Yu-ting Huang - Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Space and Race

Archiving Settler Colonialism

Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Raceand Space brings together 15 essays from across the globe, to capture a moment in settler colonial studies that turns increasingly towards new cultural archives for settler colonial research. Essays on hitherto under-examined materialsincluding postage stamps, musical scores, urban parks, and psychiatric recordsreflect on how cultural texts archive moments of settler self-fashioning. Archiving Settler Colonialism also expands settler colonial studies reach as an international academic discipline, bringing together scholarly research about the British breakaway settler colonies with underanalyzed non-white, non-Anglophone settler societies. The essays together illustrate settler colonial cultures asfor all their similaritiesultimately divergent constructions, locally situated and produced of specific power relations within the messy operations of imperial domination.

Yu-ting Huang is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University, USA.

Rebecca Weaver-Hightower is Professor of English at North Dakota State University, USA.

Empires and the Making of the Modern World, 16502000

Series Editors: Philippa Levine, University of Texas at Austin and John Marriott, University of Hull

This monograph series seeks to explore the complexities of the relationships among empires, modernity and global history. In so doing, it wishes to challenge the orthodoxy that the experience of modernity was located exclusively in the west, and that the non-western world was brought into the modern age through conquest, mimicry and association. To the contrary, modernity had its origins in the interaction between the two worlds.

Archiving Settler Colonialism

Culture, Space and Race

Edited by Yu-ting Huang and Rebecca Weaver-Hightower

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Visual Culture and American Empire in the Twentieth Century

By Prue Ahrens, Lamont Lindstrom, Fiona Paisley

Empire De/Centered

New Spatial Histories of Russia and the Soviet Union

Edited by Maxim Waldstein, Sanna Turoma

Enlightened Reform in Southern Europe and its Atlantic Colonies, c. 17501830

Edited by Gabriel Paquette

Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern World

Edited by Liam Matthew Brockey

Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt

By Hibba Abugideiri

Rethinking African Politics

A History of Opposition in Zambia

By Miles Larmer

Art in the Time of Colony

By Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll

Archiving Settler Colonialism

Culture, Space and Race

Edited by Yu-ting Huang and Rebecca Weaver-Hightower

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Contents

Yu-ting Huang and Rebecca Weaver-Hightower

Avril Bell

Helen Bones

Yichi Zhang

Adam Nemmers

Frederik Schulze

Jeffrey A. Mullins

Claudia Jansen van Rensburg

Lize van Robbroeck and Damian Skinner

Josiah Brownell

Meg Foster

Elizabeth W. Williams

Kathryn McKay

Martin Kalb

Yu-ting Huang

Kara Hisatake

Lorenzo Veracini

Avril Bell is an associate professor in sociology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her research is focused particularly on Aotearoa New Zealand and centers on issues of settler colonialism, Indigenoussettler relations and possibilities for decolonization. She is the author of Relating Indigenous and Settler Identities: Beyond Domination (2014) and many journal articles and book chapters on these topics.

Helen Bones is a graduate of the University of Canterbury (New Zealand) and a research associate in digital humanities at Western Sydney University. Her interests include transnational publishing and writing networks, colonial literatures and digital methods. Her book, The Expatriate Myth: New Zealand Writers and the Colonial World (2018), has just been published.

Josiah Brownell is an associate professor of history at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. His primary areas of research are comparative settler colonialism, with a focus on central and southern Africa, and the international law and politics of African decolonization. Brownell received his Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London in 2009, and he has a law degree from University of Virginia. His first book was published in 2011, titled: The Collapse of Rhodesia: Population Demographics and the Politics of Race. He is currently working on his second book which compares and contrasts the right-wing secessionist regimes of Katanga, Rhodesia and Transkei and their failed efforts to win international recognition.

Meg Foster is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of New South Wales. Under the supervision of Grace Karskens and Lisa Ford, Foster is investigating the other bushrangers (Australian outlaws who were not white men) in history and memory. After completing her honors thesis on Indigenous bushrangers in 2013, Foster worked as a researcher with the Australian Centre of Public History at the University of Technology, Sydney. She is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, and was the inaugural winner of the Deen De Bortoli Award in Applied History for her article, Online and Plugged In? Public History and Historians in the Digital Age featured in the Public History Review (2014). As well as her Ph.D., Foster works as a historical consultant and has a particular interest in making connections between history and the contemporary world.

Kara Hisatake was born and raised on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in literature at University of California, Santa Cruz, with designated emphases in critical race and ethnic studies and visual studies. Her dissertation focuses on the literatures of Hawaii, including comedy and performance, and examines empire and settler colonialism in Hawaii through Pidgin (Hawaii Creole English) texts. Her research interests include Asian American studies, Pacific studies, queer theory and gender studies, and theories and histories of militarism and tourism.