Wednesday 31 October 2012
Scanning service goes live
All printer/photocopiers at the Senate House Library can now also be used to scan digital copies. This is a charged service (to cover the cost of providing machines, maintenance etc) at 6p per scan.
Users must enter an email address at the machine before you start scanning, and scans will be delivered to this address. The service does not allow scan to USB.
Scanning defaults to A3 and will scan everything on the copier glass at 200dpi and save as a Compact PDF
file. If you want to schange these options please refer to the guides at each machine.
Tuesday 30 October 2012
New this month - New Jewel Movement publications
Newly added to the collections are important primary sources for the study of Grenada, consisting of one issue (Aug 1981) of the Newsletter of the New Jewel Movement National Women’s Organisation and a number of issues from 1981-1983 of the New Jewel, the newspaper of the New Jewel Movement.
The New Joint Endeavour for Welfare, Education, and Liberation, or New JEWEL Movement (NJM), was a Marxist-Leninist vanguard party in the Caribbean island nation of Grenada. The NJM was established in 1973 as an alliance of the Joint Endeavour for Welfare, Education and Liberation (JEWEL) and the Movement for Assemblies of the People (MAP), and was led by the lawyer Maurice Bishop. The movement was an opposition political party through the 1970s and took control of the country with a successful revolution against the government of Eric Gairy in 1979 ruling by decree until being deposed by the US military after its 1983 invasion.
These new additions add to our collection of secondary sources on Grenada, Grenadian politics, the revolution and the invasion, as well as primary material published by the New Jewel Movement and support groups (established after the invasion) which include earlier issues of the New Jewel Movement’s newspaper entitled New Jewel : let those who labour hold the reins. The collection also includes material published by the Grenada National Party, National Democratic Party, and the Grenada Seamen and Waterfront Workers' Union and Grenada Commercial and Industrial Workers' Union, as well as speeches by Maurice Bishop, when he held the post of Prime Minister
The New Joint Endeavour for Welfare, Education, and Liberation, or New JEWEL Movement (NJM), was a Marxist-Leninist vanguard party in the Caribbean island nation of Grenada. The NJM was established in 1973 as an alliance of the Joint Endeavour for Welfare, Education and Liberation (JEWEL) and the Movement for Assemblies of the People (MAP), and was led by the lawyer Maurice Bishop. The movement was an opposition political party through the 1970s and took control of the country with a successful revolution against the government of Eric Gairy in 1979 ruling by decree until being deposed by the US military after its 1983 invasion.
These new additions add to our collection of secondary sources on Grenada, Grenadian politics, the revolution and the invasion, as well as primary material published by the New Jewel Movement and support groups (established after the invasion) which include earlier issues of the New Jewel Movement’s newspaper entitled New Jewel : let those who labour hold the reins. The collection also includes material published by the Grenada National Party, National Democratic Party, and the Grenada Seamen and Waterfront Workers' Union and Grenada Commercial and Industrial Workers' Union, as well as speeches by Maurice Bishop, when he held the post of Prime Minister
Monday 29 October 2012
The Media Reform Lanka Initiative Website Launch
The Media Reform Lanka Initiative, based at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, has launched its website http://mediareformlanka.com/.
The Initiative aims to broaden and inform the perspectives in which media law, media policy and regulation are debated and determined in Sri Lanka and the wider South Asian region. It is led by Colombo-based senior legal advocate and media columnist Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena, in association with Dr David Page and Dr William Crawley, Senior Fellows at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Co-Directors of the Media South Asia Project. Their work to date has generated two core papers on Media Freedom and Social Responsibility in Sri Lanka: A Review of the Legal, Institutional and Educational Framework Relating to the Print Media (co-authored by Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena & Gehan Gunetilleke) and on the Political Economy of the Electronic Media (co-authored by the late Tilak Jayaratne and Sarath Kellapotha).
Thursday 25 October 2012
Commonwealth Research Seminar Series
Commonwealth Research Seminar Series
All seminars are on Wednesdays and begin at 1730
TERM 1
14 November 2012
Ben Muda, Commonwealth Business Council, London: Malaysia at Fifty: The Commonwealth in Malaysia's Foreign Policy
Filippo Menozzi, University of Canterbury, Kent, The Boundaries of Politics: Arundhati Roy's Transversal Activism
12 December 2012
Lanver Mak, Visiting Fellow ICwS, Unveiling the Veiled Protectorate: The Untold Stories of British Labourers and Criminals in Egypt, 1882-1922
Maria Mut Bosque, Visiting Fellow and PhD student, ICwS, Gibraltar: National Identity and Language Issues
TERM 2
16 January 2013
Peter Fraser, Visiting Fellow ICwS: An exemplary life: Arnold Hamilton Maloney and Trinidadian intellectual history
Giorgios Charalambous, Visiting Fellow ICwS: The Cypriot Left in Government: A Preliminary Assessment
13 February 2013
Bill Clarance, Visitng Fellow ICwS: Understanding Leonard Woolf : his role in decolonization
Paulo Rigueira, Doctoral Student ICwS: Globalisation & Human Rights: A Conceptual Approach
13 March 2013
Mandy Banton. Senior Fellow ICwS: Title TBA
Yiannos Katsourides, Visiting Fellow ICwS: Political conflicts in Cyprus in the 1940s and 1950s
TERM 3
17 April 2013
Abess Taqi, Doctoral student, ICwS: Arab perspectives on Western efforts to promote democratic reform in the Arab world
Sue Onslow, Senior Fellow ICwS, The Commonwealth & election monitoring: the Zimbabwe success story?
15 May 2013
Shihan de Silva, Senior Fellow ICwS: Connecting the Portuguese Burghers to the Commonwealth and Beyond: Language Matters
John Cowley, Fellow ICwS: Numberless Are The Sands On The Seashore : 'The Real Bahamas' and the field recording experience (1935-1965)
12 June 2013
Susan Williams, Senior Fellow ICwS, and Dr Luke McKernan, Lead Curator, Moving Image, The British Library: The screening of decolonisation: from book to film
Convenors: Susan Williams (susan.williams@sas.ac.uk) and Shihan de Silva (shihan.desilva@sas.ac.uk )
All seminars are on Wednesdays and begin at 1730
TERM 1
14 November 2012
Ben Muda, Commonwealth Business Council, London: Malaysia at Fifty: The Commonwealth in Malaysia's Foreign Policy
Filippo Menozzi, University of Canterbury, Kent, The Boundaries of Politics: Arundhati Roy's Transversal Activism
12 December 2012
Lanver Mak, Visiting Fellow ICwS, Unveiling the Veiled Protectorate: The Untold Stories of British Labourers and Criminals in Egypt, 1882-1922
Maria Mut Bosque, Visiting Fellow and PhD student, ICwS, Gibraltar: National Identity and Language Issues
TERM 2
16 January 2013
Peter Fraser, Visiting Fellow ICwS: An exemplary life: Arnold Hamilton Maloney and Trinidadian intellectual history
Giorgios Charalambous, Visiting Fellow ICwS: The Cypriot Left in Government: A Preliminary Assessment
13 February 2013
Bill Clarance, Visitng Fellow ICwS: Understanding Leonard Woolf : his role in decolonization
Paulo Rigueira, Doctoral Student ICwS: Globalisation & Human Rights: A Conceptual Approach
13 March 2013
Mandy Banton. Senior Fellow ICwS: Title TBA
Yiannos Katsourides, Visiting Fellow ICwS: Political conflicts in Cyprus in the 1940s and 1950s
TERM 3
17 April 2013
Abess Taqi, Doctoral student, ICwS: Arab perspectives on Western efforts to promote democratic reform in the Arab world
Sue Onslow, Senior Fellow ICwS, The Commonwealth & election monitoring: the Zimbabwe success story?
15 May 2013
Shihan de Silva, Senior Fellow ICwS: Connecting the Portuguese Burghers to the Commonwealth and Beyond: Language Matters
John Cowley, Fellow ICwS: Numberless Are The Sands On The Seashore : 'The Real Bahamas' and the field recording experience (1935-1965)
12 June 2013
Susan Williams, Senior Fellow ICwS, and Dr Luke McKernan, Lead Curator, Moving Image, The British Library: The screening of decolonisation: from book to film
Convenors: Susan Williams (susan.williams@sas.ac.uk) and Shihan de Silva (shihan.desilva@sas.ac.uk )
Wednesday 24 October 2012
November 1-3: access to Senate House Library
On 1, 2 and 3 November, 2012, inclusive, access to the Institute of Commnwealth Studies Library and Senate House Library (SHL) will be via Stewart House only: there will be no access to the ground floor of Senate House while it is being used for filming. There may also be some disruption for a few days before and after these dates.
