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Settler colonialism and (re)conciliation : frontier violence, affective performances, and imaginative refoundings
This book examines the performative life reconciliation and its discontents in settler societies. It explores the refoundings of the settler state and reimaginings of its alternatives, as well as the way the past is mobilized and reworked in the name of social transformation within a new global paradigm of reconciliation and the 'age of apology'.
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Settler colonialism and (re)conciliation : frontier violence, affective performances, and imaginative refoundings
\"This book explores reconciliation's performative life and its discontents in settler societies. It explores the affective refoundings of the settler state and the radical reimagining of its alternatives by Indigenous peoples and allied others, and, in particular the way the past is creatively mobilized, reworked and enlisted in the name of social transformation within a new global paradigm of reconciliation and the 'age of apology' ... taking selected case studies across the postcolonial settler societies of the United States of America, Australia, and Aotearoa New Zealand\"--Introduction.
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Making settler colonial space : perspectives on race, place and identity
Charts the making of colonial spaces in settler colonies of the Pacific Rim during the last two centuries. Contributions journey through time, place and region, and piece together interwoven but discrete studies that illuminate transnational and local experiences - violent, ideological, and cultural - that produced settler-colonial space.
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Elite and 'Shadow Networks': Quaker investigative counter travel, protective governance, and Indigenous worlds in the Southern oceans
This paper traces the investigative tours of British Quakers in the Southern oceans \"travelling under concern\" in the 1830s, who sought to witness the treatment of those violently mobilised and dislocated in empire's service. The paper argues that these tours, as both religious journeys and cross-cultural enquiries, highlight the contingent and enmeshed ways that travel, mobility and the violence of empire and could give rise to new networks and social relations and constituted a form of imperial counter travel or counter networking. Crucially, the paper explores the interconnectedness of elite and subaltern networks, revealing the entanglements of humanitarian travel with Indigenous \"shadow networks,\" which left their traces in modes of imperial governance, as well as circuits of textuality, language and collecting.
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Unpacking Settler Colonialism’s Urban Strategies: Indigenous Peoples in Victoria, British Columbia, and the Transition to a Settler-Colonial City
This article uses settler colonialism as a specific analytic frame through which to understand the historical forces in the formation of settler cities as urbanizing polities. Arguing that we must pay attention to the intertwined histories of immigration and colonization, the author traces the symbolic and economic functions and origins of the settler-colonial city to reveal its political imperatives, the expropriation of Indigenous land, and the dispossession, removal, sequestration, and transformation of Indigenous peoples. Taking as a case study the city of Victoria, BC, and its Lekwungen people throughout the nineteenth century, the author charts the shift from a mixed and fluid mercantilist society to an increasingly racialized and segregated settler-colonial polity. This transition reveals how bodies and urbanizing spaces are reordered and remade, and how Indigenous peoples come to be produced and marked by political categories borne of the racialized practices of an urbanizing settler colonialism, which complement the powerful forces of settler ethnogenesis and colonial modernity.
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Empire, Humanitarianism and Violence in the Colonies
[...]as Sean Scalmer's essay in this collection shows, such discourses could be effectively harnessed to anticolonial struggle, despite the implicit limits and disjuctures of an imperial humanitarian discourse of nonviolence.5 For well over three decades, a growing body of scholarship on the Australian and New Zealand colonies and humanitarianism in general has studied the varied forms of humanitarian history and their multivalent entanglements with violence in colonised regions.6 Work on humanitarianism and missionaries across settler colonies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is particularly notable.7 Nevertheless, \"humanitarianism\" as an area of scholarly engagement has often tended to gloss over historical, political and spiritual specificities. [...]recently, the particular entanglements of humanitarianism and colonial governance and the question of violence and nonviolence have been overlooked. The theological connotations of humanitarianism are associated with ideas of redemption, reaching out, and the language of sentiment and affect.10 There is a general consensus that what Charles Taylor calls a \"moral imperative to reduce suffering\" emerged from Enlightenment thought and Christian (and especially Protestant) roots.\\n It is often presumed that humanitarian agitation, focussed on the issue of the lash and expressed in the evidence given to the Molesworth Committee on Transportation (1837) assisted in making a decisive turning point in Britain's deployment of convict labour to sites such as Van Diemen's Land.
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“The Whip Is a Very Contagious Kind of Thing”: Flogging and humanitarian reform in penal Australia
This paper traces humanitarian debates over corporal punishment and the use of the lash in the Australian colonies in the nineteenth century, with particular attention to Quakers James Backhouse and George Washington Walker’s interventions in penal discipline in colonial Van Diemen’s Land. It examine the ways that corporal punishment of convicts and Aboriginal peoples was framed through abolitionist eyes and explores in detail specific objections to the lash, including ideas around suffering, abstract vengeance and pain. The paper considers the move to other punishment strategies such as silent and solitary confinement, promoted in place of the lash. As we show, the evidence provided by the travelling investigative Quakers did much to inform the 1837 Select Committee on Transportation chaired by William Molesworth. The same report is also credited with reducing the rate of flogging in the penal colonies. However, while the Molesworth Committee is regarded as a decisive turning point in the history of Britain’s deployment of convict labour, we argue that a shift in punishment strategies was already well underway before the late 1830s. Using new data on punishments awarded, we demonstrate that in Van Diemen’s Land the demise of the lash had begun well before the Molesworth Committee met. We conclude by arguing that the association between the great humanitarian moment and the demise of flagellation so often associated Molesworth, was more complex and less direct than is often supposed.
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