Archive for the ‘Scholarship and insights’ Category
Penny Edmonds has recently published Urbanizing Frontiers: Indigenous Peoples and Settlers in 19th-Century Pacific Rim Cities with UBC Press. From their website comes the following details: Colonial frontiers were not confined to the bush, backwoods, or borderlands. Early towns and cities in the far reaches of empire were crucial to the settler colonial project. The […]
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Some more details about the round table on settler colonialism at the University of Technology, Sydney (3 May 2010) have come to hand. Have a read through the abstracts: Dr. Lorenzo Veracini Queen Elizabeth II Fellow Institute for Social Research Swinburne University of Technology Decolonising Settler Colonialism This paper contributes to interdisciplinary reflection on decolonisation […]
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Federico Settler, ‘Indigenous Authorities and the post-colonial state: the domestication of indigeneity and African nationalism in South Africa’, Social Dynamics 36, 1, 2010. Abstract: Since the advent of the African Union, confidence in Africa’s renaissance has been high, but a number of state-civil society anxieties continue to challenge stable social relations. One area of anxiety […]
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The symposium “Gender and Settler Colonialism” was held last friday at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies, North Melbourne. To get an idea of the areas covered, have a look at the program. Keynote: Angela Wanhalla, ‘Intimate Moments, Racial Pasts, Colonial Histories’ Chair: Kat Ellinghaus ‘Intimacy, Space and Types/Representations of Indigenous Women’ Chair: Lynette Russell Penelope […]
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From Douglas H. Johnson, “Mamdani’s ‘Settlers’, ‘Natives’, and the War on Terror”, African Affairs 108, 433 (2009): Mamdani extends his South African paradigm, first proposed in his award-winning Citizen and Subject and further elaborated in When Victims Become Killers, to Sudan, whereby the colonial power is said to have imposed a divide between ‘settlers’ and ‘natives’ […]
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Provocative scholar of government and race in colonial and postcolonial Africa, Mahmood Mamdani, has recently published a new book, entitled Saviours and Survivors: Darfur, Politics and the War on Terror. Writes Verso Press: Saviours and Survivors is the first account of the Darfur crisis to consider recent events within the broad context of Sudan’s history, […]
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Tim Rowse and Len Smith, “The Limits of ‘Elimination’ in the Politics of Population”, Australian Historical Studies 41, 1 (2010): Abstract Has Australian colonisation tended to ‘eliminate’ the Indigenous presence? The Australian government did not enact the logic of elimination—by ceasing to enumerate people as Indigenous Australians—when the referendum in 1967 showed popular support for […]
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zizek on avatar
Slavoj Zizek, “Return of the Natives”, From New Statesman: Avatar’s fidelity to the old formula of creating a couple, its full trust in fantasy, and its story of a white man marrying the aboriginal princess and becoming king, make it ideologically a rather conservative, old-fashioned film. Its technical brilliance serves to cover up this basic […]
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Mark Finnane and Fiona Paisley, “Police Violence and the Limits of Law on a Late Colonial Frontier”, Law and History Review 28, 2010. ABSTRACT: The dependence of colonization on police was a core feature both of settler colonies and of colonial dependencies, from the middle of the nineteenth century to the post–World War I decline […]
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Lauren Benton and Benjamin Straumann, “Acquiring Empire by Law: From Roman Doctrine to Early Modern Practice”, Law and History Review 28, 2010. ABSTRACT: What role did the Roman legal concept of res nullius (things without owners), or the related concept of terra nullius (land without owners), play in the context of early modern European expansion? […]
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