Genocide or ‘logic of elimination? Thomas Crotty, ‘Beyond Genocide: a comparative analysis of the elimination of Australia’s Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander people’, NEW: Emerging scholars in Australian Indigenous Studies, 2-3, 1, 2016-17 | settler colonial studies blog

Genocide or ‘logic of elimination? Thomas Crotty, ‘Beyond Genocide: a comparative analysis of the elimination of Australia’s Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander people’, NEW: Emerging scholars in Australian Indigenous Studies, 2-3, 1, 2016-17

10Feb18

Abstract: This paper explores the applicability of the term genocide to Australian colonisation, and considers whether the scholar Patrick Wolfe’s concept of settler colonialism’s inherent “logic of elimination” provides a more useful framework for considering Australian history.

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