Archive for the ‘Scholarship and insights’ Category
The most recent Canadian Historical Review 93, 2 (2012) contains the Garneau Roundtable on John C. Weaver’s influential book, The Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-1900 (2003). For those indebted to Weaver for his incredible comparative history of settler colonialism, it is certainly worth checking out the views of Bill […]
Filed under: Australia, Canada, Empire, Latin America, law, New Zealand, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, Sovereignty, United States | Closed
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This is not merely racial profiling but the construction of particular racial, sexual and gendered hierarchies that enable Israel to be seen as ‘normal’ and ‘exceptional’ within Western governance practices. Airports in general are spaces where the state performs its sovereign power. In the case of Israel, a settler colonial state with historically shifting borders […]
Filed under: Israel/Palestine, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Lauren Benton. A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400–1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 340 S. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-88105-0; $26.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-521-70743-5. Reviewed by Eliga Gould; Published on H-Soz-u-Kult (June, 2012). For the most part, when Benton talks about empire and sovereignty, what she means is the fiduciary sovereignty […]
Filed under: Empire, law, Scholarship and insights | Closed
José Manuel de Prada-Samper, ‘The forgotten killing fields: “San” genocide and Louis Anthing’s mission to Bushmanland’, 1862-1863, Historia 57, 1 (2012). Mohamed Adhikari’s book The Anatomy of a South African Genocide is a synthesis of the research on the extermination of the San peoples of South Africa and aims to establish that such extermination must be considered […]
Filed under: Genocide, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
Karen Fox, ‘Globalising Indigeneity? Writing Indigenous Histories in a Transnational World’, History Compass 10, 6 (2012). In recent decades, Indigenous histories have been increasingly significant and growing areas of historical research in white settler societies such as Australia and New Zealand. These rich veins of historical enquiry have, for the most part, been explored within […]
Filed under: Australia, Empire, New Zealand, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Rebecca Hall, ‘Diamond Mining in Canada’s Northwest Territories: A Colonial Continuity’, Antipode (early view 2012). The Canadian diamond industry has been lauded as a new approach to resource extraction, one whose institutions are characterized by a greater attention to Indigenous rights and the environment. However, an institutional analysis obfuscates the terrain of unequal relations that […]
Filed under: Canada, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Alex J. Bellamy, ‘Mass Killing and the Politics of Legitimacy: Empire and the Ideology of Selective Extermination’, Australian Journal of Politics & History 58, 2 (2012). How do the perpetrators of mass killing legitimise their behaviour? This article examines the legitimation of some of the worst cases of mass killing in the past two centuries. […]
Filed under: Empire, Genocide, Scholarship and insights | Closed
We are interested in papers that address the following broad topics and themes: • The political economy of land grabbing • The discourse and contested meaning of “empty lands”, “unoccupied lands” or “underused lands” • The role of multinational corporations, sovereign wealth funds (notably from Europe and the Gulf States), private equity funds as well […]
Filed under: Africa, Asia, Call for papers, Political developments, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Havatzelet Yahel, Ruth Kark, and Seth J. Frantzman, ‘Are the Negev Bedouin an Indigenous People? Fabricating Palestinian History’, Middle East Quarterly 19, 3 (2012). In the last two decades, there has been widespread application of the term “indigenous” in relation to various groups worldwide. However, the meaning of this term and its uses tend to […]
Filed under: Human Rights, Israel/Palestine, law, Political developments, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Sasha Williams and Ian Law, ‘Legitimising Racism: An Exploration of the Challenges Posed by the Use of Indigeneity Discourses by the Far Right’, Sociological Research Online 17, 2 (2012) The disintegration of the British National Party (BNP) has removed the threat of the party securing a place in the political mainstream in the UK. But, […]
Filed under: Europe, Political developments, Scholarship and insights | Closed
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