Governing natives

Indirect rule and settler colonialism in Australia's north

von Ben Silverstein

228 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In the 1930s, a series of crises transformed relationships between settlers and Aboriginal people in Australia's Northern Territory. By the late 1930s, Australian settlers were coming to understand the Northern Territory as a colonial formation requiring a new form of government. Responding to crises of social reproduction, public power, and legitimacy, they re-thought the scope of settler colonial government by drawing on both the art of indirect rule and on a representational economy of Indigenous elimination to develop a new political dispensation that sought to incorporate and consume Indigenous production and sovereignties. This book locates Aboriginal history within imperial history, situating the settler colonial politics of Indigeneity in a broader governmental context.

• Reihe: Studies in Imperialism
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte
• ISBN: 9781784995263
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 02.11.2018
• Größe: 240 x 161 mm
• Verlag: Manchester University Press