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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. ISBNs for Governing natives are 9781526100047, 1526100045 and the print ISBNs are 9781784995263, 1784995266. Additional ISBNs include 9781526100054.
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- Author: Ben Silverstein
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
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