The Book Drop Box will also be in Stewart House from the morning of 1st to 5th November.
On the above dates, all readers must go to Stewart House, at the Russell Square entrance. The route to the lifts normally used to access SHL will be clearly signposted. There will not be any access to Senate House Library via the stairs.
All SHL readers should be able to access the library unimpeded. Anyone with disabilities may contact us before they visit, although it is not necessary to give us advance warning.
The Book Drop Box will also be in Stewart House from the morning of 1st to 5th November.
On the above dates, all readers must go to Stewart House, at the Russell Square entrance. The route to the lifts normally used to access SHL will be clearly signposted. There will not be any access to Senate House Library via the stairs.
All SHL readers should be able to access the library unimpeded. Anyone with disabilities may contact us before they visit, although it is not necessary to give us advance warning.
Tuesday 23 October 2012
Rwanda Bibliography
Today we wish to highlight a resource on the newest member of the Commonwealth, Rwanda.
François Lagarde, of the University of Texas at Austin, has produced a very comprehensive bibilography on Rwanda, available free on the web, via the University of Texas Institutional Repository.
The bibliography lists all English and French publications on Rwanda from 1990-2011. The six main classes are: witness accounts, social sciences studies, natural sciences studies, legal publications, literature (all genres), and films. It currently consists of 7016 entries and includes an introduction and table of matters in French. The bibliography is intended to be regularly updated.
The bibiography can be found at: http://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/15587
François Lagarde, of the University of Texas at Austin, has produced a very comprehensive bibilography on Rwanda, available free on the web, via the University of Texas Institutional Repository.
The bibliography lists all English and French publications on Rwanda from 1990-2011. The six main classes are: witness accounts, social sciences studies, natural sciences studies, legal publications, literature (all genres), and films. It currently consists of 7016 entries and includes an introduction and table of matters in French. The bibliography is intended to be regularly updated.
The bibiography can be found at: http://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/15587
Friday 19 October 2012
Witness Seminar: Localisation of the Civil Service in colonial territories before and immediately after independence
Institute of Commonwealth Studies and OSPA (Overseas Service Pensioners' Association) Witness Seminar: Localisation of the Civil Service in colonial territories before and immediately after independence
Event Programme
Thursday 25 October 2012
In the Senate Room, Senate House, South Block, Malet Street, London. WC1E 7HU
11.00-11.15 Registration, tea/coffee
11.15-11.30 Welcome and introduction by Professor Philip Murphy (ICwS)
11.30-1.00 Session One: Education and Training
Chair: Dr Tamson Pietsch (Brunel University)
Eric Cunningham: (Education Officer, Gold Coast 1952 – 62) Gold Coast localisation: a long history, and reflections on my own experience.
Professor Michael Lee: (University of Manchester; Seconded to Uganda, and Makerere University College) The contribution of Makerere College to Localisation in East Africa.
Peter Wood: (Tanzania 1957 – 69; Oxford University 1969 – 90, ODA and international consultant; Commonwealth Forestry Association (Vice-President) The role of the Commonwealth Forestry Institute, Oxford, in professional education and training.
1.00-2.00 Sandwich Lunch
2.00-3.30 Session Two: Training for the Localisation of Public Administration
Chair: Professor Philip Murphy (ICwS)
Wyn Reilly: (Tanganyika 1956-62; IDPM, University of Manchester. Involved in Public Administration and Training in numerous countries). The Administrative Training Centre, Mzumbe, Tanganyika and management training at IDPM, Manchester and overseas.
Colin Fuller: (Kenya 1956-68; Kenya Institute of Administration, then IDPM, Manchester). Africanisation of the Civil Service in Kenya with special reference to the Administration.
Chris Cochran: (Solomon Islands 1967-82; Public Service Office and then Commissioner for Labour) Localisation of the Public Service in the Solomon Islands 1960-82, either side of Independence in 1978.
3.30-4.00 Tea/coffee
4.00-5.30 Session Three: The Politics of Localisation
Chair: Dr Georgina Sinclair (Open University)
John Ducker: (Aden 1960-67; then with World Bank in Africa and Central Asia). A Comparative Study across the colonies generally.
Simon Gillett: (Served in Cameroons 1960; Bechuanaland/Botswana 1965-72). The political context of Localisation and Government Policies in the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Botswana.
Michael Waters: (Western Pacific –GEIC 1972-76; Hong Kong 1976-97, Civil Service Branch dealing with localisation and handover, and Deputy Political Advisor to the Governor). The security, political and nationality issues affecting Localisation in Hong Kong.
5.30-7.00 Drinks reception
To register and pay online for this event, please click here.
Registration form
Thursday 18 October 2012
Postgraduate & Early Career Scholars Research Training Workshop
Postgraduate & Early Career Scholars Research Training Workshop
Wednesday 5th December 2012, 1pm to 6pm, at Royal Holloway University of London
The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) is organising a research training workshop for postgraduates (MA students and PhDs) and early career scholars (defined as within five years of PhD graduation). The event is intended to be a “one-stop-shop” where attendees can take part in a variety of training and development workshops, get advice and feedback on their own work and meet with other researchers. The event is targeted primarily although not exclusively at those interested in the Americas, with both an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective. We particularly encourage those just starting out in postgraduate research to attend. We also hope that the sessions will appeal to those making the transition from postgraduate research into the next stage of their academic careers, who often find that there is a dearth of research training catering to their particular position.
The event has five elements:
1) Training and development workshops. Sessions include:
Getting published, Teaching as a postgrad, Using social media, Applying for funding, Conference organisation, Job search and CV writing, Being a part-time postgrad, Coping with academic stress, Working with your supervisor & mentoring others, Remaining research active post-PhD graduation
2) A “drop-in surgery” for advice
3) The chance to present one’s research project in poster format and receive feedback on it (optional)
4) A “marketplace” showcasing publishers, scholarly organisations and societies etc
5) Networking and socialising opportunities, including a drinks reception kindly supported by The Paul Mellon Professorial Fund
The cost is £20. The deadline for registration is Wednesday 14th November 2012.
To register, or if you have any questions, please contact the organisers (Dr Dawn-Marie Gibson, RHUL; Dr Rachel Ritchie, Brunel University; Ms Imaobong Umoren, Oxford University) via shawsociety@gmail.com
Wednesday 5th December 2012, 1pm to 6pm, at Royal Holloway University of London
The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) is organising a research training workshop for postgraduates (MA students and PhDs) and early career scholars (defined as within five years of PhD graduation). The event is intended to be a “one-stop-shop” where attendees can take part in a variety of training and development workshops, get advice and feedback on their own work and meet with other researchers. The event is targeted primarily although not exclusively at those interested in the Americas, with both an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective. We particularly encourage those just starting out in postgraduate research to attend. We also hope that the sessions will appeal to those making the transition from postgraduate research into the next stage of their academic careers, who often find that there is a dearth of research training catering to their particular position.
The event has five elements:
1) Training and development workshops. Sessions include:
Getting published, Teaching as a postgrad, Using social media, Applying for funding, Conference organisation, Job search and CV writing, Being a part-time postgrad, Coping with academic stress, Working with your supervisor & mentoring others, Remaining research active post-PhD graduation
2) A “drop-in surgery” for advice
3) The chance to present one’s research project in poster format and receive feedback on it (optional)
4) A “marketplace” showcasing publishers, scholarly organisations and societies etc
5) Networking and socialising opportunities, including a drinks reception kindly supported by The Paul Mellon Professorial Fund
The cost is £20. The deadline for registration is Wednesday 14th November 2012.
To register, or if you have any questions, please contact the organisers (Dr Dawn-Marie Gibson, RHUL; Dr Rachel Ritchie, Brunel University; Ms Imaobong Umoren, Oxford University) via shawsociety@gmail.com
Tuesday 16 October 2012
Bloomsbury Festival: 20th-21st October 2012
The Bloomsbury Festival 2012 will take place on the weekend of the 20th October celebrating the cultural organisations, community groups, creative individuals and iconic institutions of this little-known corner of central London.
