scholarly journals Tlingipino Bingo, settler colonialism and other futures

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 971-993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caleb Johnston ◽  
Geraldine Pratt
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Public Event ◽  
The Public ◽  
White Settler ◽  
Minority Discourse ◽  
Filipino Migrants ◽  
White Settlers

We present an analysis of Tlingipino Bingo, which is the latest iteration of our on-going experiment to work with performance as a means of translating and transforming scholarly work to generate more informed and nuanced public debate about migrant labour. Tlingipino Bingo was a collaboration between white settler academics and Filipino and Tlingit artists in Whitehorse Canada, created in a context of rapid Filipino migration and racialised tensions between Filipino migrants and First Nations peoples in Whitehorse. It brought the communities together to participate in an interactive bingo game and to exchange stories of disparate but resonate experiences of colonialism. We document the public event of Tlingipino Bingo to interrogate how deeply settler colonialism burrows into everyday life, including practices of racialised immigrants, the ways that a model minority discourse functions within state multiculturalism, and to imagine other futures beyond settler colonialism, which could possibly include white settlers as allies. We venture that the performance might also help to think strategically about critical responses to contemporary claims of dispossession by white citizens in Canada and elsewhere, as well as their destructive nostalgia for a lost national time of whiteness.

“A Mixed Assemblage of Persons”: Race and Tavern Space in Upper Canada

2021 ◽  
Vol 102 (s2) ◽  
pp. s427-s450
Author(s):  
Julia Roberts
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Upper Canada ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Racial Boundaries ◽  
The Public ◽  
Human Interactions ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
White Settlers ◽  
Open Question ◽  
The Town

This tavern story about an 1832 Saturday night on the town in Brantford, Upper Canada, addresses the complexities of racialized relations in “public places” generally and the tavern’s bar room in particular. It juxtaposes tavern-goers who engaged in “heterogenous” sociability with the “‘high pressure’ prejudice” of a “‘Yankee’” barkeeper. It challenges us to understand what such moments of multiracial public life meant in a society permeated by racialized thought and practice. There was a strange contradiction between White settlers’ marginalization of Black and First Nations peoples and the sometimes easy accommodation afforded them in the public houses. Although accommodation to people of colour was also illegally, and sometimes violently, denied, tavern stories complicate historical interpretations focusing on conflict. Without questioning these analyses, or the evidence supporting them, the stories suggest that something more subtle was also going on. They invite serious attention to the colony’s many taverns as sites where people chose to relax racial boundaries as often as they chose to enforce them. Maybe it was just the whiskey and the wine; without comparable work on other public spaces, the typicality of a tavern-based history will remain an open question. But because “Indians” as well as the “blacks and whites” all went there, the taverns show how race, as one socially constructed category, shaped ordinary, everyday human interactions.

Settler Colonialism and the Revolutionary War

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-35
Author(s):  
Andrea Lynn Smith
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Revolutionary War ◽  
The State ◽  
The Public ◽  
150Th Anniversary ◽  
End Point ◽  
Indian Land ◽  
Indian Relations ◽  
Major General

The centerpiece of New York State’s 150th anniversary of the Sullivan Expedition of 1779 was a pageant, the “Pageant of Decision.” Major General John Sullivan’s Revolutionary War expedition was designed to eliminate the threat posed by Iroquois allied with the British. It was a genocidal operation that involved the destruction of over forty Indian villages. This article explores the motivations and tactics of state officials as they endeavored to engage the public in this past in pageant form. The pageant was widely popular, and served the state in fixing the expedition as the end point in settler-Indian relations in New York, removing from view decades of expropriations of Indian land that occurred well after Sullivan’s troops left.

Indigenous cultural values counter the damages of white settler colonialism

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Michelle M. Jacob ◽  
Kelly L. Gonzales ◽  
Deanna Chappell Belcher ◽  
Jennifer L. Ruef ◽  
Stephany RunningHawk Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
White Settler ◽  
White Settler Colonialism

“SAVING BRITISH NATIVES”: FAMILY EMIGRATION AND THE LOGIC OF SETTLER COLONIALISM IN CHARLES DICKENS AND CAROLINE CHISHOLM

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-280
Author(s):  
Terra Walston Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Charles Dickens ◽  
British Literature ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
The United States ◽  
Second Empire ◽  
Mother Country ◽  
The Social ◽  
White Settlers ◽  
Emotional Identification

As Cambridge historian J. R. Seeley writes inThe Expansion of England (1883), the fear of colonial secession, inspired by that of the United States, haunted Britons’ perception of their “second Empire” throughout the nineteenth century, effectively working against a sense of shared national destiny with the white settlers of Canada, New Zealand, and Australia (14–15). One important way Victorian writers combatted the “optimistic fatalism” Seeley observed in his fellow Britons was through an imperial economy of affect, which circulated sentiment and stressed emotional identification between settlers and metropolitan Britons (15). If mid-nineteenth-century British literature can be said to negotiate the tensions of Britain's empire through representations of racial, cultural, and linguistic difference, then narratives of sameness – of British families across the oceans – offer models for cohering the British settler empire. In such a model, techniques designed to reinforce the sentimental bonds of settlers to their families might also reinforce the social, political, and affective connections of the settlers to the metaphorical “mother country.”

