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Mobility, Sexuality And Civilisation: Settlers, Strangers, Nomads And Gypsies In The Pacific To 1910, Nan Seuffert
Mobility, Sexuality And Civilisation: Settlers, Strangers, Nomads And Gypsies In The Pacific To 1910, Nan Seuffert
Professor Nan Seuffert
Settlers in British colonies, and settlement house workers in urban America in the nineteenth century, saw themselves as bringing civilisation to urban primitives, noble savages and savage immigrants. Civilisation in Europe and the colonies was often tied to land, the settlement of land, agriculture and cultivation. Nomads, gypsies, immigrants, itinerant labourers, tramps and other derogatorily defined mobile populations, were often constructed in relation to settlers, missionaries and explorers, who were associated with the civis, city, and civilisation. Yet settlers were themselves immigrants, explorers were often part of itinerant populations, and missionaries and colonial officials were mobile as well. This paper …
"Law's Outsiders": An Interview With Alex Sharpe, Linnéa Wegerstad, Niklas Selberg
"Law's Outsiders": An Interview With Alex Sharpe, Linnéa Wegerstad, Niklas Selberg
Linnéa Wegerstad
In May 2012 Alex Sharpe, Professor of Law at Keele University, UK, visited Lund University where she participated in a series of seminars and workshops organised around a central motif in her work: the legal outsider. As part of her visit she presented a version of a paper recently published in the Modern Law Review titled “Transgender Marriage and the Legal Obligation to Disclose Gender History.” The paper focused on and challenged the legal and wider cultural framing of non-disclosure of gender history as harmful and as unethical. The paper is her latest intervention and forms part of a substantial …