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Konstantin Kilibarda, ‘Lessons from #Occupy in Canada: Contesting Space, Settler Consciousness and Erasures within the 99%’, Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies 5 (2012). Under a slogan of ‘We are the 99%’, the #occupy movement has won praise for its bold reclamations of public space and for re-centring class analysis in North America. Despite this, however, [...]
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International Journal on Human Rights 16, 1 (2012). Special Issue: Indigenous Peoples’ Rights: New Perspectives. TOC: Mauro Barelli: ‘Free, prior and informed consent in the aftermath of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: developments and challenges ahead’. Marco Odello: ‘Indigenous peoples’ rights and cultural identity in the inter-American context’. Kristin Hausler: ‘Indigenous [...]
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International Journal on Minority and Group Rights 18, 4 (2011). Special Issue: Contrasted Perspectives on Recognition and Implementation of Indigenous Rights. Ndahinda, Felix. ‘Contrasted Perspectives on Recognition and Implementation of Indigenous Rights’. Swepston, Lee. ‘Discrimination, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, and Social Indicators’ Courtis, Christian. ‘Notes on the Implementation by Latin American Courts of the ILO [...]
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Ruth Hall provides a sound critical appraisal of this report in Another Countryside: The new Green Paper on Land Reform offers little policy direction for the important but controversial work of land reform. It was the culmination of a long, hotly debated policy process which started with government’s acknowledgement at the National Land Summit in [...]
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Jimmy Johnson, ‘Lessons from the Other Occupiers: A critical engagement of #Occupy and J14′, Mondoweiss. The July 14th Movement and Occupy Wall Street efforts have deservedly garnered press attention. Much more importantly, they have mobilized huge numbers of people who had not been politically active previously and have radicalised others. These are ‘awakenings’ of a [...]
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wall street’s real natives
Newspaper Rock has collected a few indigenous perspectives, here and here. The omission of the realities of settler colonialism from this trendy little protest is ironic, he notes.
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700 people were arrested that day, several of them Columbia students, in an ongoing national campaign that began three weeks ago on Wall Street, where hundreds of mostly young people have been camping out or showing up for daily demonstrations. Karla Jimenez of Columbia Spectator.
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happy birthday adam kok
Members of the Royal Griqua Tribe, which organised the event, were dressed in full regalia. Goab Bishop Kenneth Visser, a provincial leader of the Griqua Royal House, said it was of great significance to come back to the castle, where Adam Kok had once been imprisoned. “For us it means the freedom of the Griqua [...]
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scs 2, 1 (2011) out now
check it out here.
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Sarah Maddison and Morgan Brigg (eds), Unsettling the Settler State: Creativity and Resistance in Indigenous Settler-State Governance (Federation Press, 2011). Debates in contemporary Indigenous affairs rarely question the settler-state framework and its accompanying institutions and processes. This silence persists despite Indigenous efforts to engage the settler-colonial order through repeated calls for treaties, for constitutional change, [...]
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