Archive for the ‘United States’ Category
ethnohistory 58, 1 (2011)
killer new issue of ethnohistory; check it out here Coll Thrush: ‘Vancouver the Cannibal: Cuisine, Encounter, and the Dilemma of Difference on the Northwest Coast, 1774–1808’: Food is fundamental. As Felipe Fernández-Armesto has written, food “has a good claim to be considered the world’s most important subject. It is what matters most to most people […]
Filed under: Canada, Empire, Pacific, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Incredibly detailed and contextualised review of Lisa Ford’s Settler Sovereignty by Cambridge oracle Paul McHugh. Law and History Review (2011), 29: 313-316 a bit of it: Ford purposefully describes this as a predominantly legal story rather understating the impact of the huge socioeconomic and demographic changes that turned into steamrolling settler sovereignty. She could stress […]
Filed under: Australia, Empire, law, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Daniel Morley Johnson, ‘From the Tomahawk Chop to the Road Block: Discourses of Savagism in Whitestream Media’, American Indian Quarterly 35, 1 (2011) Typically, the news media have tended to portray Natives as a conquered people, a poor minority in a rich country, militant activists, remnants of an ancient North American past, and so on. […]
Filed under: Canada, media, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Paul Giles, ‘The Postcolonial Mainstream’, American Literary History 23, 1 (2011). In a review essay for this journal back in 2004, Malini Johar Schueller declared “that the suitability of postcolonial theory to the study of US culture should no longer be a subject of debate” (162). Arguing that “the period of critical isolationism and exceptionalism […]
Filed under: literature, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Here’s a teaser for the forthcoming settler colonial studies 1 (2011). ARTICLES Lorenzo Veracini: Introducing settler colonial studies pp. 1-12 Patrick Wolfe: After the Frontier: Separation and Absorption in US Indian Policy pp. 13-50 Scott Lauria Morgensen: The Biopolitics of Settler Colonialism: Right Here, Right Now pp. 51-75 Ivan Sablin and Maria Savelyeva: Mapping Indigenous […]
Filed under: Africa, art, Asia, Australia, Éire, Call for papers, Canada, Empire, Europe, gender, Genocide, Hawaii, Israel/Palestine, Latin America, law, literature, media, New Zealand, outer space, Pacific, Political developments, postcolonialism, public lecture, Quote, Scholarship and insights, Science, Seminar, Southern Africa, Sovereignty, United States | Closed
Paul W. Mapp, The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713-1763 (University of North Carolina Press: 2011). A truly continental history in both its geographic and political scope, The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire investigates eighteenth-century diplomacy involving North America and links geographic ignorance about the American West to Europeans’ grand geopolitical […]
Filed under: Canada, Empire, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Comparative Studies in Society and History 53, 1 (2011), pp. 219–226. The field of settler colonial studies is attracting broad scholarly attention. Although it is comparative and transnational by definition, few scholars working in the field have made sustained inquiries into the historical particular- ity of the phenomenon across different sites. Arguing that settler statehood […]
Filed under: Australia, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
huckabee on israel
Far from Iowa, likely Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee told a crowd of Jewish Israelis yesterday that he’d be just as mad as they are if anybody tried to kick him out of America the way Israelis are being asked to not build or live in disputed lands. “I cannot imagine as an American […]
Filed under: Israel/Palestine, Political developments, public lecture, United States | Closed
David Lloyd and Laura Pulido, ‘In the Long Shadow of the Settler: On Israeli and U.S. Colonialisms’, American Quarterly 62, 4 (2010). This forum discusses the comparative dimensions of settler colonialism in Israel and the U.S.-Mexico border region, including separation walls, issues of migration, and the control of movement, dispossession, and settlement. The contributions take […]
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Ken MacMillan, ‘Benign and Benevolent Conquest?: The Ideology of Elizabethan Atlantic Expansion Revisited’, Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 9, 1 (2011). This essay revisits the language of conquest in metropolitan writings advocating Elizabethan Atlantic expansion. It argues that contrary to the belligerent connotations scholars usually attach to the word conquest, in Elizabethan England it […]
Filed under: Empire, law, Scholarship and insights, Sovereignty, United States | Closed
settler colonial studies blog 