Dominic Alessio
Biographic Data
| ID | 93393 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dominic Alessio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dominic |
| FAMILY NAME | Alessio |
| SIGNATURE | ALESSIO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Richmond, The American International University in London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Faith, folk and the far right: Racist and anti-racist Heathenry and occultism in Britain
Histories of Hate: The Radical Right in Aotearoa New Zealand, Matthew Cunningham, Marinus La Rooij and Paul Spoonley (eds) (2022)
Review of: Histories of Hate: The Radical Right in Aotearoa New Zealand , Matthew Cunningham, Marinus La Rooij and Paul Spoonley (eds) (2022) Otago: Otago University Press, 440 pp., ISBN 978 1 99004 840 1 (pbk), NZ$50
Re-thinking agents of empire: The role of the United Nations in the Indonesian occupation of West Papua
The years post-World War II were not necessarily a period of independence for everyone. This is especially the case for a number of Pacific locales, West Papua in particular, wherein one colonial power seems to have merely been switched for another. What is more, this takeover was done with the connivance of the United Nations (UN), a non-state agency which, following World War II, was designed to maintain the peace. By way of the 1969 UN-brokere…
Building empires litorally in the South China Sea: Artificial islands and contesting definitions of imperialism
Re-thinking Religion and Empire: Non-State Organizations from the Knights Hospitallers to Isis
This work suggests that empires do not have to be state-led by arguing that religious-political organizations can also create their own imperial demesnes. Moreover, it argues that there are additional ways for empires to expand other than conquest (through gift, purchase and lease), and that empires do not have to be large. By drawing attention to a variety of players and methods of expansion it re-thinks our understanding of what empires are. It…
Empire
1. Introduction Students of politics, from the most novice to the most credentialed, should understand that contestation, debate and dissensus in scholarly discourse are common. The study of empire as a form of political organization is no exception. Conclusions about empire are often connected to the disciplinary training of the scholars and students engaged in the task of conceptualizing and researching the topic. Professional historians, espec…
Empires and colonies in the modern world: A Global Perspective
Empires and colonies in the modern world: a global perspective." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 55(1), pp. 136–137
The Island of Thieves”: Rethinking Empire and the United States in Micronesia
This piece examines empire by purchase and lease in the Pacific and the manner by which the United States gained control over a series of strategically valuable islands in the region. Because Washington obtained its possessions partly through purchase and lease, and not via invasion, it argues that the United States can hide its standing as an empire. Therefore, this research suggests that the literature on empire, order, and hierarchy in interna…
Empire by treaty: Negotiating European expansion, 1600–1900
Empire by treaty: negotiating European expansion, 1600–1900." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 53(5), pp. 618–619
Spain, Germany and the United States in the Marshall Islands: Re-imagining the imperial in the Pacific
Like the spaces between islands on maps of the Pacific, there are gaps that exist in our historical understanding of this region of the world. This is especially true in relation to the history of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands. This study examines some of those forgotten-about spaces whilst focusing on the history of former European colonial powers whose own imperial stories have also been overlooked in this region, namely Spain and Germany…
Filibustering from Africa to the Americas: Non-State Actors and Empire
This article looks at dominant definitions of empire, in particular those emphasizing large polities as the sole agents of imperial expansion. By doing so, it draws attention to the overlooked role of filibusters: private, non-state actors who initiate unauthorized military endeavours, either in an attempt to carve out empires for themselves or for their home state. It demonstrates that filibustering is not a practice unique only to the Americas …
New Zealand's Empire
Iberian visions of the Pacific Ocean, 1507-1899
Iberian visions of the Pacific Ocean, 1507–1899." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 52(5), pp. 639–640
The dragon is not always red: The extreme right and ultra-nationalism in Wales
