Rethinking Settler Colonialism History and Memory in Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand and South Africa

by Coombes, Annie E.

• ISBN13: 9780719071690
• ISBN10: 0719071690
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-05-01
• Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR
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Summary

Rethinking Settler Colonialismfocuses on the long history of contact between indigenous peoples and the white colonial communities who settled in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada and South Africa. In each of these countries these communities were displaced, marginalised and sometimes subjected to attempted genocide through the colonial process. Recently these groups have renewed their claims for greater political representation and autonomy. The essays and artwork in this book insist that an understanding of the political and cultural institutions and practices which shaped settler-colonial societies in the past can provide important insights into how this legacy of unequal rights can be contested in the present. It will be of interest to those studying the effects of colonial powers on indigenous populations, and the legacies of imperial rule in postcolonial societies.

Author Biography

Annie E. Coombes is Professor of Material and Visual Culture at Birkbeck College, London.

Table of Contents

List of figures * Notes on contributors * Acknowledgements * Introduction: Memory and history in settler colonialism --Annie E. Coombes * Artists pages: Lisa Reihana, Berni Searle and Brook Andrew * Part I: Colonial culture: institutions and practices * Active Remembrance: Testimony, memoir and the work of reconciliation --Gillian Whitlock * Solly Sachs, the Great Trek and Jan van Riebeeck: Settler pasts and racial identities in the Garment Workers Union, 1938–52 --Leslie Witz
 * From prisoners to exhibits: representations of 'Bushmen' of the Northern Cape, 1880–1900 --Martin Legassick * Part II: The ordering of culture: new nations for old * Taonga, Marae,Whenua - Negotiating custodianship: a Maori tribal response to Te Papa: Museum of New Zealand --Paul Tapsell *  Auckland’s centrepiece: unsettled identities, unstable monuments --Leonard Bell
 * Show times: de-celebrating the Canadian nation, decolonising the Canadian Museum. 1967–92 --Ruth B. Phillips * The uses of Captain Cook: early exploration in the public history of Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia --Nicholas Thomas * Selective memory: the British Empire Exhibition and national histories of art --Christine Boyanoski * Part III: Engagement and resistance * Challenging the myth of indigenous peoples’  ‘last stand’ in Canada and Australia: public discourse and the conditions of silence --Elizabeth Furniss * Being Indian the South African way: the development of Indian identity in 1940s Durban --Parvathi Raman * An education in White brutality: Anthony Martin Fernando and Australian Aboriginal rights in global context --Fiona Paisley * Part IV: New subjectivities and the politics of reconciliation * New World poetics of place: along the Oregon Trail and in the National Museum of Australia --Deborah Bird Rose * Subjectivities of Whiteness --Sarah Nuttall * Select bibliography * Index