Archive for the ‘Australia’ Category
Damien Short, ‘Australia: a continuing genocide?’, Journal of Genocide Research 12, 1 (2010) Abstract: Debates about genocide in Australia have for the most part focussed on past frontier killings and child removal practices. This article, however, focuses on contemporary culturally destructive policies, and the colonial structures that produce them, through the analytical lens of the […]
Filed under: Australia, Genocide, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Carolyn B. Ramsey, ‘Domestic Violence and State Intervention in the American West and Australia, 1860-1930’, Indiana Law Journal 86 (2011) Abstract: This article calls into question stereotypical assumptions about the presumed lack of state intervention in the family and the patriarchal violence of Anglo-American frontier societies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By […]
Filed under: Australia, law, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
In the history of Aboriginal Australia, there is nothing all that new about a convoy of uninvited guests trekking across country to seek a new start. Aboriginal groups have been known to flout jurisdictional boundaries – whether those erected by other Aboriginal groups across tens of thousands of years, or those more arbitrarily decided by […]
Filed under: Australia, media, Political developments | Closed
Stephen Allen and Alexandra Xanthaki (ed.), Reflections on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2010) The adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the United Nations General Assembly on 13 September 2007 was acclaimed as a major success for the United Nations system given the […]
Filed under: Africa, Australia, Canada, Hawaii, Latin America, law, New Zealand, Pacific, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
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Construction firm Grocon has unveiled plans for a new Melbourne apartment block featuring a giant 32-storey portrait of Wurundjeri leader William Barak. via ABC News
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Julie Evans, ‘Where Lawlessness Is Law: The Settler-Colonial Frontier As a Legal Space of Violence ‘, Australian Feminist Law Journal 30 (2009), 3-22. Part of the introduction: In understanding international law as a key legitimating discourse of colonialism, this paper argues the need to view settler-colonial frontiers within a conceptual field that directs as much […]
Filed under: Australia, law, Scholarship and insights, Sovereignty | Closed
Amanda Nettelbeck and Russell Smandych, ‘Policing Indigenous Peoples on Two Colonial Frontiers: Australia’s Mounted Police and Canada’s North-West Mounted Police’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 43, 2 (August 2010), pp. 356-375. Abstract This article examines the ways in which colonial policing and punishment of Indigenous peoples evolved as an inherent part of the […]
Filed under: Australia, Canada, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Mark Finnane, Jonathan Richards ‘Aboriginal Violence and State Response: Histories, Policies and Legacies in Queensland 1860–1940’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 43, 2 (August 2010), pp. 238-262 Abstract During the long era of ‘protection’ (enacted in 1897, flourishing in the interwar years and with effects continuing to this day) policy towards Australian Indigenous […]
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Bronwen Douglas, ‘Terra Australis to Oceania: Racial Geography in the “Fifth Part of the World”‘, Journal of Pacific History 45, 2 (2010): Abstract This paper is a synoptic history of racial geography in the ‘fifth part of the world’ or Oceania — an extended region embracing what are now Australia, Island Southeast Asia, the Pacific […]
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