Rethinking settler colonialism (eBook, PDF)

History and memory in Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand and South Africa
Redaktion: Coombes, Annie

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Produktbeschreibung

Rethinking settler colonialism focuses 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. It interrogates how histories of colonial settlement have been mythologised, narrated and embodied in public culture in the twentieth century (through monuments, exhibitions and images) and charts some of the vociferous challenges to such histories that have emerged over recent years.

Despite a shared familiarity with cultural and political institutions, practices and policies amongst the white settler communities, the distinctiveness which marked these constituencies as variously, 'Australian', 'South African', 'Canadian' or 'New Zealander', was fundamentally contingent upon their relationship to and with the various indigenous communities they encountered. 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526121547
• Artikelnr.: 60363393

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Memory
and History in Settler Colonialism - Annie E. Coombes SECTION ONE: Colonial
Culture: Institutions and Practices 1. Active Remembrance: Testimony,
memoir and the work of reconciliation - Gillian Whitlock 2. Solly Sachs,
the Great Trek and Jan van Riebeeck: Settler Pasts and Racial Identities in
the Garment Workers Union, 1938 - 1952 - Leslie Witz 3. From Prisoners to
Exhibits: Representations of 'Bushmen' of the Northern Cape, 1880-1900 -
Martin Legassick SECTION TWO: The Ordering of Culture : New Nations for
Old. 4. Taonga, Marae,Whenua - Negotiating Custodianship: A Maori tribal
response to Te Papa: Museum of New Zealand - Paul Tapsell 5. Auckland's
Centrepiece: Unsettled Identities, Unstable Monuments - Leonard Bell 6.
Show Times: De-Celebrating the Canadian Nation, Decolonising the Canadian
Museum. 1967-1992 - Ruth B. Phillips 7. The Uses of Captain Cook: Early
exploration in the public history of Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia -
Nicholas Thomas 8. Selective Memory: The British Empire Exhibition and
National Histories of Art - Christine Boyanoski SECTION THREE: Engagement
and Resistance 9. Challenging the Myth of Indigenous Peoples' 'Last Stand'
in Canada and Australia: Public discourse and the conditions of silence -
Elizabeth Furniss 10. Being Indian the South African Way: The Development
of Indian Identity in 1940s Durban - Parvathi Raman 11. "An Education in
White Brutality: Anthony Martin Fernando and Australian Aboriginal rights
in global context - Fiona Paisley SECTION FOUR: New Subjectivities and the
Politics of Reconciliation. 12. New World Poetics of Place: Along the
Oregon Trail and and in the National Museum of Australia - Deborah Bird
Rose 13. Subjectivities of Whiteness - Sarah Nuttall 14. Facing History:
Artists' Pages : Brook Andrew, 'Ignoratia'; Lisa Reihana, 'Native Portraits
n.19897, Berni Searle, 'Profile' Selected bibliography