Governing Natives: Indirect Rule and Settler Colonialism in Australia's North

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Ben Silverstein (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of History, Australian National University)

Governing Natives

Indirect Rule and Settler Colonialism in Australia's North

Ben Silverstein (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of History, Australian National University)

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English

Manchester Univ. Press
16 October 2018

History; Australasian & Pacific history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Colonialism & imperialism

Series: Studies in Imperialism

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. -- .

By: Ben Silverstein (Postdoctoral Research Fellow School of History Australian National University)
Imprint: Manchester Univ. Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 531g
ISBN: 9781784995263
ISBN 10: 1784995266
Series: Studies in Imperialism
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 16 October 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Note on terms 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 Bibliography Index -- .

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

Reviews for Governing Natives: Indirect Rule and Settler Colonialism in Australia's North

'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 -- .