Aboriginal Protection and Its Intermediaries in Britains Antipodean Colonies
This collection brings together world-leading and emerging scholars to explore how the concept of protection was applied to Indigenous peoples of Britains antipodean colonies. Tracing evolutions in protection from the 1830s until the end of the nineteenth century, the contributors map the changes and continuities that marked it as an inherently ambivalent mode of colonial practice. In doing so, they consider the place of different historical actors who were involved in the implementation of protective policy, who served as its intermediaries on the ground, or who responded as its intended beneficiaries. These included metropolitan and colonial administrators, Protectors or similar agents, government interpreters and church-affiliated missionaries, settlers with economic investments in the politics of conciliation, and the Indigenous peoples who were themselves subjected to colonial policies. Drawing out some of the interventions and encounters lived out in the name of protection, the book examines some of the critical roles it played in the making of colonial relations.
Samuel Furphy is Research Fellow in the National Centre of Biography, School of History, at the Australian National University.
Amanda Nettelbeck is Professor in History at the University of Adelaide and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
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Names: Furphy, Samuel, editor. | Nettelbeck, Amanda, editor.
Title: Aboriginal protection and its intermediaries in Britains
Antipodean colonies / edited by Samuel Furphy and Amanda
Nettelbeck.
Description: New York : Routledge, 2020. | Series: Routledge
studies in cultural history ; 74 | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019013755 (print) | LCCN 2019018491
(ebook) | ISBN 9780429316364 () | ISBN 9780367313418
(hbk) | ISBN 9780429316364 (ebk)
Subjects: LCSH: Aboriginal AustraliansGovernment
relationsHistory19th century. | Aboriginal Australians
Social conditions19th century. | AustraliaPolitics and
government19th century. | Great BritainColoniesRace
relations. | OceaniaColonization. | Great BritainColonies
OceaniaHistory19th century.
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Contents
PART I
The Conception and Circulation of Aboriginal Protection
SAMUEL FURPHY AND AMANDA NETTELBECK
RICHARD PRICE
PENELOPE EDMONDS AND ZO LAIDLAW
SAMUEL FURPHY
AMANDA NETTELBECK
PART II
Interpreting Protection on the Ground: Actors and Practices
SHAUNNAGH DORSETT
MARJAN LOUSBERG
ANN HUNTER
SKYE KRICHAUFF
PART III
Refashioning Protection
TIM ROWSE
JOANNA CRUICKSHANK AND MARK McMILLAN
MALCOLM ALLBROOK
MARIA NUGENT
Guide
This collection of essays arises from a workshop convened at the Australian National University in April 2017 and hosted by the National Centre of Biography, School of History. The workshop was made possible by financial support from the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences. We would like to thank all those who participated in the workshop, and also those who did not attend but later contributed essays to this book. We appreciate the constructive suggestions of the anonymous reviewers of the book proposal and manuscript, and especially Tim Rowse for giving assistance in moderating the entire volume and providing helpful comments on all the chapters. Finally, we extend our thanks to Max Novick and Jennifer Morrow at Routledge.
Samuel Furphy and Amanda Nettelbeck
February 2019
Part I
The Conception and Circulation of Aboriginal Protection
1
Imagining Protection in the Antipodean Colonies
Samuel Furphy and Amanda Nettelbeck
Histories of Aboriginal Protection in the Antipodean Colonies
Recent years have seen a revival of historical interest in Aboriginal protection as a concept that gained critical momentum in British imperial politics after the abolition of slavery. A body of new work has explored the different ways that ideas of humane governance shaped indigenous policy around the British settler colonial world, and in how they became re-imagined over time. In particular, Alan Lester and Fae Dussarts book Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance: Protecting Aborigines in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire (2014) has been influential in generating closer attention to the origins and translations of Aboriginal protection across different British colonial jurisdictions. Initially, however, the institutional face of Aboriginal protection only had specific regional application to the antipodean colonies, where the Colonial Office authorised the appointment of Protectors of Aborigines from the late 1830s.
