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Ways to Claim a Country

November 14, 2010 – 10:11 am

Gillian Cowlishaw reflecting on the settler consciousness of place and origin

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Tom Nairn: The beginnings of a new and undisguised american unilateralism has led many to suggest global forms of justice. But peace may only be achieved by overcoming the impasse of nationalisms in the region

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What Hope for Years to Come?

October 2, 2001 – 7:53 pm

Geoff Sharp: In the wake of the terrorist attacks in the United States, the tension between religious piety and imperial power reveals the urgent need for re-examination of the new social forms

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Ways to Claim a Country

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What Hope for Years to Come?