Archive for the ‘Scholarship and insights’ Category
From Postcolonial Studies, 13, 1 (2010): A. Dirk Moses, “Time, Indigeneity, and Peoplehood: The Postcolony in Australia”: Despite many differences between settler colonial states and the African successor states of the European empires, some important parallels are identifiable in the debates among their black intelligentsias. If in Africa and Australia the language of decolonization was […]
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call for papers: anzlhs law and history conference: owning the past – whose past? whose present?
From their website: The use and study of the past is constantly being refashioned and reinterpreted to construct meaning in the present, imparting understandings of a common but chaotic humanity. Because everyone and no one ‘owns’ history, the ownership of historical events and the right to speak of them remains deeply contested. What are the […]
Filed under: Australia, Call for papers, Canada, Empire, law, New Zealand, Political developments, Scholarship and insights, Sovereignty, United States | Closed
Scott Lauria Morgensen, “Settler Homonationalism: Theorising Settler Colonialism within Queer Modernities”, GLQ: A journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 16 (2010): Abstract: Settlement conditions the formation of modern queer subjects and politics in the United States. This essay newly interprets the settler formation of U.S. queer modernities by inspiration of Jasbir Puar’s critique of homonationalism. […]
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Adam J. Barker, “The Contemporary Reality of Canadian Imperialism: Settler Colonialism and the Hybrid Colonial State”, from American Indian Quarterly, Summer 2009. Abstract: My fundamental contention is this: Canadian society remains driven by the logic of imperialism and engages in concerted colonial action against Indigenous peoples whose claims to land and self-determination continue to undermine […]
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FEEGI’s biennial conference (Empire and Identity in the Early Modern World) is now only a couple of weeks away. From their website: The Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction (FEEGI) aims to encourage scholarship and collaboration across the boundaries of national histories and disciplinary frameworks. Members come to FEEGI from a wide range of […]
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The latest edition of Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies includes some pretty interesting reviews. District 9 (the 2009 film that director Neill Blomkamp insisted was not meant to convey a “political” message, but contains all sorts of settler colonial signposting) is given a roundtable review. Also, in the book reviews section, […]
Filed under: Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
Seminar topics this year include: Sexuality in the South Seas Critical Histories of Human Biology and ‘Hybridity’ in the Pacific The Antarctic Laboratory: Science, Culture, and Law The Atlantic World in a Pacific Field for more details, check the USYD School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry website.
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Laura J. Mitchell has published a brilliant monograph on the VOC, settlers, and natives in early Southern Africa. The book analyses contact, law and order, settler life, Khoisan resistance and Company authority all in one neat package – and is arranged beautifully. Congratulations to Dr. Mitchell for her fantastic monograph, and for her decision to […]
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I was made aware of the following book by a post at the Legal History blog. According to Susan Reynolds in her new book, the legal technique of acquiring land from certain individuals for the common good, from the Medieval period to around 1800, is one that is fruitfully compared across Europe and settler North […]
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This month has seen the release of Lisa Ford’s long anticipated monograph, entitled Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788-1836. When settlers assert sovereignty, argues Ford, the extension of their criminal jurisdiction to encompass the natives they colonised is just as important – perhaps more important – than any act of […]
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