Colin Samson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3615366 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colin Samson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colin |
| FAMILY NAME | Samson |
| SIGNATURE | SAMSON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6515-843X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Gaza and the Colonial Right to Self-defence: Legal Absurdities and the Circular Reasoning of Violence
This article critically examines the legal and political framing of the 7 October 2023 attacks and the subsequent Israeli military campaign in Gaza, challenging dominant narratives that present these events as historically isolated. The article is divided into four interrelated sections. First, by situating the 7 October attacks within the broader historical context of settler-colonial occupation, systemic dispossession, and ongoing restrictions …
Hewers of wood and drawers of water: English subaltern education from the charity schools to the neoliberal meritocracy of widening participation
British educational ideas and policies towards working-class and minority youth show continuous preoccupations with social status and preparation for labour. In examining this, we link educational discourses and practices in England from the Charity Schools to the contemporary higher education policy Widening Participation (WP). We argue that WP is heir to successive educational programmes that explicitly fit poor and marginalised youth to labour…
Questions and answers on Black Europe
Canada’s Strategy of Dispossession: Aboriginal Land and Rights Cessions in Comprehensive Land Claims
This paper offers a sociological interpretation of the Canadian Comprehensive Land Claims (CLC) process, arguing that CLC is a strategy used by the state to dispossess Aboriginal peoples. CLC does this through leveraging the cession of Aboriginal rights and the relinquishing of indigenous lands. Drawing upon the ongoing Innu Nation Tshash Petapen (‘New Dawn’) agreement, I examine four related aspects of the process and the agreement which operate…
The long reach of frontier justice: Canadian land claims ‘negotiation’ strategies as human rights violations
In this article, we argue that the Canadian land claims process is the product of a series of policies and laws directed at indigenous peoples which both denies them consent over the relinquishing of their lands, and is characterised by a lack of attention to the rights vested in indigenous peoples from colonial precedents. As a result, the contemporary Canadian land claims process does not measure up to the United Nations Declaration on Indigeno…
Environmental and health benefits of hunting lifestyles and diets for the Innu of Labrador
More on the Return of the Native
How the Inner Circle Deals with the Dispossessed
With the imminent publication of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the international community will soon produce standards on the rights of many small groups of people who were the objects of European colonization. This document addresses a highly sensitive arena of conflict because it affects many of what Paul Keal—in European Conquest and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples—refers to as the “inner circle” of power…
On the Return of the Native
Sexual Abuse and Assimilation: Oblates, Teachers and the Innu of Labrador
Sexual Abuse and Assimilation: Oblates, Teachers and Innu of Labrador
Culture and Rights: Anthropological Perspectives
Do people everywhere have the same, or even compatible, ideas about multiculturalism, indigenous rights or women's rights? The authors of this book move beyond the traditional terms of the universalism versus cultural relativism debate. Through detailed case-studies from around the world (Hawaii, France, Thailand, Botswana, Greece, Nepal and Canada) they explore the concrete effects of rights talk and rights institutions on people's lives
Overturning the burdens of the real: Nationalism and social science in Gerald Vizenor's recent works
The dispossession of the Innu and the colonial magic of Canadian Liberalism
This article examines the legal and philosophical grounds which are used by the nation state of Canada to dispossess aboriginal people who have not ceded land through treaties. Using the Innu people of the Labrador‐Quebec peninsula as an example, my thesis is that, far from being a neutral doctrine of rights and citizenship, liberalism functions as a magical, yet ethnocidal, instrument of colonial domination and land usurpation. I demonstrate thi…
American Indian Ethnic Renewal: Red Power and the Resurgence of Identity and Culture
Mestizaje, spiritual soundbites and the art of Rubén Trejo
Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States. James W. Trent, Jr
The fracturing of medical dominance in British psychiatry
Medical dominance is not a transhistorical and invariant property of the medical profession. Rather it is a set of occupational privileges that can be invoked or revoked according to changing alignments of political, economic and cultural power. Using the example of British psychiatry in the context of the health service reforms of the 1980s, it is argued that medical dominance may be fracturing as a result of the policy switch towards community …
The Three Faces of Privatisation