By focusing on the ultra-nationalism of the recently defunct Welsh Defence League (WDL), which in turn had a direct influence on the formation of its more infamous relation the English Defence League, this paper re-examines the long-entrenched discourses of competing nationalisms in Wales. By doing so, it highlights a tendency to emphasise only left-leaning cultural and linguistic nationalist types in that country's historiography, as opposed to …
The Voldemort of Imperial History: Rethinking Empire and US History
Frederick Jackson Turner (1861–1932), the American historian known for devising the “Frontier Thesis,” said that the United States was “an empire” and that expansion was the driving force of the nation's history (Colley 2006:373). Despite this assertion by so prominent an American intellectual, Colley points out that US imperialism is generally still only seen to operate in a very “narrow” sense, namely “in terms of overseas activities” (Colley 2…
Blackshirts for the twenty-first century? Fascism and the English Defence League
This paper examines the extent to which the English Defence League (EDL) may be considered fascist in form and ideology. First, it draws comparisons between the EDL and the squadristi of interwar Italy. Second, it explores how the EDL has negotiated a new political direction as it joins forces with the British Freedom Party (BFP). By adopting a theoretical framework of fascism as outlined by Roger Griffin, this work advocates that the EDL has tra…
Oceania: Neocolonialism, Nukes & Bones
Territorial Acquisitions Are Among the Landmarks of Our History’: The buying and leasing of imperial territory
This work focuses upon a method of expansion often overlooked when examining comparative aspects of the growth of empires, namely that territory can be attained through purchase or lease. It identifies a colonial process that, while seeming to have disappeared under the historical radar, remains one of the most powerful determiners of the modern world’s political landscape. It also suggests that empires, contrary to common belief, do not have to …
Unfinished empire: The global expansion of Britain
by John Darwin, London, Allen Lane, 2012, 496 pp., £25.00, ISBN 978 1 8461 4088 4 In the study of empire, various contenders are frequently put forward as being the largest. While Darwin’s Unfinish
Britain and Cyprus. Key Themes and Documents Since World War II
William Mallinson, (I. B. Tauris, London, 2011), 214 pp., ISBN 978 1 84885 456 7 (Hbk), £54.40 In a year when the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has lost hundreds of top secret files, many r
Decolonising James Cameron's Pandora: Imperial history and science fiction
The science fiction film Avatar will be examined in light of the social-political context in which it was written, demonstrating the director's highly charged critique of US foreign policy. Yet this paper also argues that the depiction of the alien native species remains problematic from a postcolonial perspective. "Decolonising Pandora" addresses too the ways that Avatar has been used for political ends by peoples throughout the world, while act…
Empires in world history: Power and the Politics of Difference
Science fiction and empire
by Patricia Kerslake, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2010 (first published 2007), 217 pp., £16.99 (paperback), ISBN 978 1 8463 1504 6 This is a book about the intimate relationship between
Geysers and ‘girls’: Gender, power and colonialism in Icelandic tourist imagery
This article examines shifts in the image of Iceland created for international tourism. It argues that at the beginning of the 21st century the more traditional spotlight on the country’s natural attractions was altered, giving an additional, new focus on the nation’s beautiful, and apparently sexually promiscuous, women. Such a development deserves further comment for a variety of reasons. First, an examination of the importance of women to Icel…
From body snatchers to mind snatchers: Indigenous science fiction, postcolonialism, and Aotearoa/New Zealand history
Science fiction from or about Aotearoa/New Zealand has received little critical attention. Such oversight is even more pronounced for those science fiction works produced by Māori and Pacific Island authors. This article draws attention to the significance of the genre in Aotearoa/New Zealand, in particular the contribution made by the Indigenous writers Witi Ihimaera and Albert Wendt. A focus on Indigenous science fiction demonstrates how the ge…
Unfinished empire: The global expansion of Britain
by John Darwin, London, Allen Lane, 2012, 496 pp., £25.00, ISBN 978 1 8461 4088 4 In the study of empire, various contenders are frequently put forward as being the largest. While Darwin’s Unfinish
Empires in world history: Power and the Politics of Difference
Empire by treaty: Negotiating European expansion, 1600–1900
Empire by treaty: negotiating European expansion, 1600–1900." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 53(5), pp. 618–619
The dragon is not always red: The extreme right and ultra-nationalism in Wales
