The 'Good Friday' Agreement, approved in referenda on both sides of the Irish border, inaugurated a 'post-Troubles' period of hope for economic prosperity and urban regeneration. Since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, there had been extraordinary transformation in Northern Ireland's society and culture. A protracted peace process, fraught with disturbances and setbacks, led to an internationally celebrated accord between political parties and the establishment of new devolved institutions of government. The Good Friday Agreement was a political deal with an ambiguous outcome; a momentous accord followed by ongoing, arduous disagreement and disengagement. The Troubles appeared to reach an official conclusion as a result of the political parties and national governments arriving at an agreed solution. The Good Friday Agreement activated contradictions in ways discernible as either liberating or newly restrictive. In The marches, Phil Collins asserted representational contradiction in the context of post-conflict resolution.

When contemporary art became a market phenomenon in the major metropolitan centres during the 1990s, it was expanded, but also, at the same time, divided, by an influx of art from other regions of the world. It is important to remember that the workings of the global art world affect not only artists from non-Western countries, but also those in Western countries with a well-functioning art-institutional infrastructure as well. To use the phraseology of the literary scholar Sudesh Mishra, the sociocultural condition of a migrant can be seen as a 'scene of dual territory'. This chapter argues that the migratory pattern of artists, who have chosen to be based in their home country, but must live as globetrotters and engage with different cultures and places in order to pursue international careers, could best be described as circular migration.

Only after the Evidence Further Amendment Act 1876 provided for a witness to make a declaration in lieu of an oath was testimony by Aboriginal people readily admissible in courts of law in New South Wales (NSW). This chapter examines proposals, from 1838 to 1876, to amend the law of evidence and case law addressing the law of evidence. It indicates the value of sources which extend beyond the customary definition of 'legal literature' to the study of colonial Australian legal history. Charles De Boos's works alluding to R. v. Wilkes indicate his knowledge of utilitarian and legislative arguments about reform of the law of evidence. De Boos's writings, both his fictionalized account of the Wilkes case in the novel Fifty Years Ago and his true-crime serial Pursued by Fate, complement more conventional sources for the study of the legal history of colonial NSW.

This introduction provides an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book traces the period of wartime French imperial division, setting it within the wider international politics of the Second World War. Neither the Vichy nor the Free French imperial authorities were masters of their own destiny. A truism perhaps, under Marshal Philippe Petain, the Vichy regime established in July 1940 governed only part of a defeated country under the gaze of the fascist powers. Control of the French empire was vital to the competing French leaderships of 1940-1944. The empire was a physical embodiment of what limited independence remained to the Vichy regime. The book evaluates the stability, the value and the strength of the empire, by considering the nature of Vichy and Free French colonial rule and the impact of that authority upon the local populations.

This chapter attempts to locate the role of law within debates on the imperialist nature of world political economy after international law, through the UN Charter, formally ended colonialism at the end of the Second World War. It examines legal and institutional structures created by British colonization in relation to water, a key resource in social production, and the contradictions it created in society both for the colonial Government and the population in the Krishna River Basin. The chapter explains relationship between the dilemmas of the British colonial Government and later the World Bank and the federal Government in the post-Independence period. It considers the sources of different types of conflict in relation to water, and argues that the processes which keep the issue of water locked into these conflicts are equally important.

This chapter focuses on women's history and feminist law. Daiva Stasiulis and Nira Yuval-Davis pointed out how 'few analyses of settler societies have examined how settler capitalism exacerbated and transformed relations based simultaneously on colonialism, capitalism, gender, class and race/ethnicity'. Issues of 'race' and gender have been approached in a variety of ways by historians in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Nevertheless, despite the growth in thematic, cross-national and comparative history, the desire for a national history has continued to flourish, in both popular demand and professional historical practice. Where Aotearoa/New Zealand historians have been extremely wary of writing national histories at all, Australian historians have tried to write national histories which embody full attention to both race and gender. The word 'racism' appears to have been coined first in the 1930s, as the scientific construction of racial categories came under intellectual critique.