From dance to drama, poetry to performance, art to architecture and workshops to walks it’s already promising to be another exciting year with programming taking place across the whole area
Below are listed some exhibitions and talks celebrating some of the Institute's library and archive collections. For a full listing of events please explore: http://www.bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/
Exhibition: Ruth First's Extraordinary Life
Sat 20 Oct 11:00-17:00 at Senate House
Sun 21 Oct 11:00-16:00 at Senate House
Anti-apartheid activist Ruth First dedicated her life to “the liberation of Africa for I count myself an African, and there is no cause I hold dearer”. She was passionate about achieving justice in South Africa, but her perspective was international. First saw activism, solidarity work, research and writing as essential activities for a revolutionary. She was assassinated in 1982 by a letter bomb sent by the South African secret service. The Institute of Commonwealth Studies is digitising this extraordinary woman’s papers. This exhibition of Ruth First’s papers, photographs and archival material at Senate House offers an introduction to both First herself and her important works, which retain their relevance, especially in the light of recent democracy movements across northern Africa and beyond.
Talk: A Revolutionary Life
Sun 21 Oct 11:00-11:30 at Senate House
This talk introduces Ruth First and offers an insight into her multifaceted, revolutionary life as an international scholar, activist and writer, and wife and mother
Talk: Introduction to the Ruth First Archive
Sun 21 Oct 14:00-14:30 at Senate House
This talk will introduce the archive of Ruth First's collection of papers, included her collected writings, published journalism, correspondence and notes.
Talk: Ruth First and Bloomsbury
Sun 21 Oct 15:00-15:30 at Senate House
Following her arrest under the South African 90-day law, Ruth First was barred from her profession as a journalist; she went into exile and moved to London. This talk discusses First's intellectual associations with Bloomsbury.
Exhibition: Campaigning for Independence, Equality and Freedom
Sat 20 Oct 11:00-17:00 at Senate House
Sun 21 Oct 11:00-16:00 at Senate House
The political archives held in the Institute of Commonwealth Studies library encompass more than 270 boxes of political pamphlets, newsletters and posters from over 60 countries, mainly dating from the 1960s and 1970s, the period when many of these countries were making the transition to independence. The Southern African region is particularly well represented, with materials from an extraordinarily wide variety of different political parties, trade unions and pressure groups having been preserved. This exhibition reveals how these materials are used to convey different messages in different ways and provide an historical insight not found in official archives and records. Curated by Benjamin Coleman and David Clover.
From dance to drama, poetry to performance, art to architecture and workshops to walks it’s already promising to be another exciting year with programming taking place across the whole area
Below are listed some exhibitions and talks celebrating some of the Institute's library and archive collections. For a full listing of events please explore: http://www.bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/
Exhibition: Ruth First's Extraordinary Life
Sat 20 Oct 11:00-17:00 at Senate House
Sun 21 Oct 11:00-16:00 at Senate House
Anti-apartheid activist Ruth First dedicated her life to “the liberation of Africa for I count myself an African, and there is no cause I hold dearer”. She was passionate about achieving justice in South Africa, but her perspective was international. First saw activism, solidarity work, research and writing as essential activities for a revolutionary. She was assassinated in 1982 by a letter bomb sent by the South African secret service. The Institute of Commonwealth Studies is digitising this extraordinary woman’s papers. This exhibition of Ruth First’s papers, photographs and archival material at Senate House offers an introduction to both First herself and her important works, which retain their relevance, especially in the light of recent democracy movements across northern Africa and beyond.
Talk: A Revolutionary Life
Sun 21 Oct 11:00-11:30 at Senate House
This talk introduces Ruth First and offers an insight into her multifaceted, revolutionary life as an international scholar, activist and writer, and wife and mother
Talk: Introduction to the Ruth First Archive
Sun 21 Oct 14:00-14:30 at Senate House
This talk will introduce the archive of Ruth First's collection of papers, included her collected writings, published journalism, correspondence and notes.
Talk: Ruth First and Bloomsbury
Sun 21 Oct 15:00-15:30 at Senate House
Following her arrest under the South African 90-day law, Ruth First was barred from her profession as a journalist; she went into exile and moved to London. This talk discusses First's intellectual associations with Bloomsbury.
Exhibition: Campaigning for Independence, Equality and Freedom
Sat 20 Oct 11:00-17:00 at Senate House
Sun 21 Oct 11:00-16:00 at Senate House
The political archives held in the Institute of Commonwealth Studies library encompass more than 270 boxes of political pamphlets, newsletters and posters from over 60 countries, mainly dating from the 1960s and 1970s, the period when many of these countries were making the transition to independence. The Southern African region is particularly well represented, with materials from an extraordinarily wide variety of different political parties, trade unions and pressure groups having been preserved. This exhibition reveals how these materials are used to convey different messages in different ways and provide an historical insight not found in official archives and records. Curated by Benjamin Coleman and David Clover.
Monday 15 October 2012
SCOLMA Seminar: The Ringtone and the Drum: West Africa in Transition
SCOLMA UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa
SCOLMA Seminar: The Ringtone and the Drum: West Africa in Transition
Mark Weston: Writer, researcher and policy advisor
1.00pm Wednesday 7th November 2012
Room B111
Brunei Gallery
SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
For further information please contact Daniel Gilfoyle daviel.gilfoyle@nationalarchives.gov.uk
For infomration on SCOLMA Lunchtime Seminars and other events see the SCOLMA website http://scolma.org
SCOLMA Seminar: The Ringtone and the Drum: West Africa in Transition
Mark Weston: Writer, researcher and policy advisor
1.00pm Wednesday 7th November 2012
Room B111
Brunei Gallery
SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
For further information please contact Daniel Gilfoyle daviel.gilfoyle@nationalarchives.gov.uk
For infomration on SCOLMA Lunchtime Seminars and other events see the SCOLMA website http://scolma.org
Friday 12 October 2012
New Books - September 2012 (Part 2)
Our continued list of new books added to the collection and catalogue last month:
Candlin, Kit. The last Caribbean frontier, 1795-1815. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Caribbean Reasonings Conference (6th : 2008 : University of the West Indies Mona). M.G. Smith : social theory and anthropology in the Caribbean and beyond. Kingston, Jamaica ; Miami [Fla.] : Ian Randle Publishers, 2011.
Mukherji, Nirmalangshu. The Maoists in India : tribals under siege. London : Pluto, 2012.
Sandgren, David P. Mau Mau's children : the making of Kenya's postcolonial elite. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2012.
Jonathan Crush et al. Migration-induced HIV and AIDS in rural Mozambique and Swaziland. Cape Town, South Africa : Idasa ; Kingston, Ont. : Southern African Research Centre, 2010.
Tinker, Keith L. The migration of peoples from the Caribbean to the Bahamas. Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, c2011.
Vanuatu. Millennium Development Goals 2010 report for Vanuatu. [Port Vila, Vanuatu : Office of the Prime Minister], 2010.
Young, Lisa and Harold J. Jansen (eds). Money, politics, and democracy : Canada's party finance reforms. Vancouver : UBC Press, c2011.
Haines, Chad. Nation, territory, and globalization in Pakistan : traversing the margins. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
Vanuatu. Department of Strategic Policy, Planning & Aid Coordination. National population policy : 2011-2020. Port Vila, Vanuatu : Department of Strategic Policy, Planning & Aid Coordination, Ministry of the Prime Minister, 2011.
Tonga. Ministry of Finance and National Planning. National strategic planning framework (NSPF) : next 5-10 years. Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Ministry of Finance and National Planning, 2010.
Masters, Lesley and Emmanual Kisiangani (eds). Natural resources governance in southern Africa. Braamfontein, Johannesburg : Africa Institute of South Africa, c2010.
Maina, Grace (ed). Opportunity or threat : the engagement of youth in African societies. Umhlanga Rocks, South Africa : ACCORD, c2012.
Pollecoff, Eve. Pioneer merchant trader : the life and times of Otto Markus. London ; New York : Radcliffe Press, 2012.
Forti, Daniel R. A pocket of stability : understanding Somaliland. [Durban] : African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD), c2011.
Kahn, Borhan Uddin and Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman. Protection of minorities : regimes, norms and issues in South Asia. Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2012.
Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (Organization). Public financial management performance report : Kingdom of Tonga : final report. [S.l.] : Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability, 2010.
Singh, Sherry-Ann. The Ramayana tradition and socio-religious change in Trinidad, 1917-1990. Kingston ; Miami : Ian Randle Publishers, 2012.
Cooper, Daisy, David Seddon and Tim Sheehy. Review of the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group : on the side of the people. London : Commonwealth Advisory Bureau, 2011.
Skanthakumar, Balasingham (ed). Rights, remittances, and reintegration : women migrant workers and returnees in Sri Lanka. Colombo : Law & Society Trust, 2011.
Kymlicka, Will and Kathryn Walker (eds). Rooted cosmopolitanism : Canada and the world. Vancouver : UBC Press, 2012.
Rostek, Michael and Peter Gizewski (eds). Security operations in the 21st century : Canadian perspectives on the comprehensive approach. Kingston, Ont. : Queen's Centre for International Relations, c2011.
Lewis, Patsy. Social policies in Grenada. London : Commonwealth Secretariat, 2010.
Ministry of Finance and National Planning. Social protection issues paper : report / prepared for the Government of Tonga. Tonga : Ministry of Finance and National Planning, 2010?
Hague, Cliff and Will French. The state of the cities : Why, and how, the Commonwealth must address the challenge of sustainable urbanisation. London : Commonwealth Secretariat, 2010.
Mangaliso, Mzamo P. Strategic choice under uncertainty : multinational corporations and the pressure to disinvest from South Africa . Lanham, Md. : University Press of America c2010.
Fiji Islands Bureau of Statistics. A study of the agriculture, forestry and fishing industries, 2008. Suva, Fiji : Fiji Islands Bureau of Statistics, 2011.
Allen, Liz. Sustainable population strategy : public policy and implementation challenges. Canberra, ACT : Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 2011.
Tonga. Ministry of Finance and National Planning. Tonga strategic development framework (TSDF) : 2011-2014. Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Ministry of Finance and National Planning, 2011.
Kaviraj, Sudipta. The trajectories of the Indian state : politics and ideas. Ranikhet : Permanent Black ; Bangalore : c2010.
Hiranandani, G. M. Transition to guardianship : the Indian navy 1991-2000. New Delhi : Published by Principal Director of Administration, Integrated Headquarters, Ministry of Defence (Navy) [in association with] Lancer Publishers, c2009.
Hayes, Geoffrey. Tuvalu national population policy 2010-2015 / prepared by Geoffrey Hayes with assistance from the Department of Planning and Budget, National Population Policy Taskforce and UNFPA Pacific Sub-Regional Office. Funafuti, Tuvalu : Department of Planning and Budget, Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, 2011.
Commonwealth Observer Group. Uganda presidential and parliamentary elections, 18 February 2011, report of the Commonwealth Observer Group. London : Commonwealth Secretariat, 2011.
Sen, Purna. Universal periodic review : lessons, hopes and expectations. London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2011.
Osumanu, Kanton I et al. Urban water and sanitation in Ghana : how local action is making a difference. London : IIED, 2010.
The 'Westminster model' and representative government in the era of decolonisation : a transcript of the proceedings of the seminar held on 25 May 2011. London ; Tonbridge : Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London : Overseas Service Pensioners' Association, 2012.
Commonwealth Observer Group. Zambia General Elections, 20 September 2011 : Report of the Commonwealth Observer Group. London : Commonwealth Secretariat, 2011.
Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J. The Zimbabwean nation-State project : a historical diagnosis of identity and power-based conflicts in a postcolonial State. Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2011
Candlin, Kit. The last Caribbean frontier, 1795-1815. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Caribbean Reasonings Conference (6th : 2008 : University of the West Indies Mona). M.G. Smith : social theory and anthropology in the Caribbean and beyond. Kingston, Jamaica ; Miami [Fla.] : Ian Randle Publishers, 2011.
Mukherji, Nirmalangshu. The Maoists in India : tribals under siege. London : Pluto, 2012.
Sandgren, David P. Mau Mau's children : the making of Kenya's postcolonial elite. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2012.
Jonathan Crush et al. Migration-induced HIV and AIDS in rural Mozambique and Swaziland. Cape Town, South Africa : Idasa ; Kingston, Ont. : Southern African Research Centre, 2010.
Tinker, Keith L. The migration of peoples from the Caribbean to the Bahamas. Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, c2011.
Vanuatu. Millennium Development Goals 2010 report for Vanuatu. [Port Vila, Vanuatu : Office of the Prime Minister], 2010.
Young, Lisa and Harold J. Jansen (eds). Money, politics, and democracy : Canada's party finance reforms. Vancouver : UBC Press, c2011.
Haines, Chad. Nation, territory, and globalization in Pakistan : traversing the margins. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
Vanuatu. Department of Strategic Policy, Planning & Aid Coordination. National population policy : 2011-2020. Port Vila, Vanuatu : Department of Strategic Policy, Planning & Aid Coordination, Ministry of the Prime Minister, 2011.
Tonga. Ministry of Finance and National Planning. National strategic planning framework (NSPF) : next 5-10 years. Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Ministry of Finance and National Planning, 2010.
Masters, Lesley and Emmanual Kisiangani (eds). Natural resources governance in southern Africa. Braamfontein, Johannesburg : Africa Institute of South Africa, c2010.
Maina, Grace (ed). Opportunity or threat : the engagement of youth in African societies. Umhlanga Rocks, South Africa : ACCORD, c2012.
Pollecoff, Eve. Pioneer merchant trader : the life and times of Otto Markus. London ; New York : Radcliffe Press, 2012.
Forti, Daniel R. A pocket of stability : understanding Somaliland. [Durban] : African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD), c2011.
Kahn, Borhan Uddin and Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman. Protection of minorities : regimes, norms and issues in South Asia. Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2012.
Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (Organization). Public financial management performance report : Kingdom of Tonga : final report. [S.l.] : Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability, 2010.
Singh, Sherry-Ann. The Ramayana tradition and socio-religious change in Trinidad, 1917-1990. Kingston ; Miami : Ian Randle Publishers, 2012.
Cooper, Daisy, David Seddon and Tim Sheehy. Review of the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group : on the side of the people. London : Commonwealth Advisory Bureau, 2011.
Skanthakumar, Balasingham (ed). Rights, remittances, and reintegration : women migrant workers and returnees in Sri Lanka. Colombo : Law & Society Trust, 2011.
Kymlicka, Will and Kathryn Walker (eds). Rooted cosmopolitanism : Canada and the world. Vancouver : UBC Press, 2012.
Rostek, Michael and Peter Gizewski (eds). Security operations in the 21st century : Canadian perspectives on the comprehensive approach. Kingston, Ont. : Queen's Centre for International Relations, c2011.
Lewis, Patsy. Social policies in Grenada. London : Commonwealth Secretariat, 2010.
Ministry of Finance and National Planning. Social protection issues paper : report / prepared for the Government of Tonga. Tonga : Ministry of Finance and National Planning, 2010?
Hague, Cliff and Will French. The state of the cities : Why, and how, the Commonwealth must address the challenge of sustainable urbanisation. London : Commonwealth Secretariat, 2010.
Mangaliso, Mzamo P. Strategic choice under uncertainty : multinational corporations and the pressure to disinvest from South Africa . Lanham, Md. : University Press of America c2010.
Fiji Islands Bureau of Statistics. A study of the agriculture, forestry and fishing industries, 2008. Suva, Fiji : Fiji Islands Bureau of Statistics, 2011.
Allen, Liz. Sustainable population strategy : public policy and implementation challenges. Canberra, ACT : Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 2011.
Tonga. Ministry of Finance and National Planning. Tonga strategic development framework (TSDF) : 2011-2014. Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Ministry of Finance and National Planning, 2011.
Kaviraj, Sudipta. The trajectories of the Indian state : politics and ideas. Ranikhet : Permanent Black ; Bangalore : c2010.
Hiranandani, G. M. Transition to guardianship : the Indian navy 1991-2000. New Delhi : Published by Principal Director of Administration, Integrated Headquarters, Ministry of Defence (Navy) [in association with] Lancer Publishers, c2009.
