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‘A series of discussions with local and international speakers on ‘postcolonialism applied’: action-oriented and grounded in its practices—from the word to the world, from past to present, from exceptional moments to the everyday.’
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In Turnbull’s view, terrorists just appear and organise: all we can do is defend ourselves against them. We need good policy over time on social integration and, apart from this, strong security institutions. This is a war debate, or a debate by a society not wanting to think too much about relations with other cultures or institutional development. It is a debate constructed to win an election rather than seriously take hold of what is happening…
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All too often human disasters, particularly ones in Africa, serve as the setting for entitled European people to act out their exciting adventures.
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When NGOs buy into the language of philanthrocapital, there’s a problem
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Bill Gammage, The Biggest Estate on Earth Allen and Unwin, 2011
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John Hinkson’s introduction to Issue 37/38 (2012): Stolen Lands, Broken Cultures: The Settler-Colonial Present
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Why the West continues to devastate Aboriginal cultures
Jon Hinkson
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It is beyond most Westerners to understand today how offers of democracy are really much more than this: there is a widespread incapacity to grasp the social assumptions embedded in our ‘gifts’ writes John Hinkson