Currently browsing author

George Nexus

Rheumatic fever rates in some Ontario First Nations 75 times higher than rest of Canada (repost)

People living in remote First Nations north of Sioux Lookout, Ont., are experiencing acute rheumatic fever at a rate that is among the highest in the world, according to new research from the College of Family Physicians of Canada.

Read the rest of this post on the original site at Rheumatic fever rates in some Ontario First Nations 75 times higher than rest of Canada ...........READ MORE

A Typology of Colonialism (repost)

In the past several years, settler colonial theory has taken over my field, Native American studies. Comparative indigenous histories focused especially on British-descended “settler colonies”—Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the United States—have proliferated.

Read the rest of this post on the original site at A Typology of Colonialism ...........READ MORE

Utopias, past and present: why Thomas More remains astonishingly radical (repost)

Thomas More’s Utopia, a book that will be 500 years old next year, is astonishingly radical stuff. Not many lord chancellors of England have denounced private property, advocated a form of communism and described the current social order as a “conspiracy of the rich”.

Read the rest of this post on the original site at Utopias, past and present: why Thomas More remains astonishingly radical ...........READ MORE