Hayes, Geoffrey. Tuvalu national population policy 2010-2015 / prepared by Geoffrey Hayes with assistance from the Department of Planning and Budget, National Population Policy Taskforce and UNFPA Pacific Sub-Regional Office. Funafuti, Tuvalu : Department of Planning and Budget, Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, 2011.
Commonwealth Observer Group. Uganda presidential and parliamentary elections, 18 February 2011, report of the Commonwealth Observer Group. London : Commonwealth Secretariat, 2011.
Sen, Purna. Universal periodic review : lessons, hopes and expectations. London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2011.
Osumanu, Kanton I et al. Urban water and sanitation in Ghana : how local action is making a difference. London : IIED, 2010.
The 'Westminster model' and representative government in the era of decolonisation : a transcript of the proceedings of the seminar held on 25 May 2011. London ; Tonbridge : Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London : Overseas Service Pensioners' Association, 2012.
Commonwealth Observer Group. Zambia General Elections, 20 September 2011 : Report of the Commonwealth Observer Group. London : Commonwealth Secretariat, 2011.
Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J. The Zimbabwean nation-State project : a historical diagnosis of identity and power-based conflicts in a postcolonial State. Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2011
Thursday 11 October 2012
New books - September 2012 (Part 1)
Selected titles added to the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library in September (the first of two parts) included the following titles. Notable this month are included a number of Pacific governmental publications, and titles on Canada and India:
Tonga. Ministry of Finance and National Planning. 2nd national millennium development goals report : Tonga : status and progress between 1990-2010. Tonga : Ministry of Finance and National Planning, 2010.
Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer. 2010 annual report of the Chief Electoral Officer : the Election Finances and Contributions Disclosure Act for the calendar year 2010. Edmonton, Alb. : Chief Electoral Office, 2011.
Broome, Richard. Aboriginal Australians : a history since 1788. Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2010.
Prince, Michael J. Absent citizens : disability politics and policy in Canada. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2009.
Pillay, Gerald J. Albert Luthuli. Cape Town : HSRC Press, 2012.
Bachan, Keshet et al. Because you're a girl : growing up in the Commonwealth. London : Royal Commonwealth Society : Plan UK, [2011]
Brown, Walton. Bermuda and the struggle for reform : race, politics and ideology, 1944-1998. [Bermuda] : Cahow Press, 2011.
Taylor, Christopher. The Black Carib Wars : freedom, survival, and the making of the Garifuna. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2012.
Ghandhi, Sandy (ed). Blackstone's international human rights documents. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Bowen, H.V., Elizabeth Mancke, and John G. Reid (eds). Britain's oceanic empire : Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds, c. 1550-1850. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Commonwealth Observer Group. Cameroon presidential election : 9 October 2011. Report of the Commonwealth Observer Group. London : Commonwealth Secretariat, 2012.
Hynek , Nik and David Bosold (eds). Canada's foreign & security policy : soft and hard strategies of a middle power. Don Mills, Ont. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Forkey, Neil S. Canadians and the natural environment to the twenty-first century. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2012.
Rumney, Thomas A. Caribbean geography : a scholarly bibliography. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2012.
Cao, Huhua and Vivienne Poy (eds). The China challenge : Sino-Canadian relations in the 21st century. Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, c2011.
Jones-Parry, Rupert et al. Commonwealth good governance : democracy, development and public administration. Cambridge, UK : Nexus, 2011.
Cooper, Daisy. The Commonwealth in denial. London : Commonwealth Advisory Bureau, 2011.
Okia, Opolot. Communal labor in colonial Kenya : the legitimization of coercion, 1912-1930. New York, N.Y. ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Harding, Andrew. The constitution of Malaysia : a contextual analysis. Oxford : Hart, 2012.
Behiels, Michael D. and Matthew Hayday (eds). Contemporary Quebec : selected readings and commentaries. Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2011.
Gourevitch, Peter A., David A. Lake and Janice Gross Stein. The credibility of transnational NGOs : when virtue is not enough. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Keating, Michael and Caroline Smith. Critical issues facing Australia to 2025 : summary of a scenario development forum. Canberra : Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 2011.
Beidelman, T. O. The culture of colonialism : the cultural subjection of Ukaguru. Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2012.
Bryant, Rebecca and Yiannis Papadakis (eds). Cyprus and the politics of memory : history, community and conflict. New York : I.B. Tauris, 2012.
Theron, Jenny and Dorcas Ettang. Developing the mediation and post-conflict reconstruction and development pools of the African union peace and security department civilian standby roster : a research report based on a workshop held in Durban, South Africa from 14-15 April 2011... Durban : African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD), 2011.
Kapur, Devesh. Diaspora, development, and democracy : the domestic impact of international migration from India. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2010.
National Council of Welfare. The dollars and sense of solving poverty. Ottawa, Ont. : National Council of Welfare, c2011.
Shizha, Edward and Michael T. Kariwo. Education and development in Zimbabwe : a social, political and economic analysis. Rotterdam ; Boston : Sense, c2011.
Forsythe , David P., (editor in chief). Encyclopedia of human rights. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Fiji. Bureau of Statistics. Fiji classification of individual consumption according to purpose, 2010. Suva : Fiji Islands Bureau of Statistics, 2010.
Paquette, Jerald E. and Gérald Fallon. First Nations education policy in Canada : progress or gridlock? Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2010.
Konings, Piet. Gender and plantation labour in Africa : the story of tea pluckers' struggles in Cameroon. Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa groupe d’intiative commune en recherche et publication, 2012.
Ackah, Charles and Ernest Aryeetey (eds). Globalization, trade and poverty in Ghana. Accra, Ghana : Sub-Saharan, 2012.
Balachandran, G. Globalizing labour? : Indian seafarers and world shipping, c.1870-1945. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Chew, Emrys and Chong Guan Kwa (eds). Goh Keng Swee : a legacy of public service. Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2012.
Sturman, Rachel. The government of social life in colonial India : liberalism, religious law, and women's rights. New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Grönwall, Jenny T., Martin Mulenga and Gordon McGranahan. Groundwater, self-supply and poor urban dwellers : a review with case studies of Bangalore and Lusaka. London : IIED, c2010.
Pushpangadan K. and V.N. Balasubramanyam (eds). Growth, development, and diversity : India's record since liberalization. New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Nagaraj, R. (ed). Growth, inequality and social development in India : is inclusive growth possible? Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Foxhall, Katherine. Health, medicine, and the sea : Australian voyages, c.1815-60. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2012.
Hevia, James. The imperial security state : British colonial knowledge and empire-building in Asia. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Shah, Alpa. In the shadows of the state : indigenous politics, environmentalism, and insurgency in Jharkhand, India. Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010.
Gandhi, Ankita et al. India human development report 2011 : towards social inclusion. New Delhi : Institute of Applied Manpower Research, Planning Commission, Govt. of India : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Lockwood, David. The Indian bourgeoisie : a political history of the Indian capitalist class in the early twentieth century. London; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2012.
Mujumdar, N. A. India's new development agenda : building a value-based society. New Delhi : Academic Foundation, 2011.
Douglas, Heather and Mark Finnane. Indigenous crime and settler law : white sovereignty after empire. Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Francis, Suzanne. Institutionalizing elites : political elite formation and change in the KwaZulu-Natal provincial legislature. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, c2011.
Dowell, J. A. E. K. Intelligence for the Canadian Army in the 21st century : "enabling land operations". [Ottawa] : Dept. of National Defence, c2011.
Tonga. Ministry of Finance and National Planning. 2nd national millennium development goals report : Tonga : status and progress between 1990-2010. Tonga : Ministry of Finance and National Planning, 2010.
Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer. 2010 annual report of the Chief Electoral Officer : the Election Finances and Contributions Disclosure Act for the calendar year 2010. Edmonton, Alb. : Chief Electoral Office, 2011.
Broome, Richard. Aboriginal Australians : a history since 1788. Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2010.
Prince, Michael J. Absent citizens : disability politics and policy in Canada. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2009.
Pillay, Gerald J. Albert Luthuli. Cape Town : HSRC Press, 2012.
Bachan, Keshet et al. Because you're a girl : growing up in the Commonwealth. London : Royal Commonwealth Society : Plan UK, [2011]
Brown, Walton. Bermuda and the struggle for reform : race, politics and ideology, 1944-1998. [Bermuda] : Cahow Press, 2011.
Taylor, Christopher. The Black Carib Wars : freedom, survival, and the making of the Garifuna. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2012.
