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With the Rugby World Cup in France a few months away, fans of the "oval ball" are starting to get understandably excited. This "beastly game played by gentlemen" as the adage goes, was born in posh British schools, but quickly spread around the world. It first traveled to France, introduced by English merchants, before finding a truly enthusiastic welcome in the southern Hemisphere, from South Africa to New Zealand. In this part of the world, political issues are sometimes more important than the sport. Colonialism, the struggle against apartheid, French nuclear testing in the Pacific.. .diplomacy has been drawn into the scrum on more than one occasion. Things have changed considerably, though. Having rapidly embraced greater professionalism, rugby has gone global in its own manner. The sport has become much more market savvy, but also more sanitized. Whether this is cause for complaint or satisfaction is open to debate.... Adapted from the source document.

Colonialism in Canada is a historic & continuing relationship that primarily benefits settler populations at the expense of colonized indigenous nations. The practices of colonialism transform this fraught relationship in the economic, technological, & political contexts of different times, but the basic power relationship is exploitative. The relationship is obscured or legitimated by a variety of intellectual, mythological, political, legal, & cultural propaganda techniques, so that most settler Canadians are oblivious to the history & contemporary politico-economic reality of indigenous peoples, as well as to settler privilege relative to that of indigenous peoples. This paper argues that this relationship must be made visible &, thus, amenable to critical analysis & to politico-economic transformation. Only by engaging in a decolonization process can Canada transcend its colonial origins, legitimize its existence, concretize its identity, & move to a genuinely postcolonial order. Adapted from the source document.

What is the meaning of race, racialization and racism in Switzerland and how are they related to Switzerland's colonial heritage? How has the approach to racism changed historically? What role does anti-racist activism play, especially activism by black people and people of color? By discussing such questions, the volume shows how racism is ingrained in the structures of modern societies.
As the articles show, structural and everyday racism can also be found in Switzerland in various areas of society. On the one hand, this volume offers concepts and approaches to understand processes and mechanisms of racialization. The book thus creates the basis for a critical scientific reflection on racism and the use of the analytical category race in Switzerland.

Against the backdrop of the close connection of German nationalism with imagined & real colonial venture & the brief but violent period of actual German colonialism, the article explores the constellation of post-World War II colonial amnesia, which has been modified only in 2004, the centenary of colonial genocide in Namibia. The semi-official apology by the responsible Cabinet Minister at that occasion indicated a certain level of novel publicity for the colonial past, while more recent signs of colonial revisionism in various quarters may foreshadow a round of public controversy. Adapted from the source document.

Despite the extraordinary diversity of the overseas communities, the local political life is, to a large degree, dominated by the recurrent questions regarding the nature of their relationship to the home country. As a result, statutory debates and institutional reforms strongly condition the local political game. They lead to constant phenomena of ideological polarization and depolarization, together with shifting stakes and political realignments. However, these phenomena occur in a context characterized by a large degree of autonomy or, as the case may be, a tendency toward a greater autonomy of overseas political spheres operating according to their own logic, which tends to disconnect them from that of the home country. Adapted from the source document.

Conditioned by the historical heritage and the geographic distance of the territories concerned, overseas law is characterized mainly by the distinction between the regimes of legislative specialty and identity, leading to important differences in the local applicability of laws and regulations. The important normative competences that can be attributed to the overseas communities, including in the legislative field, determine the distinctive characteristics of the judicial review of local laws. Insufficiently updated and accessible, overseas law falls short of the requirements of judicial security. Adapted from the source document.