Starting from the premise that social policies represent solutions to socially constructed problems (Edelman 1987), this article presents an adaptation of Lukes's (1974) theory of power to consider three interpretations of privatisation as illustrated in Britain and the United States during the 1980s and early 1990s. Privatisation is most frequently presented in political and academic discourse as essentially a matter of contracting out public se…
Madness and Social Representations (Book)
Inequality, the New Right and mental health care delivery in the United States in the Reagan era
This essay draws upon research on mental health treatment and provision in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1988, and is part ofa wider US-UK com parative study. The main concern is to examine the linkages between pub lic policy and inequalities in mental health care delivery in one local area. In opposition to the concept of the welfare state, a primary stance of the New Right and of the Reagan administration has been the belief in the necessity of…
Age, Gender and Adultery
On the Return of the Native
Culture and Rights: Anthropological Perspectives
Do people everywhere have the same, or even compatible, ideas about multiculturalism, indigenous rights or women's rights? The authors of this book move beyond the traditional terms of the universalism versus cultural relativism debate. Through detailed case-studies from around the world (Hawaii, France, Thailand, Botswana, Greece, Nepal and Canada) they explore the concrete effects of rights talk and rights institutions on people's lives
Canada’s Strategy of Dispossession: Aboriginal Land and Rights Cessions in Comprehensive Land Claims
This paper offers a sociological interpretation of the Canadian Comprehensive Land Claims (CLC) process, arguing that CLC is a strategy used by the state to dispossess Aboriginal peoples. CLC does this through leveraging the cession of Aboriginal rights and the relinquishing of indigenous lands. Drawing upon the ongoing Innu Nation Tshash Petapen (‘New Dawn’) agreement, I examine four related aspects of the process and the agreement which operate…
Environmental and health benefits of hunting lifestyles and diets for the Innu of Labrador
The fracturing of medical dominance in British psychiatry
Medical dominance is not a transhistorical and invariant property of the medical profession. Rather it is a set of occupational privileges that can be invoked or revoked according to changing alignments of political, economic and cultural power. Using the example of British psychiatry in the context of the health service reforms of the 1980s, it is argued that medical dominance may be fracturing as a result of the policy switch towards community …
The dispossession of the Innu and the colonial magic of Canadian Liberalism
This article examines the legal and philosophical grounds which are used by the nation state of Canada to dispossess aboriginal people who have not ceded land through treaties. Using the Innu people of the Labrador‐Quebec peninsula as an example, my thesis is that, far from being a neutral doctrine of rights and citizenship, liberalism functions as a magical, yet ethnocidal, instrument of colonial domination and land usurpation. I demonstrate thi…
Age, Gender and Adultery
Questions and answers on Black Europe
The Three Faces of Privatisation
Starting from the premise that social policies represent solutions to socially constructed problems (Edelman 1987), this article presents an adaptation of Lukes's (1974) theory of power to consider three interpretations of privatisation as illustrated in Britain and the United States during the 1980s and early 1990s. Privatisation is most frequently presented in political and academic discourse as essentially a matter of contracting out public se…
The long reach of frontier justice: Canadian land claims ‘negotiation’ strategies as human rights violations
In this article, we argue that the Canadian land claims process is the product of a series of policies and laws directed at indigenous peoples which both denies them consent over the relinquishing of their lands, and is characterised by a lack of attention to the rights vested in indigenous peoples from colonial precedents. As a result, the contemporary Canadian land claims process does not measure up to the United Nations Declaration on Indigeno…
More on the Return of the Native
Sexual Abuse and Assimilation: Oblates, Teachers and Innu of Labrador
Inequality, the New Right and mental health care delivery in the United States in the Reagan era
This essay draws upon research on mental health treatment and provision in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1988, and is part ofa wider US-UK com parative study. The main concern is to examine the linkages between pub lic policy and inequalities in mental health care delivery in one local area. In opposition to the concept of the welfare state, a primary stance of the New Right and of the Reagan administration has been the belief in the necessity of…
Age, Gender and Adultery
Inequality, the New Right and mental health care delivery in the United States in the Reagan era
This essay draws upon research on mental health treatment and provision in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1988, and is part ofa wider US-UK com parative study. The main concern is to examine the linkages between pub lic policy and inequalities in mental health care delivery in one local area. In opposition to the concept of the welfare state, a primary stance of the New Right and of the Reagan administration has been the belief in the necessity of…
Madness and Social Representations (Book)
The Three Faces of Privatisation
