Archive for the ‘United States’ Category

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. […]


@ the University of Texas. From their website (and see also their forthcoming conference on decolonisation and Mexican independence): February 25-26, 2010 The focus of the conference is the British Empire during its “decade of crisis” between the end of the Seven Years’ War in 1763 and the passage of the Tea Act ten years […]


From H-Net: The Peter Lang Publishing Group is launching a new series entitled Nationalisms across the Globe. One of these volumes will focus on Native American nationalism. The volume’s editors welcome scholarly submissions from academics and researchers in the field. If interested, please consult the list of topics below and submit a query including a […]


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 […]


From H-Net: The University of North Dakota Institute for Borderland Studies Presents: The Great Plains, the Prairies, and the US/Canadian Border An international, interdisciplinary conference focused on the role played by the US-Canadian border in the American Great Plains and the Canadian Prairies. Call For Papers The US-Canadian border performs a paradoxical function: on the […]


Review article on native agency.