Archive for the ‘Sovereignty’ Category
Dear all, We are pleased to announce that the first issue of settler colonial studies is now available for your viewing. Check it out here. In this stage of its life, settler colonial studies is an online, open-access journal. There are may benefits of such a medium (among them, universally free access, and immediate registration [...]
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David A. Chang, ‘Enclosures of Land and Sovereignty: The Allotment of American Indian Lands’, Radical History Review 2011 This essay cautiously compares the dispossession of Native lands in the United States with the enclosure of the English commons, in light of the transfer of political sovereignty that occurred in the case it explores. The federal [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Yep, I’m still stumped by the land grabs, investment, and extra-sovereign speculation taking place on the African continent – all at levels unprecedented since the winds of change. For more balanced perspective, try this from the NY Times: Across Africa and the developing world, a new global land rush is gobbling up large expanses of [...]
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Audra Simpson, ‘Under The Sign Of Sovereignty: Certainty, Ambivalence, And Law In Native North America And Indigenous Australia’, Wicazo Sa Review 25, 2 (2010) In lieu of an abstract, here is a preview of the article. The notion of “sovereignty” is saturated with the certainty of jurisdictional and territorial authority over peoples and places. Yet [...]
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P. G. McHugh, ‘Sovereignty in Australasia: Comparatively Different Histories’, Legal History 13 (2009) No abstract; snipping here: The historiography of the Neglected Tribal Sovereigns and Missed Opportunity seeks to put Australian history onto an axis of what I will be calling competitive autonomies. This, as I explain below, is a history of the sovereign-self narrated [...]
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Shaunnagh Dorsett and Ian Hunter, ed., Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought: Transpositions of Empire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) A collection that focuses on the role of European law in colonial contexts and engages with recent treatments of this theme in known works written largely from within the framework of postcolonial studies, which implicitly discuss [...]
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Julie Evans, ‘Where Lawlessness Is Law: The Settler-Colonial Frontier As a Legal Space of Violence ‘, Australian Feminist Law Journal 30 (2009), 3-22. Part of the introduction: In understanding international law as a key legitimating discourse of colonialism, this paper argues the need to view settler-colonial frontiers within a conceptual field that directs as much [...]
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I have been following the recent Ngapuhi case in NZ, and have made a few comments on this blog about the matter here, here and here. I admit that I have been stabbing in the dark quite a bit, and unsurprisingly, I have made a few errors in my coverage. An experienced Maori lawyer, Joshua Hitchcock, [...]
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