“It was a strange kind of artificial place,” says Michael Donoghue, author of Borderland on the Isthmus: Race, Culture, and the Struggle for the Canal Zone. His father travelled through the zone during World War Two, and compared it to “a small southern town transplanted into the middle of Central America”. […] English was predominantly […]

Settler Colonial Studies, Vol. 4, No. 4 (2014)  is now available on Taylor & Francis Online.  editorial Marcelo Svirsky, ‘The collaborative struggle and the permeability of settler colonialism’. articles Henry Reynolds, ‘Action and anxiety: the long history of settler protest about the nature of Australian colonization’. Simone Bignall, ‘The collaborative struggle for excolonialism’. Jennifer Newman, ‘Radical […]

Richard Broome, ‘Doing Aboriginal history’, Agora 49, 2 (2014).  Aboriginal History emerged as a discipline in the 1970s. What is it? Why should it be done? How has it been done? How should it be done? What are the problems of doing Aboriginal history in various arenas? How might they be surmounted? Where is it going […]

ACLA 2015 Call for Papers: Settler Colonial Literatures in Comparison We are inviting papers for a seminar to be hosted at the American Comparative Literature Association’s 2015 Annual Meeting, in Seattle, Washington on March 26-29. This seminar explores how settler colonial studies contribute to our study of comparative literature, both within and beyond Anglophone settler […]

Amanda Nettelbeck, ‘“On the Side of Law and Order”: Indigenous aides to the mounted police on the settler frontiers of Australia and Canada’, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 15, 2 (2014).  The history of colonial policing has received considerable scholarly attention in terms of its function to extend and consolidate the legal jurisdiction of British […]

Daniel Stewart, ‘Indigenous people as equals?’, Legaldate 26 3 (2014). As the founding document of the nation, the Australian Constitution should, at a minimum, recognise Indigenous people as the first people of the continent. This article argues that Parliament’s cross-party support for a referendum on constitutional recognition of Indigenous peoples provides a timely opportunity for creating both […]

Jordana Rosenberg and Chi-ming Yang, ‘The Dispossessed Eighteenth Century’, The Eighteenth Century 55, 2-3 (2014). This Introduction to our special journal issue is organized around the concept and lived history of dispossession. Its immediate occasion is provoked as much by our current, post-2008 economic crisis as by the legacy of domestic and imperial enclosures in the British […]

Rachel Busbridge, ‘On haunted geography: Writing Nation and Contesting Claims in the Ghost Village of Lifta’, Interventions (Published online 11 Jul 2014). This essay explores the case of Lifta, a ‘ghost village’ located just outside of Jerusalem which has recently emerged as a poignant site of Israeli–Palestinian national contestation. The last remaining depopulated village from the 1948 […]

Andrew Gunstone, ‘Indigenous Stolen Wages and Campaigns for Reparations in Victoria’, Indigenous Law Bulletin 12, 8 (2013). During most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Australian governments developed a number of practices that ensured they  and their agencies controlled the wages, savings and benefits of Indigenous people. Today, these practices are known as the stolen wages […]

Samantha Jeffries and Philip Stenning, ‘Sentencing, Aboriginal Offenders: Law, Policy, and Practice in Three Countries’, Journal Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice/La Revue canadienne de criminologie et de justice pénale 56, 4 (2014). The statistical “over-representation” of Aboriginal people in the criminal justice systems (especially prisons) of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand is not disputed. Sentencing […]