Imperialism and the Liberation Struggle in Southern Africa

1979 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 14-16
Author(s):  
Nzongola Ntalaja
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Racial Oppression ◽  
Extreme Form ◽  
Popular Movement ◽  
Liberation Movements ◽  
Liberation Struggle ◽  
White Settlers ◽  
Portuguese Colonialism

After the victories of the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO) and the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) against Portuguese colonialism, the liberation struggle in Southern Africa today consists of the heroic efforts being made by the black and brown peoples of South Africa, Namibia, and Zimbabwe to destroy the system of racial oppression established in these countries by white settlers. This system, known in its extreme form of economic explotation and political and cultural oppression as apartheid in South Africa and Namibia, is closely tied to the survival of imperialist interests in Southern Africa. This is why any analysis of the difficulties being faced by the liberation movements of Southern Africa must include a discussion of the specific articulation of imperialism and settler colonialism in this area. For it provides the context in which the African liberation struggle must be understood.

Real-Life and Virtual News Sources Can Be Flat-Out Wrong

2019 ◽  
pp. 144-162
Author(s):  
Robin Blom
Keyword(s):  
Media Literacy ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Memory Distortion ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
The Public ◽  
Inaccurate Information ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Academic Fields

Eyewitnesses play a very important role in news coverage. Yet, scholarly research on eyewitness misidentification and memory distortion is virtually absent in scholarly work in journalism and related academic fields. This chapter emphasizes the need for such a research agenda by analyzing the amount of mistakes student journalists made in a news report they wrote during a 20-minute classroom exercise. Each of the stories about a staged bar fight, except for one, contained pieces of misinformation because the students often blindly trusted eyewitnesses and messages on social media accounts. The results indicated that there is a need for more advanced information and media literacy modules in journalism curricula to avoid inaccurate information from eyewitnesses to be disseminated to the public.

Meta-Remediation as a Mechanism to Address Crowd Decision-Making in the Context of Media Art

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-55
Author(s):  
Jose Alberto Raposo Pinheiro ◽  
Mirian Tavares
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Interaction Model ◽  
Digital Art ◽  
Public Event ◽  
The Public ◽  
Art Installation ◽  
Visual Concepts ◽  
Digital Artifact

uTurn is a digital art installation that allows interaction inside a cinema-like environment or a similar public space — an exhibition system in the context of an audience, retrieving an elected media from the choices made by the majority of the public. The software in its core manages the selection — a meta-remediation that elects a media block, in the form of short-story movies (Vidbits) to be watched by a crowd. The interaction model assumes the need to find a preference in the viewing room in order to identify and choose the next Vidbit. The system allows navigation through media blocks in environments like a cinema room, a summer festival, or a public event. It can be configured to support visual concepts, or to integrate a narrative system in which other types of structures in the story demand that the content follows a segmentation of media. uTurn was exhibited during the 5th Artech International Conference, in 2015. The article addresses the creative process towards the production of the digital artifact using Apple's Quartz Composer.

Shadow Soldiering

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maya Mynster Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Markets ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Global South ◽  
Private Security ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Global Security ◽  
The Public ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Security Companies ◽  
Security Contractors

Contemporary warfare depends on private security contractors from countries in the Global South. In Sierra Leone, this dependency has produced emerging markets for private military and security companies (PMSCs) seeking to recruit cheap, military-experienced labor. This article explores how demobilized militia and soldiers in Sierra Leone negotiate categorical divides to make themselves employable for private security contracting in Iraq. Based on 19 months of fieldwork tracing militia soldiers as they move between shift ing security constellations, the article introduces the notion of “shadow soldiering” to explain the entanglements of public-private spheres and the blurring of boundaries between the visible and invisible that characterize these constellations. While scholarly work on PMSCs has increasingly highlighted the public-private interconnectedness, the article contributes an ethnographically informed perspective on how security contractors on the ground interpret such entanglements and how global security dynamics intersects with the local, everyday practices and processes that facilitate the supply of contractors.

Reading Hawaiian Shakespeare: Indigenous Residue Haunting Settler Colonial Racism

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-43
Author(s):  
LAURA LEHUA YIM
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Scholarly Work

As scholarly work on race in Shakespeare studies continues to develop, this article examines how important insights from critical Indigenous studies can help us to refine and enhance this work to more fully see historical moments at which Shakespeare's works have been appropriated in response to the oppression of settler colonialism. Taking an 1893 political cartoon from a New York newspaper as a representation of settler violence against Queen Lili‘uokalani of Hawai‘i, this essay traces the uses of Banquo's ghost in Hawaiian newspapers as a figure that haunts the racializing elimination of Native rule.

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