Archive for the ‘Genocide’ Category
Mohamed Adhikari, ‘A total extinction confidently hoped for: the destruction of Cape San society under Dutch colonial rule, 1700-1795′, Journal of Genocide Research 12, 1 (2010) Abstract: San (Bushman) society in the Cape Colony was almost completely annihilated during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a result of land confiscation, massacre, forced labour and cultural [...]
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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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News from UCT press about a forthcoming book by Mohamed Adhikari, on San-trekboer relationships along the Cape frontier. Promises to be a timely offering into a neglected area of Southern African – and settler colonial – historiography.
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Tony Barta, ‘REVIEW ARTICLE Genocide and Colonialism from New and Old Perspectives’, borderlands e-journal 9, 1 (2010). A. Dirk Moses (ed), Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History, New York: Berghahn, 2008. John Docker, The Origins of Violence: Religion, History and Genocide, Sydney: UNSW Press, 2008. Robert Kenny, The Lamb Enters the Dreaming. [...]
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Mahmood Mamdani, ‘Responsibility to Protect or Right to Punish?’, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 4, 1 (2010) Abstract This essay argues that the new global regime of R2P bifurcates the international system between sovereign states whose citizens have political rights, and de facto trusteeship territories whose populations are seen as wards in need of external [...]
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Katherine Ellinghaus, ‘Biological Absorption and Genocide: A Comparison of Indigenous Assimilation Policies in the United States and Australia’, Genocide Studies and Prevention 4, 1 (April 2009): 59–79. Abstract: This article examines biological absorption (the imagined process by which indigenous identity would disappear through interracial sexual liaisons) and its relationship to the assimilation policies of the [...]
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Here are some snippets from an essay by James Hughes (LSE), published recently in the Routledge Handbook of Ethnic Conflict, and subsequently available online as an e-print: A persuasive case has been made for the colonial “land grabbing” origins of the modern conception of genocide. A pattern of genocide has emerged historically in places where [...]
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the irish famine was genocide?
Here’s an interesting little snippet from international lawyer Francis A. Boyle, found on AboriginalNewsGroup: While there are many legitimate subjects of debate surrounding the Famine, there is no doubt that the British Government committed genocide against the Irish People.
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From Douglas H. Johnson, “Mamdani’s ‘Settlers’, ‘Natives’, and the War on Terror”, African Affairs 108, 433 (2009): Mamdani extends his South African paradigm, first proposed in his award-winning Citizen and Subject and further elaborated in When Victims Become Killers, to Sudan, whereby the colonial power is said to have imposed a divide between ‘settlers’ and ‘natives’ [...]
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