Starting from the premise that social policies represent solutions to socially constructed problems (Edelman 1987), this article presents an adaptation of Lukes's (1974) theory of power to consider three interpretations of privatisation as illustrated in Britain and the United States during the 1980s and early 1990s. Privatisation is most frequently presented in political and academic discourse as essentially a matter of contracting out public se…
Mestizaje, spiritual soundbites and the art of Rubén Trejo
Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States. James W. Trent, Jr
The fracturing of medical dominance in British psychiatry
Medical dominance is not a transhistorical and invariant property of the medical profession. Rather it is a set of occupational privileges that can be invoked or revoked according to changing alignments of political, economic and cultural power. Using the example of British psychiatry in the context of the health service reforms of the 1980s, it is argued that medical dominance may be fracturing as a result of the policy switch towards community …
American Indian Ethnic Renewal: Red Power and the Resurgence of Identity and Culture
Overturning the burdens of the real: Nationalism and social science in Gerald Vizenor's recent works
The dispossession of the Innu and the colonial magic of Canadian Liberalism
This article examines the legal and philosophical grounds which are used by the nation state of Canada to dispossess aboriginal people who have not ceded land through treaties. Using the Innu people of the Labrador‐Quebec peninsula as an example, my thesis is that, far from being a neutral doctrine of rights and citizenship, liberalism functions as a magical, yet ethnocidal, instrument of colonial domination and land usurpation. I demonstrate thi…
Culture and Rights: Anthropological Perspectives
Do people everywhere have the same, or even compatible, ideas about multiculturalism, indigenous rights or women's rights? The authors of this book move beyond the traditional terms of the universalism versus cultural relativism debate. Through detailed case-studies from around the world (Hawaii, France, Thailand, Botswana, Greece, Nepal and Canada) they explore the concrete effects of rights talk and rights institutions on people's lives
Sexual Abuse and Assimilation: Oblates, Teachers and the Innu of Labrador
Sexual Abuse and Assimilation: Oblates, Teachers and Innu of Labrador
How the Inner Circle Deals with the Dispossessed
With the imminent publication of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the international community will soon produce standards on the rights of many small groups of people who were the objects of European colonization. This document addresses a highly sensitive arena of conflict because it affects many of what Paul Keal—in European Conquest and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples—refers to as the “inner circle” of power…
On the Return of the Native
Environmental and health benefits of hunting lifestyles and diets for the Innu of Labrador
More on the Return of the Native
The long reach of frontier justice: Canadian land claims ‘negotiation’ strategies as human rights violations
In this article, we argue that the Canadian land claims process is the product of a series of policies and laws directed at indigenous peoples which both denies them consent over the relinquishing of their lands, and is characterised by a lack of attention to the rights vested in indigenous peoples from colonial precedents. As a result, the contemporary Canadian land claims process does not measure up to the United Nations Declaration on Indigeno…
Canada’s Strategy of Dispossession: Aboriginal Land and Rights Cessions in Comprehensive Land Claims
This paper offers a sociological interpretation of the Canadian Comprehensive Land Claims (CLC) process, arguing that CLC is a strategy used by the state to dispossess Aboriginal peoples. CLC does this through leveraging the cession of Aboriginal rights and the relinquishing of indigenous lands. Drawing upon the ongoing Innu Nation Tshash Petapen (‘New Dawn’) agreement, I examine four related aspects of the process and the agreement which operate…
Questions and answers on Black Europe
Hewers of wood and drawers of water: English subaltern education from the charity schools to the neoliberal meritocracy of widening participation
British educational ideas and policies towards working-class and minority youth show continuous preoccupations with social status and preparation for labour. In examining this, we link educational discourses and practices in England from the Charity Schools to the contemporary higher education policy Widening Participation (WP). We argue that WP is heir to successive educational programmes that explicitly fit poor and marginalised youth to labour…
Gaza and the Colonial Right to Self-defence: Legal Absurdities and the Circular Reasoning of Violence
This article critically examines the legal and political framing of the 7 October 2023 attacks and the subsequent Israeli military campaign in Gaza, challenging dominant narratives that present these events as historically isolated. The article is divided into four interrelated sections. First, by situating the 7 October attacks within the broader historical context of settler-colonial occupation, systemic dispossession, and ongoing restrictions …
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law (6 works) · Indigenous (5 works) · Canadian Identity and History (4 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works)