Archive for the ‘Scholarship and insights’ Category
Coming up in Melbourne soon is this symposium on gender and settler colonialism. I will certainly attend and hopefully post some reflections about it afterwards. Here is some info: Friday 19 March, 9.45am-5.15pm Institute of Postcolonial Studies (54 Curzon St, Nth Melbourne) Confirmed speakers and commentators include: Ann Curthoys (Sydney), Patricia Grimshaw (Melbourne), Lynette Russell (Monash), […]
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Lorenzo Veracini: Rezension zu: Isfahani-Hammond, Alexandra: White Negritude. Race, Writing, and Brazilian Cultural Identity. New York 2008, in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 26.02.2010. : Transference of cultural practices by close contact allows whites to write “black”, a move that, besides the ultimate (albeit one step removed) indigenisation of the Euro-Brazilian, enables another transfer: the disappearance of the black […]
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Ewout Frankema, “The Colonial Roots of Land Inequality: Geography, Factor Endowments, or Institutions?”, The Economic History Review, 2009. ABSTRACT Land inequality is one of the crucial underpinnings of long-run persistent wealth and asset inequality. This article assesses the colonial roots of land inequality from a comparative perspective. The evolution of land inequality is analysed in […]
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C. Drew Bednasek and Anne M. C. Godlewska, “The Influence of Betterment Discourses on Canadian Aboriginal Peoples in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries”, Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe Canadien 53, 4, 2009. ABSTRACT Based on government archival sources, fieldwork and the historical perspectives, experiences and oral histories of Aboriginal peoples, this paper argues […]
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Richard Phillips, “Settler Colonialism and the Nuclear Family”, Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe Canadien 53, 2, 2009: ABSTRACT Colonial societies revolved around nuclear families. Though they often seemed natural, universal and inevitable, colonial nuclear families were in fact produced through a series of laws and customs that regulated sex and marriage. These legal, social and […]
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In a recent hour-long podcast, two presentations are reproduced from a recent seminar “`Ike: Historical Transformations: Reading Hawaii’s Past to Probe Its Future”. It can be downloaded from Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond. The first is by Keanu Sai, a man whose work I have only recently discovered, and the second is […]
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Daniel M. Anderson, “Sexual Threat and Settler Society: ‘Black Perils’ in Kenya, 1907-30”, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 38, 1, 2010. Abstract: This essay deals with ‘black peril’ scares in colonial Kenya, reviewing the evidence of reported cases of sexual assaults to provide a detailed account of their social and cultural resonance for settler […]
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Berghahn Books has recently re-published the edited collected, A. Dirk Moses, ed., Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History. This collection of essays is rich in critical insight, and boasts of vast historical coverage. Its original appearance in 2008, I think, proved that the experimental fusion of genocide studies and colonial studies […]
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This from the latest edition of Native South, courtesy of IndigenousPeoplesIssues.com: Malinda Maynor Lowery, ‘Indians, Southerns, and Americans: Race, Tribe and Nation during “Jim Crow”‘: After the Civil War, Southerners of all races struggled to resolve questions of citizenship, opportunity, political autonomy, and freedom in a drastically changed economic environment. The story of Southern African […]
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From Interventions: The Journal of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies, 11, 3, 2009: Rebecca L. Stein, ‘Travelling Zion: Hiking and Settler Nationalism in pre-1948 Palestine’: This essay considers the political import of the hike or walk (ha-tiyul; plural, tiyulim) among Jewish settlers in Palestine during the first decades of the twentieth century. Situating this travelling […]
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