Ghandhi, Sandy (ed). Blackstone's international human rights documents. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Bowen, H.V., Elizabeth Mancke, and John G. Reid (eds). Britain's oceanic empire : Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds, c. 1550-1850. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Commonwealth Observer Group. Cameroon presidential election : 9 October 2011. Report of the Commonwealth Observer Group. London : Commonwealth Secretariat, 2012.
Hynek , Nik and David Bosold (eds). Canada's foreign & security policy : soft and hard strategies of a middle power. Don Mills, Ont. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Forkey, Neil S. Canadians and the natural environment to the twenty-first century. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2012.
Rumney, Thomas A. Caribbean geography : a scholarly bibliography. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2012.
Cao, Huhua and Vivienne Poy (eds). The China challenge : Sino-Canadian relations in the 21st century. Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, c2011.
Jones-Parry, Rupert et al. Commonwealth good governance : democracy, development and public administration. Cambridge, UK : Nexus, 2011.
Cooper, Daisy. The Commonwealth in denial. London : Commonwealth Advisory Bureau, 2011.
Okia, Opolot. Communal labor in colonial Kenya : the legitimization of coercion, 1912-1930. New York, N.Y. ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Harding, Andrew. The constitution of Malaysia : a contextual analysis. Oxford : Hart, 2012.
Behiels, Michael D. and Matthew Hayday (eds). Contemporary Quebec : selected readings and commentaries. Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2011.
Gourevitch, Peter A., David A. Lake and Janice Gross Stein. The credibility of transnational NGOs : when virtue is not enough. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Keating, Michael and Caroline Smith. Critical issues facing Australia to 2025 : summary of a scenario development forum. Canberra : Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 2011.
Beidelman, T. O. The culture of colonialism : the cultural subjection of Ukaguru. Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2012.
Bryant, Rebecca and Yiannis Papadakis (eds). Cyprus and the politics of memory : history, community and conflict. New York : I.B. Tauris, 2012.
Theron, Jenny and Dorcas Ettang. Developing the mediation and post-conflict reconstruction and development pools of the African union peace and security department civilian standby roster : a research report based on a workshop held in Durban, South Africa from 14-15 April 2011... Durban : African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD), 2011.
Kapur, Devesh. Diaspora, development, and democracy : the domestic impact of international migration from India. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2010.
National Council of Welfare. The dollars and sense of solving poverty. Ottawa, Ont. : National Council of Welfare, c2011.
Shizha, Edward and Michael T. Kariwo. Education and development in Zimbabwe : a social, political and economic analysis. Rotterdam ; Boston : Sense, c2011.
Forsythe , David P., (editor in chief). Encyclopedia of human rights. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Fiji. Bureau of Statistics. Fiji classification of individual consumption according to purpose, 2010. Suva : Fiji Islands Bureau of Statistics, 2010.
Paquette, Jerald E. and Gérald Fallon. First Nations education policy in Canada : progress or gridlock? Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2010.
Konings, Piet. Gender and plantation labour in Africa : the story of tea pluckers' struggles in Cameroon. Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa groupe d’intiative commune en recherche et publication, 2012.
Ackah, Charles and Ernest Aryeetey (eds). Globalization, trade and poverty in Ghana. Accra, Ghana : Sub-Saharan, 2012.
Balachandran, G. Globalizing labour? : Indian seafarers and world shipping, c.1870-1945. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Chew, Emrys and Chong Guan Kwa (eds). Goh Keng Swee : a legacy of public service. Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2012.
Sturman, Rachel. The government of social life in colonial India : liberalism, religious law, and women's rights. New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Grönwall, Jenny T., Martin Mulenga and Gordon McGranahan. Groundwater, self-supply and poor urban dwellers : a review with case studies of Bangalore and Lusaka. London : IIED, c2010.
Pushpangadan K. and V.N. Balasubramanyam (eds). Growth, development, and diversity : India's record since liberalization. New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Nagaraj, R. (ed). Growth, inequality and social development in India : is inclusive growth possible? Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Foxhall, Katherine. Health, medicine, and the sea : Australian voyages, c.1815-60. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2012.
Hevia, James. The imperial security state : British colonial knowledge and empire-building in Asia. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Shah, Alpa. In the shadows of the state : indigenous politics, environmentalism, and insurgency in Jharkhand, India. Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010.
Gandhi, Ankita et al. India human development report 2011 : towards social inclusion. New Delhi : Institute of Applied Manpower Research, Planning Commission, Govt. of India : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Lockwood, David. The Indian bourgeoisie : a political history of the Indian capitalist class in the early twentieth century. London; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2012.
Mujumdar, N. A. India's new development agenda : building a value-based society. New Delhi : Academic Foundation, 2011.
Douglas, Heather and Mark Finnane. Indigenous crime and settler law : white sovereignty after empire. Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Francis, Suzanne. Institutionalizing elites : political elite formation and change in the KwaZulu-Natal provincial legislature. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, c2011.
Dowell, J. A. E. K. Intelligence for the Canadian Army in the 21st century : "enabling land operations". [Ottawa] : Dept. of National Defence, c2011.
Wednesday 10 October 2012
Bridget Jones Travel Award: Call for Applications
Bridget Jones Travel Award: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Arts researchers or practitioners living and working in the Caribbean are eligible to apply for the Bridget Jones Travel Award, the deadline for which is the 14th January 2013. The winner of the award will present their work at the 37th Society for Caribbean Studies Annual Conference, which is scheduled to be held at the University of Warwick from the 3rd - 5th July 2013.
Eligibility
If you are an arts practitioner living and working in any region of the Anglophone, Hispanic, Francophone or Dutch speaking Caribbean, you may apply for the Award. The successful recipient will receive £650 towards travel expenses and, in addition, a full bursary to cover conference fees and accommodation. Applications are especially welcome from individuals with no institutional affiliations. We encourage applications from across the arts: from visual artists, performers, creative writers, film-makers, folklorists, playwrights etc.
How To Apply
To apply for the Award you must submit the following:
* A covering letter
* Curriculum vitae (no more than 4 sides of A4)
* Statements from 2 referees who are able to comment on your work
AND either
(a) A proposal for a presentation of your work in the areas of film, literature, visual or performing arts.
or
(b) A proposal for a reading of original creative work.
Presentations normally last for up to one hour, including time for questions from the audience. The most important part of your application will therefore be a full description of the proposed presentation detailing the themes and rationale behind the presentation, as well as how the presentation will be organised and any props required (e.g. if intending to screen clips of films; show slides of artwork; incorporate live performance etc).
Applications and enquiries should be sent by e-mail to Eva Sansavior on Eva.Sansavior@ul.ie
Completed applications must be received by 14th January 2013. A decision will be made by the committee in late January.
For more information on the Bridget Jones Travel Award and the Society for Caribbean Studies, visit the Society website on www.caribbeanstudies.org.
Arts researchers or practitioners living and working in the Caribbean are eligible to apply for the Bridget Jones Travel Award, the deadline for which is the 14th January 2013. The winner of the award will present their work at the 37th Society for Caribbean Studies Annual Conference, which is scheduled to be held at the University of Warwick from the 3rd - 5th July 2013.
Eligibility
If you are an arts practitioner living and working in any region of the Anglophone, Hispanic, Francophone or Dutch speaking Caribbean, you may apply for the Award. The successful recipient will receive £650 towards travel expenses and, in addition, a full bursary to cover conference fees and accommodation. Applications are especially welcome from individuals with no institutional affiliations. We encourage applications from across the arts: from visual artists, performers, creative writers, film-makers, folklorists, playwrights etc.
How To Apply
To apply for the Award you must submit the following:
* A covering letter
* Curriculum vitae (no more than 4 sides of A4)
* Statements from 2 referees who are able to comment on your work
AND either
(a) A proposal for a presentation of your work in the areas of film, literature, visual or performing arts.
or
(b) A proposal for a reading of original creative work.
Presentations normally last for up to one hour, including time for questions from the audience. The most important part of your application will therefore be a full description of the proposed presentation detailing the themes and rationale behind the presentation, as well as how the presentation will be organised and any props required (e.g. if intending to screen clips of films; show slides of artwork; incorporate live performance etc).
Applications and enquiries should be sent by e-mail to Eva Sansavior on Eva.Sansavior@ul.ie
Completed applications must be received by 14th January 2013. A decision will be made by the committee in late January.
