 (2010), pp. 93-121. Abstract This essay examines Albert Camus’s considerable debt to Antonin Artaud. Camus was not only a dramatist, but he also employed dramaturgical techniques in his more famous fiction and […]
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