Archive for the ‘Canada’ Category
aboriginal policy studies
aboriginal policy studies is a new online, peer-reviewed and multidisciplinary journal that, on a bi-annual basis, publishes original, scholarly, and policy relevant research on issues relevant to Métis, non-status Indians and urban Aboriginal peoples in Canada. We encourage the submission of articles by and for a wide audience of scholars, researchers, community activists, and policymakers. Though [...]
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Saliha Belmessous, ed., Native Claims: Indigenous Law against Empire (New York and Oxford: OUP, 2011). This groundbreaking collection of essays shows that, from the moment European expansion commenced through to the twentieth century, indigenous peoples from America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand drafted legal strategies to contest dispossession. The story of indigenous resistance to European [...]
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why pioneers bred like rabbits; or, how genetic scientists discursively erase prior inhabitants
The notion that pioneers tend to have more babies is consistent with the behavior of other species. Expose a bare patch of land, and the first plants to colonize it will most likely be species that grow quickly, reproduce early, and create many offspring. But these early colonizers eventually cede space to other plants that [...]
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Lesley Erickson, Westward Bound: Sex, Violence, the Law, and the Making of a Settler Society (UBC Press/Osgoode Society 2011). In the late nineteenth century, European expansionism found one of its last homes in the North American West. While the settlement of the American West was renowned for its lawlessness, the Canadian Prairies enjoyed a tamer [...]
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Katie Pickles, ‘Transnational History and Cultural Cringe: Some Issues for Consideration in New Zealand, Australia and Canada’, History Compass 9, 9 (2011). This article draws upon my personal experience working across the boundaries of New Zealand, Canadian and Australian History. With attention to the British colonial past in these places I compare and contrast the [...]
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nadia kanani on race and madness
Nadia Kanani, ‘Race and Madness: Locating the Experiences of Racialized People with Psychiatric Histories in Canada and the United States’, Critical Disability Discourse 3 (2011). The intersectional social construction of race and madness has significantly shaped the lived experiences of racialized people with psychiatric histories. Unfortunately, there are few studies that consider the intersections between [...]
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scs 2, 1 (2011) out now
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laura landertinger on the biopolitics of indigenous reproduction and the welfare state in canada
Laura Landertinger, The Biopolitics of Indigenous Reproduction: Colonial Discourse and the Overrepresentation of Indigenous Children in the Canadian Child Welfare System (MA Thesis, Queens, 2011). From its inception, Canada’s ‘Indian policy’ has sought to undermine the bond between indigenous children and their communities. Each era has seen a new reason and corresponding tactic to remove [...]
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P.G. McHugh, Aboriginal Title: The Modern Jurisprudence of Tribal Land Rights (Oxford University Press, 2011). Aboriginal title represents one of the most remarkable and controversial legal developments in the common law world of the late-twentieth century. Overnight it changed the legal position of indigenous peoples. The common law doctrine gave sudden substance to the tribes’ [...]
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Emily Macgillivray, ‘Red and Black Blood: Teaching the Logic of the Canadian Settler State’. MA Thesis. (Queens University: Toronto, 2011). I examine Ontario history textbooks to demonstrate how the portrayal of the white settler fantasy of Canada being peacefully colonized and settled is enforced through the temporality and geography of the Canadian settler state, leading [...]
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