Archive for the ‘Asia’ Category
Satadru Sen, ‘Re-Orienting Whiteness, and: The Limits of British Colonial Control in South Asia: Spaces of Disorder in the Indian Ocean Region’ (review), Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 11, 3 (2010). Excerpts: Both volumes reviewed here take off from what has now become a familiar launching point for studies of whiteness: Ann Stoler’s contention [...]
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Nicholas T. Luetzow, ‘Colonialism, Conflict, and the Religious Response’ (MSc Thesis: South Dakota State University, 2010) Abstract (Summary) Nearly every country has participated in colonization or has been threatened by colonization. Modeling the processes used by colonizers and the native reaction to colonization will further understanding of current international relationships and past conflicts. This study [...]
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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 [...]
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Ulf Johansson Dahrea, ‘There are no such things as universal human rights – on the predicament of indigenous peoples, for example’, International Journal of Human Rights 14, 5 2010 Abstract: There is a gap between the normative ideas of universal human rights and social practice. This discrepancy in the human rights field is analysed in [...]
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Andrew Dawson and Matthew Lange, ‘Dividing and Ruling the World? A Statistical Test of the Effects of Colonialism on Postcolonial Civil Violence’, Social Forces 88, 2, 2009 abstract To test claims that postcolonial civil violence is a common legacy of colonialism, we create a dataset on the colonial heritage of 160 countries and explore whether [...]
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Clare Anderson, ‘Colonization, kidnap and confinement in the Andamans penal colony, 1771-1864′, Journal of Historical Geography (in press), 2010. Abstract This paper explores practices of kidnap and confinement in the Andamans penal colony, for the period 1771–1864. It argues that during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries indigenous captivity was key to successful colonization. The British [...]
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Elleke Boehmer and Stephen Morton (eds.), Terror and the Postcolonial: A Concise Companion (Wiley-Blackwell 2009) Table of Contents: Introduction: Terror and the Postcolonial (Elleke Boehmer and Stephen Morton, University of Oxford and University of Southampton). Part I: Theories of Colonial and Postcolonial Terror: 1. The Colony: Its Guilty Secret and Its Accursed Share (Achille Mbembe, [...]
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Heejin Jun, ‘Formation of Modern Literary Field: Intersection of Gender and Coloniality in Korean History’, DPhil Dissertation, The University of Michigan 2010. Abstract: This dissertation begins with several questions regarding colonial modernity, gender and nationalism in colonial Korea. Why do some New Women, especially female writers, get memorialized as ideal models, and others do not? [...]
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