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Sarah Maddison and Morgan Brigg (eds), Unsettling the Settler State: Creativity and Resistance in Indigenous Settler-State Governance (Federation Press, 2011). Debates in contemporary Indigenous affairs rarely question the settler-state framework and its accompanying institutions and processes. This silence persists despite Indigenous efforts to engage the settler-colonial order through repeated calls for treaties, for constitutional change, […]
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miranda johnson on reconciliation, indigeneity and postcolonial nationhood in settler states
Miranda Johnson, ‘Reconciliation, indigeneity, and postcolonial nationhood in settler states’, Postcolonial Studies 14, 2 (2011). In the Commonwealth settler states of Australia, New Zealand and Canada in the last two decades, ‘reconciliation’ has become a key term for expressing a new relationship between indigenous and non-indigenous (primarily white settler) peoples. The term is usually associated […]
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Sherene H. Razack, ‘Timely Deaths: Medicalizing the Deaths of Aboriginal People in Police Custody’, Law, Culture and the Humanities 7, 2 (2011) This article is part of a larger study of inquests into the deaths of Aboriginal people in custody. I suggest that the Aboriginal body is considered to be one that is already dead, […]
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Awad Issa Mansour, ‘Orientalism, Total War and the Production of Settler Colonial Existence: The United States, Australia, Apartheid South Africa and the Zionist’ (PHD Dissertation, University of Exeter, 2011). Picking up on current research about settler colonialism, this study uses a modified version of a model explaining modern-state formation to explain settler-colonial formation. Charles Tilly […]
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Making Settler Colonial Space: Perspectives on Race, Place and Identity (Palgrave UK, 2010) Edited by Tracey Banivanua Mar and Penelope Edmonds. To be launched by Patrick Wolfe. The new journal, settler colonial studies, introduced by Jane Carey and Lorenzo Veracini. When: Thursday 30th June, 5.00pm for a 5.30pm start Where: Gertrudes Brown Couch, 30 Gertrude […]
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Edward Cavanagh, ‘”Not Celebrated for its Agriculture”: Emigrant Guides and Land Settlement in New South Wales, 1831-65’, Australian Studies 3 (2011) This article examines the processes of British settlement in New South Wales through the lens of emigrant guides that were produced to attract newcomers to the expanding colony. The author identifies two main types […]
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Mark Finnane, ‘Settler Justice and Aboriginal Homicide in Late Colonial Australia’, Australian Historical Studies 42, 2 (2011). This article examines the hidden history of criminal justice in late colonial Australia by focussing on Aboriginal inter se offending. Most Aboriginal defendants appearing in late colonial criminal courts were prosecuted for violent crimes against other Aboriginal people. […]
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Libby Connors,’Witness to Frontier Violence: An Aboriginal Boy before the Supreme Court’, Australian Historical Studies 42, 2 (2011). In October 1846 a ten-year-old Aboriginal boy witnessed a large scale Aboriginal attack on a station north of Brisbane. Although he survived the attack, the boy had the terrifying experience of observing the brutal killings of his […]
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Jay Hammond, ‘Speaking Of Opium: Discursive Formations in Empire’. M.A. Thesis Dissertation (Columbia University Department of Anthropology, May 2011). This thesis traces the social life of opium starting from the history of British colonialism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries on to settler colonialism in the United States (with frequent comparisons to Australia) at the […]
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