Governing Natives - Indirect Rule and Settler Colonialism in Australias North Silverstein Ben Postdoctoral Research Fellow School of History Australian National UniversityPevná vazba
Governing Natives - Indirect Rule and Settler Colonialism in Australias North Silverstein Ben Postdoctoral Research Fellow School of History Australian National UniversityPevná vazba In the 1930s, a…
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Governing Natives - Indirect Rule and Settler Colonialism in Australias North Silverstein Ben Postdoctoral Research Fellow School of History Australian National UniversityPevná vazba
In the 1930s, a series of crises transformed relationships between settlers and Aboriginal people in Australia's Northern Territory. 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. By the late 1930s, Australian settlers were coming to understand the Northern Territory as a colonial formation requiring a new form of government.
This book locates Aboriginal history within imperial history, situating the settler colonial politics of Indigeneity in a broader governmental