Suchergebnisse

Notes that the initial declaration of eastern Australia as 'desert' or uninhabited land was based on misrepresentation of fact. Moreover it has become the basis of the legal framework colonising the interior, and of the political economy. Traces the treatment and living conditions of the Kooris (Aborigines) historically, and today, and analyses the Labor Party's response, since it holds a platform of social justice. (PAS)

Moving to a new place : the archaeological study of migration in the ancient Andes / Donna J. Nash -- "Para que quede memoria del y de los dichos sus serbizios" : un escudo de armas para el cacique Sancho Hacho : comunicación político-visual en el entrecruzamiento del temprano Estado colonial en Ecuador / Olaf Kaltmeier -- In search of the New World : (re)inventing Bahia / Ines Linke -- Rousseau and Emile in Karen Tei Yamashita's Brazil-Maru : the intertexts of colonies, utopia, and freedom / Ruth Y. Hsu -- Toward an inter-American study of African transculturalization in native America / Robert Keith Collins -- Colonial and decolonial thinking : race discourses in literatures of the Americas / Josef Raab -- El mestizaje como trauma : sexualidad y violencia en los discursos (supra)nacionales en Sudamérica en el siglo 19 / Olga Ries -- Disidencia y resistencia en Ecuador : Montalvo y Mera, 1860-1890 / Rocío Rosero Jácome -- The Virgin and the observatory : astronomy, modernity, and the U.S. Mills expedition in Chile / Bárbara Silva -- Native spirituality and cultural development in Adolph Bandelier's ethnological research in the U.S. Southwest / Matthew N. Johnston -- Alexandra Fuller's Americas : emerging from coloniality / Melissa Knox -- Rupturas en la colonialidad : la transición agroecológica en la Zona de la Mata de Pernambuco, Brasil / Antonielle Pinheiro da Cunha -- Negociación del espacio legítimo en comunidades indígenas del Área Metropolitana de Asunción / Marcelo Bogado -- Fricciones interétnicas : la situación del Campamento Purhépecha en Zapopan / Ulises Zarazúa Villaseñor -- Movimiento indio, elites indigenas y literaturas amerindias / Martín Lienhard -- Las raíces de la larga duración en las resistencias indígenas colombianas : desafiando la Hidra, tejiendo las autonomías / Maley Linares Sánchez -- Andean music bands abroad : colonizing the flâneur of the West / Dorothea Gail -- Decolonizing the image of 'La Malinche' : the transculturation of a colonial Mexican icon to U.S. Latino culture via twenty-first century Latino Art / Rebecca Elena Mansfeld -- The two Guadalupes : sacred folk narratives and cultural reformatting in the colonization/decolonization project of New Spain / María Herrera-Sobek -- Race, place, and the decolonial imaginary / George Lipsitz.

"To the governments and corporations that are currently buying up vast tracts of the Third World, it is called "land leasing." To its critics this new era of colonization is nothing more than "land grabbing." In this arresting account of how millions of hectares of fertile soil are being stolen to feed the wealthy thousands of miles away, journalist Stefano Liberti takes us from a Dutch-owned model farm in Ethiopia to an international conference in Riyadh, where representatives of Third World governments compete to attract the interest of Saudi investors; from institutional and commercial meetings in Rome to the headquarters of the Landless Workers' Movement in Sao Paulo"--