Invading the Waikato: A postcolonial re-view

The article discusses images of the Waikato Region of New Zealand from the 1860s, examining them within the context of British colonization and invasion. It comments on photographs by surveyor Daniel Manders Beere and British Army Royal Artillery Regiment Assistant Surgeon William Temple. The author also comments on a map of New Zealand's North Island made by surveyor Charles Heaphy and a map of Newcastle, New Zealand, depicting its earlier names of Ngāruawāhia and Queenstown. Other topics include spatial history, postcolonialism, and the 1863 to 1864 British invasion of Waikato

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Learning from the Past

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Controlling the Borders: C-31 and Interdiction

This paper examines elements in the Bill C-31 package that relate to interdiction, setting them in the context of the failure of the international human rights to effectively protect the right to seek asylum. The Bill C-31 proposals are shown to be a continuation of longstanding Canadian policies and practices, as well as a reflection of international (particularly Western) preoccupations with migrant smuggling and trafficking in persons, especially as evidenced in the recently negotiated protocols to the un Convention against Transnational Organized Crime.Cet article examine les elements dans le paquet de législations du projet de loi C-31 reliés à l’interception, les plaçant dans le contexte du manque de protection efficace du droit de chercher asile dans le cadre du système international des droits humains. Il est démontré que le projet de loi C-31 est en fait une continuation de politiques et de pratiques canadiennes bien-établies, qui reflètent en même temps des préoccupations internationales (particulièrement celles des pays Occidentaux) avec le trafic illicite de migrants et la traite de personnes, spécialement comme cela s’est vu dans les Protocoles additionnels récemment négociés à la Convention des Nations Unies contre la Criminalité Transnationale Organisée

That’s My Dad in Action! Fatherhood and Masculinity in the Action Adventure Genre 1980-2000: Schwarzenegger and Stallone

An analysis of recent Hollywood action adventure films starring Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger reveals that the presence or absence of fatherhood serves as a trope for representing the traditional and changing patriarchal ideology in the cultural, political, and economic uncertainty that has come to characterize life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. By contextualizing my work through current gender and genre theory, in and considering shifts in contemporary domestic policies, socio-cultural tensions and anxieties surrounding masculinity and femininity, fatherhood and motherhood, I chart developments in the hard body action adventure genre. A close analysis of Stallone’s and Schwarzenegger’s performances as fathers from the 1980s through the 2000s reveal that fatherhood is hidden in the 1980s, flaunted and softened in the 1990s, and reconfigured in the 2000s along more traditional patriarchal lines. Of interest is the impact of melodrama on the hard bodied action film