Governing natives: Indirect rule and settler colonialism in Australia's north

by Ben Silverstein, Andrew Thompson (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781526100047
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	10/16/2018
Series:	Studies in Imperialism
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	533 KB

About the Author

Ben Silverstein is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of History at The Australian National University

Table of Contents

1 Strehlow's problem: colonial transformations and a governmental event

2 The political organisation of the British in their Empire, 1875-1939: transforming indirect rule

3 Reporting on the northern contradiction: conflict and crisis, 1918-45

4 Thomson in Canberra: anthropologising Aborigines

5 Native administration in the northern territory: a white minority in the national community

6 From a white Australia to an Aboriginal New Deal

7 The long march: work and the ends of settler colonialism

8 Never yet: the tense of citizenship

Index

Editorial Reviews

'A short review cannot do justice to this innovative, original, and carefully researched study. Silverstein has clearly situated Australian settler colonialism and its practices towards Indigenous people within a wider imperial context.'
Australian Historical Studies

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