Governing Natives: Indirect Rule and Settler Colonialism in Australia's North (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781784995263)

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.

Author: Ben Silverstein
ISBN-10: 1784995266
ISBN-13: 9781784995263
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/16/2018
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d