« On white possession and the bordered state as sites of settler colonial practice: Fiona Nicoll, ‘Interrupting White Possession and Unsettling State Borders: Expanding Frontiers of Critical Indigenous Studies’, International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, 8, 1, 2015, pp. 47-59
On the poverty of settler colonialism: Julius, Wilm, ‘Poor, white, and useful: settlers in their petitions to US Congress, 1817–1841’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2016 »

Indigenous hunger as settler colonial violence: Anne O’Brien, ‘Hunger and the humanitarian frontier’, Aboriginal History, 39, 2015, pp. 109-134

10Jan16

Abstract: Within a few days of settlers’ arrival in Eora country in 1788, disruptions to the ecological balance between population and food supply were set in train. The first conflicts were over fish and the officers soon observed that the local people were ‘very hungry’. Over the next century and a half as settlement spread across the continent, so too did these disruptions. Their rate and extent was not everywhere the same. Different economic modes and different demographics varied their impacts, and bush food continued to be important. Indeed, recent research shows that in some contexts settlers embraced and depended on Indigenous foodways. But while such insights are important in variegating the larger story, disruption to food supplies was one of colonialism’s irrefutable consequences.


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