Kanishka Jayasuriya (Adelaide): Building Citizens: Empire, Asia and the Australian Settlement. Aboriginal people and the deferral of the rule of law: Desmond Manderson on how the language of "emergency" is used to suspend legal principles. From the inaugural issue of Settler Colonial Studies, an introduction to the journal; Scott Lauria Morgensen (Queen's): The Biopolitics of Settler Colonialism: Right Here, Right Now; and a review of Urbanizing Frontiers: Indigenous Peoples and Settlers in 19th-Century Pacific Rim Cities by Penelope Edmonds and Unlearning the Colonial Cultures of Planning by Libby Porter. Alia Somani (UWO): The Apology and its Aftermath: National Atonement or the Management of Minorities? From Geist, how did it come about that the indigenous people acquired a reputation for irresponsibility and laziness? From the International Indigenous Policy Journal, Joanna R. Quinn (UWO): Canada’s Own Brand of Truth and Reconciliation?; and Janique Dubois (Toronto): Beyond Territory: Revisiting the Normative Justification of Self-Government in Theory and Practice. A review of Chocolate, Women and Empire: A Social and Cultural History by Emma Robertson. A review of To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland's Global Diaspora 1750-2010 by Tom Devine. Simon Schama on this “imperial calamity” Americans inherited from Britain (and more and more by Maya Jasanoff). Andras Tarnoc (EKTF): Narratives of Confinement: Revisiting the Founding Myths of American Culture. Carolyn Liebler and Meghan Zacher (Minnesota): The Case of the Missing Ethnicity: Indians Without Tribes in the 21st Century. Michael C. Blumm (Lewis and Clark): Why Aboriginal Title is a Fee Simple Absolute. Americans like to celebrate their Irish and Scottish roots, but not their English ones — why is that?