By focusing on the ultra-nationalism of the recently defunct Welsh Defence League (WDL), which in turn had a direct influence on the formation of its more infamous relation the English Defence League, this paper re-examines the long-entrenched discourses of competing nationalisms in Wales. By doing so, it highlights a tendency to emphasise only left-leaning cultural and linguistic nationalist types in that country's historiography, as opposed to …
Blackshirts for the twenty-first century? Fascism and the English Defence League
This paper examines the extent to which the English Defence League (EDL) may be considered fascist in form and ideology. First, it draws comparisons between the EDL and the squadristi of interwar Italy. Second, it explores how the EDL has negotiated a new political direction as it joins forces with the British Freedom Party (BFP). By adopting a theoretical framework of fascism as outlined by Roger Griffin, this work advocates that the EDL has tra…
Territorial Acquisitions Are Among the Landmarks of Our History’: The buying and leasing of imperial territory
This work focuses upon a method of expansion often overlooked when examining comparative aspects of the growth of empires, namely that territory can be attained through purchase or lease. It identifies a colonial process that, while seeming to have disappeared under the historical radar, remains one of the most powerful determiners of the modern world’s political landscape. It also suggests that empires, contrary to common belief, do not have to …
Geysers and ‘girls’: Gender, power and colonialism in Icelandic tourist imagery
This article examines shifts in the image of Iceland created for international tourism. It argues that at the beginning of the 21st century the more traditional spotlight on the country’s natural attractions was altered, giving an additional, new focus on the nation’s beautiful, and apparently sexually promiscuous, women. Such a development deserves further comment for a variety of reasons. First, an examination of the importance of women to Icel…
Building empires litorally in the South China Sea: Artificial islands and contesting definitions of imperialism
Empire
1. Introduction Students of politics, from the most novice to the most credentialed, should understand that contestation, debate and dissensus in scholarly discourse are common. The study of empire as a form of political organization is no exception. Conclusions about empire are often connected to the disciplinary training of the scholars and students engaged in the task of conceptualizing and researching the topic. Professional historians, espec…
Empires and colonies in the modern world: A Global Perspective
Empires and colonies in the modern world: a global perspective." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 55(1), pp. 136–137
The Voldemort of Imperial History: Rethinking Empire and US History
Frederick Jackson Turner (1861–1932), the American historian known for devising the “Frontier Thesis,” said that the United States was “an empire” and that expansion was the driving force of the nation's history (Colley 2006:373). Despite this assertion by so prominent an American intellectual, Colley points out that US imperialism is generally still only seen to operate in a very “narrow” sense, namely “in terms of overseas activities” (Colley 2…
Decolonising James Cameron's Pandora: Imperial history and science fiction
The science fiction film Avatar will be examined in light of the social-political context in which it was written, demonstrating the director's highly charged critique of US foreign policy. Yet this paper also argues that the depiction of the alien native species remains problematic from a postcolonial perspective. "Decolonising Pandora" addresses too the ways that Avatar has been used for political ends by peoples throughout the world, while act…
From body snatchers to mind snatchers: Indigenous science fiction, postcolonialism, and Aotearoa/New Zealand history
Science fiction from or about Aotearoa/New Zealand has received little critical attention. Such oversight is even more pronounced for those science fiction works produced by Māori and Pacific Island authors. This article draws attention to the significance of the genre in Aotearoa/New Zealand, in particular the contribution made by the Indigenous writers Witi Ihimaera and Albert Wendt. A focus on Indigenous science fiction demonstrates how the ge…
Domesticating 'the heart of the wild: Female Personifications of the Colonies, 1886-1940[1]
British imperial propaganda has generally been perceived as a male arena which ignores the female presence in the empire story. This paper argues that women were central to empire imagery, particularly when they were used as symbols of the white colonies of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. Such female personifications represented a wide range of meaning, and depending on how they were interpreted and by whom, became ideal images f…
Domesticating 'the heart of the wild: Female Personifications of the Colonies, 1886-1940 [1]
