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More on the easter island conflict, via BBC Police on Easter Island have evicted a group of indigenous people who had been occupying the grounds of a luxury hotel since last year. The group of Rapa Nui say the land on which the hotel was built had been illegally taken from their ancestors generations ago. […]
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scs update
Dear all, I have been between countries and computers frantically over the last few weeks, but the blog should return back to normal soon. Our first issue of the settler colonial studies (the journal) is coming along nicely and should be published and available online — in open access — in March. I will publish […]
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protecting the american home
which I found via this fantastic South-Asian-poco-blog, Chapati Mystery.
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easter island
At least 25 people have been injured during clashes between Chilean police and local people on Easter Island. Witnesses say police fired pellets as they tried to evict several indigenous inhabitants from buildings they occupied earlier this year. The Rapa Nui group say the buildings were illegally taken from their ancestors several generations ago. Easter […]
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Robert K. Hitchcock and Samuel Totten, ed., Genocide of Indigenous Peoples (Transaction: New Brunswick, 2011). An estimated 350 to 600 million indigenous people reside across the globe. Numerous governments fail to recognize its indigenous peoples living within their borders. It was not until the latter part of the twentieth century that the genocide of indigenous […]
Filed under: Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, Genocide, Latin America | Closed
ABC News: A group of economists says remote Indigenous communities can earn money by protecting their land. Professor Owen Stanley from Charles Darwin University wants companies and governments to offset their carbon footprints by paying communities to rehabilitate and protect land across northern Australia. Some similar programs already exist but professor Stanley says they are […]
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Actually placing “settlers” and “colonialism” in the same analytical field required overcoming a number of conceptual blockages. It took decades. The nineteenth century – the century of the “settler revolution” (see Belich 2009) – did not think that they could be compounded. Indeed the settler revolution had cleaved the two apart: Marx, who engaged […]
Filed under: Africa, Australia, Canada, Empire, Israel/Palestine, Latin America, New Zealand, Quote, Scholarship and insights, Seminar, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
strip-colonising atop uluru
Wow, I had no idea that this had even happened. May we say, the sooner this event gets handed over to the po-cos for destruction, the better ? Disgraceful – and ungraceful.
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Stephen Allen and Alexandra Xanthaki (ed.), Reflections on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2010) The adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the United Nations General Assembly on 13 September 2007 was acclaimed as a major success for the United Nations system given the […]
Filed under: Africa, Australia, Canada, Hawaii, Latin America, law, New Zealand, Pacific, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
American Quarterly 62, 3 (2010). Special Issue: Alternative Contact: Indigeneity, Globalism, and American Studies. Edited by Paul Lai and Lindsey Claire Smith.
Filed under: Empire, Hawaii, Latin America, New Zealand, Pacific, United States | Closed
