Six Native American tribes in the US state of Virginia are campaigning to win formal recognition from the federal government. The tribes claim they have been denied their proper rights – enjoyed by 565 other tribes in the US which do have official status – since a 1920s state law on “racial integrity” decreed that […]

Kristyn Harman, ‘Protecting Tasmanian Aborigines: American and Queensland Influences on the Cape Barren Island Reserve Act, 1912’, JICH (iFirst 2013). Early twentieth-century Tasmanian discourses about racial difference reflected trans-imperial connections between England, its colonies, and the United States. This globalised discourse and ideological interconnectedness in turn produced recognisably and intentionally similar policies, although historians bounded […]

The Palestinian national movement and the anti-colonial struggle Presented by Ran Greenstein Date:  Monday, 29 July, 2013 – 15:00   Seminars will be held in the WISER seminar room from 3:00 to 4:30pm. Participants must read the paper prior to the seminar. The paper will typically only be available on the Friday preceding the seminar. […]

Swinburne Institute for Social Research Democracy & Justice – Special Seminar Wednesday, 17 July, 13:00-15:00, BA912 (Hawthorn Campus) ‘Comparative Contemporary Frontiers’ Alex Young and Timothy Neale Two brief papers followed by discussion Discussant: Lorenzo Veracini ‘“Are Mexicans Indigenous?” Settler Colonialism as A Paradigm for The Study of The U.S.-Mexico Borderlands’, Alex Young, University of Southern California […]

WHEN President Jacob Zuma opened an exhibition in Cape Town recently commemorating the centenary of the Natives Land Act of 1913, he reaffirmed his government’s commitment to resolving the “land question” and declared that state-led land restitution remained key to the liberation of South Africa — echoing sentiments two decades old and just as catchy […]

Fred Hendricks, Lungisile Ntsebeza and Kirk Helliker (eds), The Promise of Land: Undoing a Century Of Dispossession in South Africa (Johannesburg: Jacana Press, 2013). The starting point for this book is that the current land reform policies in the country fail to take this colonial context of division and exclusion into account. As a result, […]

Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 15, 2 (2013), Special Issue: Indigeneity and Performance: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Helen Gilbert, ‘INDIGENEITY AND PERFORMANCE’. Jacqueline Shea Murphy, ‘CLEARING THE PATH: Contemporary Dance, Indigenous Methodologies and Michelle Olson’s Evening in Paris’. Helen Gilbert, ‘INDIGENEITY, TIME AND THE COSMOPOLITICS OF POSTCOLONIAL BELONGING IN THE ATOMIC AGE’. Therese Davis & Romaine Moreton, […]

Axel Stähler, ‘Constructions of Jewish Identity and the Spectre of Colonialism: Of White Skin and Black Masks in Early Zionist Discourse’, German Life and Letters 66, 3 (2013). Early Zionist discourse was ripe with constructions of a new Jewish identity. Discussing responses to the so-called Uganda plan of 1903–5 and notions of Jewish colonisation in […]

Swinburne Institute for Social Research Democracy & Justice – Special Seminar Wednesday, 17 July, 13:00-15:00, BA912 (Hawthorn Campus) ‘Comparative Contemporary Frontiers’ Alex Young and Timothy Neale Two brief papers followed by discussion Discussant: Lorenzo Veracini ‘“Are Mexicans Indigenous?” Settler Colonialism as A Paradigm for The Study of The U.S.-Mexico Borderlands’, Alex Young, University of Southern […]

Sarah Maddison, ‘Indigenous identity, ‘authenticity’ and the structural violence of settler colonialism’, Identities (iFirst 2013). In many ways, the structural violence of settler colonialism continues to dominate the lived experience of Indigenous populations, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in contemporary Australia. One aspect of this structural violence concerns the regulation of Indigenous identity, […]