British imperial propaganda has generally been perceived as a male arena which ignores the female presence in the empire story. This paper argues that women were central to empire imagery, particularly when they were used as symbols of the white colonies of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. Such female personifications represented a wide range of meaning, and depending on how they were interpreted and by whom, became ideal images f…
Domesticating 'the heart of the wild: Female Personifications of the Colonies, 1886-1940[1]
British imperial propaganda has generally been perceived as a male arena which ignores the female presence in the empire story. This paper argues that women were central to empire imagery, particularly when they were used as symbols of the white colonies of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. Such female personifications represented a wide range of meaning, and depending on how they were interpreted and by whom, became ideal images f…
Things are Different Now: A Postcolonial Analysis of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
(2001). 'Things are Different Now'?: A Postcolonial Analysis of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The European Legacy: Vol. 6, No. 6, pp. 731-740
Travel, tourism and booster literature: New Zealand's cities and towns at the turn of the twentieth century
New Zealand historiography focusing on tourism has tended to favour the rural over the urban. This paper argues that cities and towns were also the focus of much publicity for promoting migration and tourism to the country. As evidence it examines a generally overlooked historical source, booster texts. It suggests that such sources should be considered a genre of travel writing on the basis that they are targeted specifically at voyagers
Geysers and ‘girls’: Gender, power and colonialism in Icelandic tourist imagery
This article examines shifts in the image of Iceland created for international tourism. It argues that at the beginning of the 21st century the more traditional spotlight on the country’s natural attractions was altered, giving an additional, new focus on the nation’s beautiful, and apparently sexually promiscuous, women. Such a development deserves further comment for a variety of reasons. First, an examination of the importance of women to Icel…
From body snatchers to mind snatchers: Indigenous science fiction, postcolonialism, and Aotearoa/New Zealand history
Science fiction from or about Aotearoa/New Zealand has received little critical attention. Such oversight is even more pronounced for those science fiction works produced by Māori and Pacific Island authors. This article draws attention to the significance of the genre in Aotearoa/New Zealand, in particular the contribution made by the Indigenous writers Witi Ihimaera and Albert Wendt. A focus on Indigenous science fiction demonstrates how the ge…
Britain and Cyprus. Key Themes and Documents Since World War II
William Mallinson, (I. B. Tauris, London, 2011), 214 pp., ISBN 978 1 84885 456 7 (Hbk), £54.40 In a year when the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has lost hundreds of top secret files, many r
Decolonising James Cameron's Pandora: Imperial history and science fiction
The science fiction film Avatar will be examined in light of the social-political context in which it was written, demonstrating the director's highly charged critique of US foreign policy. Yet this paper also argues that the depiction of the alien native species remains problematic from a postcolonial perspective. "Decolonising Pandora" addresses too the ways that Avatar has been used for political ends by peoples throughout the world, while act…
Empires in world history: Power and the Politics of Difference
Science fiction and empire
by Patricia Kerslake, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2010 (first published 2007), 217 pp., £16.99 (paperback), ISBN 978 1 8463 1504 6 This is a book about the intimate relationship between
Territorial Acquisitions Are Among the Landmarks of Our History’: The buying and leasing of imperial territory
This work focuses upon a method of expansion often overlooked when examining comparative aspects of the growth of empires, namely that territory can be attained through purchase or lease. It identifies a colonial process that, while seeming to have disappeared under the historical radar, remains one of the most powerful determiners of the modern world’s political landscape. It also suggests that empires, contrary to common belief, do not have to …
Unfinished empire: The global expansion of Britain
by John Darwin, London, Allen Lane, 2012, 496 pp., £25.00, ISBN 978 1 8461 4088 4 In the study of empire, various contenders are frequently put forward as being the largest. While Darwin’s Unfinish
The Voldemort of Imperial History: Rethinking Empire and US History
