Indigenous Rights and Colonial Subjecthood: Protection and Reform in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire

ISBN-13: 9781108471756 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 240 str.

Amanda Nettelbeck

Opis

An exploration of how policies protecting indigenous people's rights were entwined with reforming them as governable subjects, including through punishment under the law.

Recenzje

'... Nettelbeck's book makes a number of vital contributions for understanding and, hopefully, addressing these persistent struggles around settler colonialism and its legacies in our present moment.' Ryan D. Fong, Victorian Studies

Spis treści

1. Protection and the ends of colonial governance; 2. Creating Aboriginal subjects of the Crown; 3. Distinctive designs: local arenas of protection; 4. Protector magistrates: mediating labour and law; 5. Intimate encounters with protection; 6. Recasting protection from rights to surveillance; Conclusion: protection and reform in the British Empire.