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Native Land Talk: Indigenous and Arrivant Rights Theories (Yael Ben-zvi)
Get PDFYael Ben-zvi, Native Land Talk: Indigenous and Arrivant Rights Theories. Dartmouth UP, 2018. 276 pp. ISBN: 9781512601466. www.upne.cpm In Native Land Talk: Indigenous and Arrivant Rights Theories, Yael Ben-zvi employs EuroAmerican human rights theories to examine and compare the distinctive resistances of African and indigenous Americans to colonization. Delving into a rich array of resources—petitions, letters, newspaper articles, and speeches, among others--to examine EuroAmerican rights claims, Ben-zvi inventively applies these theoretical histories to the petitions and appeals for freedom and land made by indigenous and African American peoples in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (roughly 1760-1840). The author closely analyzes aspects of settler rights claims and indigenous and African American histories of resistance (or, as she terms them, “unsettlement projects”) that have received little scholarly attention, aligning the resistance of the latter communities with settler dehumanization and violence
The Savage and Modern Self: North American Indians in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture (Robbie Richardson)
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REVIEW ESSAY. Weaving the Present, Writing the Future: Benaway, Belcourt, and Whitehead's Queer Indigenous Imaginaries
Get PDFReview Essay: Gwen Benaway, Billy-Ray Belcourt, and Joshua Whitehea
The influence of Internet Social Media on Professional Practice: A Case Study of Perceptions of Foundation Dentists in Health Education England, Kent, Surrey and Sussex
Get PDFSocial mediais a popular, technology-led form of communication. It has a developing but contentious role in healthcare professional practice, attracting interest and opinion from official bodies, academic institutions and terrestrial and internet media. This project explored Health Education England Kent, Surrey and Sussex (HEE KSS) Foundation Dentists’ (FDs) perceptions of the influence of internet social media on their professional practice
creation stories: survivance, sovereignty, and oil in MHA country
Get PDFThe Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara Nation (Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold) is at ground zero of the Bakken oil boom. This paper explores the ramifications of exploiting that resource in relation to a traumatic recent past in which 153,000 acres of prime tribal real estate in the very heart of their ancestral homeland was appropriated under the auspices of the Pick-Sloan Plan by way of the Fort Berthold Taking Act of 1949. That land is now under the waters of Lake Sakakawea. The essay takes to heart Gerald Vizenor's notion that "all stories are creation stories"--even the stories that oil and water have to tell. In light of that, I include interviews with two members of MHA, who grew up with the legacy of the Taking and are now taking their place as leaders helping to shape--either through governance or constructive criticism--how the Tribes utilize the oil revenues in a way that is equitable, envrionmentally sound, and future oriented yet still grounded in traditional ways. These inerviews are supplemented by the legal scholarship of MHA member, Raymond Cross, who harkens back to the cultural genocide of the recent past in relation to the present circumstances of oil exploitation as a way to remind MHA, State and Federal governments that Tribal sovereignty is best protected when stewardship of the land base is the result of collaborative environmental policies, the soundness of which harkens back, in turn, to traditional values
American Apartheid: The Native American Struggle for Self-Determination and Inclusion (Stephanie Woodard)
No full textA review of Stephanie Woodard's American Aparthei
Article – On Feminist Legal Methodologies: Spilt, Plural and Speaking Subjects
Get PDFThis article uses Nicola Lacey’s 1998 book Unspeakable Subjects as a prompt to consider the potential of feminist jurisprudence to develop methodologies that focus on the foundational dimensions of law. I therefore explore possibilities for a feminist account of legal subjectivity that uses Lacey’s account of critique, utopias and reform to articulate three interlocking feminist methodologies which I label split subjectivities, plural subjectivities and political responsible listening. I argue that these feminist inspired methodologies draw in understandings of difference and of the centrality of inter-subject relations as the important dimensions of humanness that accounts of autonomy overlook, before challenging the text to further consider which voices, and knowledge practices, remain silenced by feminist legal methodologies. To realise these ideas in strategies for law reform I argue for feminist listening that exercises care through the centring of accounts that emerge from those whose normative universe is more often particularised or discounted in law arrangements. As such, the article addresses legal subjectivity through the lens of intersectionality but with a jurisprudence that seeks to transcends the constraints of identity politics and through attention to indigenous Australian feminisms
Response – Revisiting Unspeakable Subjects: A Retrospective on (and in…) Good Company…
Get PDFResponse from the author to the collection of papers celebrating 20 years since the publication of Unspeakable Subjects (1998)
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