Frederick Jackson Turner (1861–1932), the American historian known for devising the “Frontier Thesis,” said that the United States was “an empire” and that expansion was the driving force of the nation's history (Colley 2006:373). Despite this assertion by so prominent an American intellectual, Colley points out that US imperialism is generally still only seen to operate in a very “narrow” sense, namely “in terms of overseas activities” (Colley 2…
Blackshirts for the twenty-first century? Fascism and the English Defence League
This paper examines the extent to which the English Defence League (EDL) may be considered fascist in form and ideology. First, it draws comparisons between the EDL and the squadristi of interwar Italy. Second, it explores how the EDL has negotiated a new political direction as it joins forces with the British Freedom Party (BFP). By adopting a theoretical framework of fascism as outlined by Roger Griffin, this work advocates that the EDL has tra…
Oceania: Neocolonialism, Nukes & Bones
The dragon is not always red: The extreme right and ultra-nationalism in Wales
By focusing on the ultra-nationalism of the recently defunct Welsh Defence League (WDL), which in turn had a direct influence on the formation of its more infamous relation the English Defence League, this paper re-examines the long-entrenched discourses of competing nationalisms in Wales. By doing so, it highlights a tendency to emphasise only left-leaning cultural and linguistic nationalist types in that country's historiography, as opposed to …
Spain, Germany and the United States in the Marshall Islands: Re-imagining the imperial in the Pacific
Like the spaces between islands on maps of the Pacific, there are gaps that exist in our historical understanding of this region of the world. This is especially true in relation to the history of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands. This study examines some of those forgotten-about spaces whilst focusing on the history of former European colonial powers whose own imperial stories have also been overlooked in this region, namely Spain and Germany…
Filibustering from Africa to the Americas: Non-State Actors and Empire
This article looks at dominant definitions of empire, in particular those emphasizing large polities as the sole agents of imperial expansion. By doing so, it draws attention to the overlooked role of filibusters: private, non-state actors who initiate unauthorized military endeavours, either in an attempt to carve out empires for themselves or for their home state. It demonstrates that filibustering is not a practice unique only to the Americas …
New Zealand's Empire
Iberian visions of the Pacific Ocean, 1507-1899
Iberian visions of the Pacific Ocean, 1507–1899." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 52(5), pp. 639–640
The Island of Thieves”: Rethinking Empire and the United States in Micronesia
This piece examines empire by purchase and lease in the Pacific and the manner by which the United States gained control over a series of strategically valuable islands in the region. Because Washington obtained its possessions partly through purchase and lease, and not via invasion, it argues that the United States can hide its standing as an empire. Therefore, this research suggests that the literature on empire, order, and hierarchy in interna…
Empire by treaty: Negotiating European expansion, 1600–1900
Empire by treaty: negotiating European expansion, 1600–1900." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 53(5), pp. 618–619
Empires and colonies in the modern world: A Global Perspective
Empires and colonies in the modern world: a global perspective." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 55(1), pp. 136–137
Re-thinking Religion and Empire: Non-State Organizations from the Knights Hospitallers to Isis
This work suggests that empires do not have to be state-led by arguing that religious-political organizations can also create their own imperial demesnes. Moreover, it argues that there are additional ways for empires to expand other than conquest (through gift, purchase and lease), and that empires do not have to be large. By drawing attention to a variety of players and methods of expansion it re-thinks our understanding of what empires are. It…
Empire
1. Introduction Students of politics, from the most novice to the most credentialed, should understand that contestation, debate and dissensus in scholarly discourse are common. The study of empire as a form of political organization is no exception. Conclusions about empire are often connected to the disciplinary training of the scholars and students engaged in the task of conceptualizing and researching the topic. Professional historians, espec…
Political science (19 works) · Law (17 works) · Sociology (16 works) · History (15 works) · History (15 works) · Empire (14 works) · Politics (13 works) · Ancient history (10 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Australian History and Society (9 works)