Post-colonial Theories and Law

Colonial and post-colonial aspects of Australian identity.

Since the 1988 Bicentennial and the 2001 centenary of federation celebrations colonial images have flourished in Australia, highlighting the roles of convicts and free settlers during early colonization. Old sites, such as Port Arthur have been re-invigorated, and in 2004 Tasmanians celebrated the bicentenary of 'white' settlement. However, social scientists have given little attention to the r...

(Post)Colonial Diplomacy in Canada

Although the colonial ideology often masks the fact, diplomacy has been a major part of the colonial encounter. In Canada, diplomacy in its many guises has been carried out between the colonizing Europeans and EuroCanadians since first contact between them. This diplomacy can be immediately broken up into at least two distinct periods: pre-colonial and colonial diplomacy. The first is marked by...

Post-Mortems and Law

ls? case.?On the 1st of January 1880, the body of a boy was brought into the sudder station for examination. I received no information at the time as to the supposed cause of death. This is what I found and recorded. The corpse of a boy about nine years old, not decomposed. The right arm, part of the left thigh, and right side of chest denuded of flesh as though eaten by jackals, etc ; a bruise...

Material Culture of Post-colonial Wildlife Tourism

Many independent nations with strong tourism economies have colonial pasts. In parts of Africa and Asia, former colonial powers have left post-colonial legacies of language, buildings, trade and diplomatic links, and government bureaucratic structures (Ashcroft, Griffiths, & Tiffin, 2007; Sharp, 2009; Zein-Alabdin, 2009). There are also strong postcolonial influences on tourism (Carrigan, 2011;...

Governing the Contaminated City: Infrastructure and Sanitation in Colonial and Post-Colonial Bombay