For more information on the Bridget Jones Travel Award and the Society for Caribbean Studies, visit the Society website on www.caribbeanstudies.org.
Tuesday 9 October 2012
Commonwealth Research Seminar Series: What is the Institute of Commonwealth Studies?
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies cordially invites you to attend the following event.
Wednesday 17 October, 17:30 - 18:30
Commonwealth Research Seminar Series: What is the Institute of Commonwealth Studies?
Professor Philip Murphy, Director of ICwS
Venue: Room 261 (Senate House, second floor)
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
For further information, please contact ics@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 17 October, 17:30 - 18:30
Commonwealth Research Seminar Series: What is the Institute of Commonwealth Studies?
Professor Philip Murphy, Director of ICwS
Venue: Room 261 (Senate House, second floor)
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
For further information, please contact ics@sas.ac.uk
Monday 8 October 2012
Disciplinarity, multi- and interdisciplinarity in Area Studies
School of Advanced Study: Dean's Seminar
Disciplinarity, multi- and interdisciplinarity in Area Studies
10 October 2012, 12:30 - 14:00
Dr Bala Chandramohan, (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
The presentation will discuss knowledge taxonomies used in academia. How are ‘disciplines’ established and the terms multi- and inter-disciplinarity used? Is disciplinary pursuit of knowledge more rigorous than that of multi-or trans-disciplinary ones? Examples of ‘area’ studies (geographical or activity-based) would be used in the discussion. How does REF treat disciplinarity and multi/interdisciplinarity?
For further information, email sas.events@sas.ac.uk
Venue:
Room 246
Senate House
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU
Disciplinarity, multi- and interdisciplinarity in Area Studies
10 October 2012, 12:30 - 14:00
Dr Bala Chandramohan, (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
The presentation will discuss knowledge taxonomies used in academia. How are ‘disciplines’ established and the terms multi- and inter-disciplinarity used? Is disciplinary pursuit of knowledge more rigorous than that of multi-or trans-disciplinary ones? Examples of ‘area’ studies (geographical or activity-based) would be used in the discussion. How does REF treat disciplinarity and multi/interdisciplinarity?
For further information, email sas.events@sas.ac.uk
Venue:
Room 246
Senate House
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU
Commonwealth Scholarships – Trinidad and Tobago
Commonwealth Scholarships – Trinidad and Tobago
The Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago has invited the Commonwealth Scholarships Commission to nominate two candidates for Commonwealth Scholarships for Master’s and PhD study.
The scholarships are tenable at the University of the West Indies at St Augustine or the University of Trinidad and Tobago for the academic year commencing September 2013.
Eligibility
Citizens of Commonwealth countries other than Trinidad and Tobago
•Trinidad and Tobago Commonwealth Scholarships 2013 prospectus – includes full terms and conditions and eligibility criteria
Further information can also be found on the Scholarships and Advanced Training Division website.
Please note that the 30 November deadline given in the prospectus is for nominations to reach Trinidad and Tobago, not for applications to the CSC.
How to apply
•Application form
Your application form and one copy (two in total) must be sent in hard copy with supporting documents to:
Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK (HA)
c/o The Association of Commonwealth Universities
Woburn House
20-24 Tavistock Square
London
WC1H 9HF
The closing date for receipt of applications is 29 October 2012.
Please note that candidates nominated to the Government of Trinidad and Tobago will be required to complete an online application form.
For further information about the scholarship eligibility criteria and how to apply, email csfpout@acu.ac.uk
The Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago has invited the Commonwealth Scholarships Commission to nominate two candidates for Commonwealth Scholarships for Master’s and PhD study.
The scholarships are tenable at the University of the West Indies at St Augustine or the University of Trinidad and Tobago for the academic year commencing September 2013.
Eligibility
Citizens of Commonwealth countries other than Trinidad and Tobago
•Trinidad and Tobago Commonwealth Scholarships 2013 prospectus – includes full terms and conditions and eligibility criteria
Further information can also be found on the Scholarships and Advanced Training Division website.
Please note that the 30 November deadline given in the prospectus is for nominations to reach Trinidad and Tobago, not for applications to the CSC.
How to apply
•Application form
Your application form and one copy (two in total) must be sent in hard copy with supporting documents to:
Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK (HA)
c/o The Association of Commonwealth Universities
Woburn House
20-24 Tavistock Square
London
WC1H 9HF
The closing date for receipt of applications is 29 October 2012.
Please note that candidates nominated to the Government of Trinidad and Tobago will be required to complete an online application form.
For further information about the scholarship eligibility criteria and how to apply, email csfpout@acu.ac.uk
Wednesday 3 October 2012
Institute of Commonwealth Studies Talk/Book Launch: The Overseas Territories in Focus.
Institute of Commonwealth Studies Talk/Book Launch: The Overseas Territories in Focus.
Thursday 22 November 2012, 17:30 - 19:30.
Speakers:
Alan Huckle, Former Governor of Anguilla and the Falkland Islands, and ex-Head of the FCO's Overseas Territories Directorate. Chair: Peter Clegg, Senior Lecturer in Politics, UWE.
Organised by: Institute of Commonwealth Studies.
Venue: Room STB6.
Venue Details: Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DN.
In collaboration with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the University of the West of England.
This event launches the recent Institute of Commonwealth Studies publication The non-independent territories of the Caribbean and Pacific: Continuity or change? by Peter Clegg and David Killingray.
See: http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/events/forthcoming-events/
Thursday 22 November 2012, 17:30 - 19:30.
Speakers:
Alan Huckle, Former Governor of Anguilla and the Falkland Islands, and ex-Head of the FCO's Overseas Territories Directorate. Chair: Peter Clegg, Senior Lecturer in Politics, UWE.
Organised by: Institute of Commonwealth Studies.
Venue: Room STB6.
Venue Details: Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DN.
In collaboration with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the University of the West of England.
This event launches the recent Institute of Commonwealth Studies publication The non-independent territories of the Caribbean and Pacific: Continuity or change? by Peter Clegg and David Killingray.
See: http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/events/forthcoming-events/
Tuesday 2 October 2012
UK - Belize Association (UKBA) 15th Annual meeting
UK - Belize Association (UKBA) 15th Annual Meeting
28 September 2012
Lecture Theatre
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE)
Programme
11.00 Arrival and registration (Coffee)
11.30 Welcome with some personal reflections on Belize – – Prof Stephen Blackmore, RBGE
11.45 Opening remarks - HE Ms Perla Perdoma, Belize High Commissioner, London.
12.15 Upper Raspaculo Reunion Expedition 2011 – Jim Hamersley, JSSEUR
12.30 The Savanna Environments of Belize - Some Preliminary Ideas on Priority Areas for Conservation. Dr Neil Stuart & Prof Peter Furley, University of Edinburgh
13.15 Buffet Lunch – walk around gardens
14.00 Live Update from Las Cuevas and the Chiquibul Forest – Rafael Manzanero, FCD & Chris Minty, RBGE
14.15 The demise of the Cayo West Special Development Area – Dr Mick Day, University of Wisconsin
14.45 The Superbond Issue – Prof Victor Bulmer Thomas, Institute of the Americas, University College London.
15.15 Coffee
15.30 Belize's forests: a carbon source? Insights from the permanent plot network - Percival Cho, Belize Forest Department & University of Lancaster
15.50 The Development of Freshwater Monitoring and Assessment in Belize' Rachael Carrie
16.10 Wick High School Expedition 2013 – Irene Bews & Ally Sangster, Adventura Scotland
16. 30 Discussion on the way forward for UK Belize Association and any other business.
17.00 Close
Everyone is invited to an informal beer - details of venue will be announced on the day.
