Making Settler Colonial Space Perspectives on Race, Place and Identity

by Banivanua-Mar, Tracey; Edmonds, Penelope

• ISBN13: 9780230221796
• ISBN10: 0230221793
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-06-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

TRACEY BANIVANUA MAR  is an historian of Indigenous and colonial histories, particularly of the western Pacific and Australia, and she teaches at La Trobe University. She has published articles and edited collections and her recent book Violence and Colonial Dialogue (University of Hawaii Press, 2007) was shortlisted for two New South Wales Premiers prizes for History in 2008.

PENELOPE EDMONDS  is an historian of colonial and postcolonial history, with a special interest in Australian and Pacific-region contact and transnational histories. Penny is the author of Urbanizing Frontiers: Indigenous Peoples and Settlers in 19th Century Pacific Rim Cities (University of British Columbia Press, 2009).

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Table	p. vii
Notes on Contributors	p. viii
Introduction: Making Space in Settler Colonies	p. 1
'Guys Like Gauguin'	p. 25
Appropriating Emptiness
Appropriating Space: Antarctic Imperialism and the Mentality of Settler Colonialism	p. 29
'Never Mind Our Country is the Desert'	p. 53
Carving Wilderness: Queensland's National Parks and the Unsettling of Emptied Lands, 1890-1910	p. 73
'The Clay Maiden'	p. 95
Frontiers in Cadastral and Urbanising Spaces
'Don't Read Under a Coconut Tree'	p. 101
Nervous Landscapes: Race and Space in Australia	p. 103
The Intimate, Urbanising Frontier: Native Camps and Settler Colonialism's Violent Array of Spaces around Early Melbourne	p. 129
Race, Greed and Something More: the Erasure of Urban Indigenous Space in Early Twentieth-Century British Columbia	p. 155
Making and Unmaking Places
'Has the Whole Tribe Come Out from England?'	p. 177
The Imagined Geographies of Settler Colonialism	p. 179
The Politics of 'Periodical Counting': Race, Place and Identity in Southern New Zealand	p. 198
'Fantastic Dreaming': Ebenezer Mission as Moravian Utopia and Wotjobaluk Responses	p. 218
Thirdspace and Middle Grounds
'Acoustic Shadows'	p. 241
Patyegarang and William Dawes: the Space of Imagination	p. 242
Indigenous Music as a Space of Resistance	p. 255
Indigeneity's Challenges to the Settler State: Decentring the 'Imperial Binary'	p. 273
'Whakatangi'	p. 295
Index	p. 297
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