29th September
11.00 Tour of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh by a team of RBGE hosts
For registration and further details please email: c.minty@rbge.org.uk
28 September 2012
Lecture Theatre
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE)
Programme
11.00 Arrival and registration (Coffee)
11.30 Welcome with some personal reflections on Belize – – Prof Stephen Blackmore, RBGE
11.45 Opening remarks - HE Ms Perla Perdoma, Belize High Commissioner, London.
12.15 Upper Raspaculo Reunion Expedition 2011 – Jim Hamersley, JSSEUR
12.30 The Savanna Environments of Belize - Some Preliminary Ideas on Priority Areas for Conservation. Dr Neil Stuart & Prof Peter Furley, University of Edinburgh
13.15 Buffet Lunch – walk around gardens
14.00 Live Update from Las Cuevas and the Chiquibul Forest – Rafael Manzanero, FCD & Chris Minty, RBGE
14.15 The demise of the Cayo West Special Development Area – Dr Mick Day, University of Wisconsin
14.45 The Superbond Issue – Prof Victor Bulmer Thomas, Institute of the Americas, University College London.
15.15 Coffee
15.30 Belize's forests: a carbon source? Insights from the permanent plot network - Percival Cho, Belize Forest Department & University of Lancaster
15.50 The Development of Freshwater Monitoring and Assessment in Belize' Rachael Carrie
16.10 Wick High School Expedition 2013 – Irene Bews & Ally Sangster, Adventura Scotland
16. 30 Discussion on the way forward for UK Belize Association and any other business.
17.00 Close
Everyone is invited to an informal beer - details of venue will be announced on the day.
29th September
11.00 Tour of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh by a team of RBGE hosts
For registration and further details please email: c.minty@rbge.org.uk
Monday 1 October 2012
IHR Seminars: Imperial and World History
IHR Seminars: Imperial and World History
Convenors: Richard Drayton (KCL), Sarah Stockwell (KCL), John Stuart (Kingston), David Todd (KCL), Jon Wilson (KCL).
Venue: As announced by each date
Time: Monday, 5.15pm
Our theme for the 2012-2013 academic year will be Economy and Society. In the other two terms of 2012-2013, we will have contributions to the seminar from, among others, Paul Kennedy (Yale), Emma Rothschild (Harvard), Jennifer Altehenger (KCL), Pernille Roge (Pittsburgh), and Tamson Pietsch (Brunel).
Intercalated with the Imperial & World History seminar is the Colonialism/Postcolonial New Researchers Workshop.
Colonial / Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop
Venue: Athlone Room 102, Senate House, South block , 1st floor
Convenors: Hilary Ingram (UCL) hilary.ingram.09@ucl.ac.uk, Rob Waters (Queen Mary) r.w.waters@qmul.ac.uk, Feriel Kisson (KCL) feriel.kissoon@kcl.ac.uk, David Winks (Queen Mary) davidwinks250@hotmail.com
Autumn Term 2012 Date Seminar details
4 October Jon Lawrence (Cambridge), Jeremy Krikler (Essex), Camilla Schofield at UEA, with a response from Bill Schwarz (Queen Mary)
Memories of Empire: A Roundtable on Bill Schwarz's 'The White Man's World'
Joint session with the Modern British History Seminar and the Reconfiguring the British History Seminar
Please note: this session is being held on a Thursday, in room 349 (third floor of Senate House).
8 October Patrick O'Brien (LSE)
Imperial Regimes and Mercantilist States in Narratives of Economic Divergence between the Occident and the Orient
Court Room, Senate House, first floor
15 October Tom Bentley (University of Sussex)
Reshaping the past: the lingering colonial present
Gary Blank (London School of Economics)
Whose Victim, Whose Struggle? Famine Iconography and Contested Representations of Biafra in Britain (1968-70)
Colonial / Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop
22 October Maxine Berg (Warwick)
Locations of Global History: Manufacturing Diversity in 18th and 21st
Torrington Room (104), Senate House, first floor
29 October Peter Mitchell (Queen Mary, University of London)
'The Eye of History': the India Office Records, the Hakluyt Society, and the fantasy of the all-seeing imperial archive
Colonial / Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop
Please note: this session begins at 17:30
5 November Lanver Mak (ICS)
Britons vs Britons: Class, crime and conflict among British non-elites in occupied Egypt, 1882-1922
Court Room, Senate House, first floor
12 November Andreas Heil (Leibnitz Institute of European History)
Missionary self-understandings in shifting circumstances. Missionaries in post-1947 India
Angharad Eyre (Queen Mary, University of London)
Converting Emotions: Possession and Power in Female Missionaries’ Writing about Native Converts
Colonial / Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop
19 November Catherine Hall (UCL), Dan Matlin (KCL) and Anthony Pereira (KCL), with responses from Francisco Bethencourt (KCL) and Adrian Pearce (KCL) and contributors to the book.
Racism and Ethnic Relations in the Portuguese-Speaking World: A Roundtable
Torrington Room (104), Senate House, first floor
26 November Joanna Frew (University of Essex)
Identity and Improvement in Eighteenth Century South India
Adrian Thomas (King's College London)
Calcutta Botanic Garden as an imperial landscape
Colonial / Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop
10 December Sabrina Rahman (School of Advanced Study, University of London)
Empires of Design: Austria, Britain, and the Global Consumption of Modernity, 1851-1934
Colonial / Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop
For updates please see the IHR website http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/
Convenors: Richard Drayton (KCL), Sarah Stockwell (KCL), John Stuart (Kingston), David Todd (KCL), Jon Wilson (KCL).
Venue: As announced by each date
Time: Monday, 5.15pm
Our theme for the 2012-2013 academic year will be Economy and Society. In the other two terms of 2012-2013, we will have contributions to the seminar from, among others, Paul Kennedy (Yale), Emma Rothschild (Harvard), Jennifer Altehenger (KCL), Pernille Roge (Pittsburgh), and Tamson Pietsch (Brunel).
Intercalated with the Imperial & World History seminar is the Colonialism/Postcolonial New Researchers Workshop.
Colonial / Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop
Venue: Athlone Room 102, Senate House, South block , 1st floor
Convenors: Hilary Ingram (UCL) hilary.ingram.09@ucl.ac.uk, Rob Waters (Queen Mary) r.w.waters@qmul.ac.uk, Feriel Kisson (KCL) feriel.kissoon@kcl.ac.uk, David Winks (Queen Mary) davidwinks250@hotmail.com
Autumn Term 2012 Date Seminar details
4 October Jon Lawrence (Cambridge), Jeremy Krikler (Essex), Camilla Schofield at UEA, with a response from Bill Schwarz (Queen Mary)
Memories of Empire: A Roundtable on Bill Schwarz's 'The White Man's World'
Joint session with the Modern British History Seminar and the Reconfiguring the British History Seminar
Please note: this session is being held on a Thursday, in room 349 (third floor of Senate House).
8 October Patrick O'Brien (LSE)
Imperial Regimes and Mercantilist States in Narratives of Economic Divergence between the Occident and the Orient
Court Room, Senate House, first floor
15 October Tom Bentley (University of Sussex)
Reshaping the past: the lingering colonial present
Gary Blank (London School of Economics)
Whose Victim, Whose Struggle? Famine Iconography and Contested Representations of Biafra in Britain (1968-70)
Colonial / Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop
22 October Maxine Berg (Warwick)
Locations of Global History: Manufacturing Diversity in 18th and 21st
Torrington Room (104), Senate House, first floor
29 October Peter Mitchell (Queen Mary, University of London)
'The Eye of History': the India Office Records, the Hakluyt Society, and the fantasy of the all-seeing imperial archive
Colonial / Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop
Please note: this session begins at 17:30
5 November Lanver Mak (ICS)
Britons vs Britons: Class, crime and conflict among British non-elites in occupied Egypt, 1882-1922
Court Room, Senate House, first floor
12 November Andreas Heil (Leibnitz Institute of European History)
Missionary self-understandings in shifting circumstances. Missionaries in post-1947 India
Angharad Eyre (Queen Mary, University of London)
Converting Emotions: Possession and Power in Female Missionaries’ Writing about Native Converts
Colonial / Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop
19 November Catherine Hall (UCL), Dan Matlin (KCL) and Anthony Pereira (KCL), with responses from Francisco Bethencourt (KCL) and Adrian Pearce (KCL) and contributors to the book.
Racism and Ethnic Relations in the Portuguese-Speaking World: A Roundtable
Torrington Room (104), Senate House, first floor
26 November Joanna Frew (University of Essex)
Identity and Improvement in Eighteenth Century South India
Adrian Thomas (King's College London)
Calcutta Botanic Garden as an imperial landscape
Colonial / Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop
10 December Sabrina Rahman (School of Advanced Study, University of London)
Empires of Design: Austria, Britain, and the Global Consumption of Modernity, 1851-1934
Colonial / Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop
For updates please see the IHR website http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/
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