From the 1860s, the colonial settlement of Beltana in the northern deserts of South Australia emerged as a transportation hub atop an existing, cosmopolitan center of Aboriginal trade. Viewing a colonial settlement on Kuyani land through a mobilities paradigm, this article examines intersecting settler and Aboriginal trajectories of movement through Beltana, illuminating their complex entanglements. Challenging the imperial myth of emptiness that shaped how Europeans saw the lands they invaded, this article renders visible the multiple imaginative geographies that existed at every colonial settlement. Examining mobility along Kuyani and Wangkangurru tracks alongside British mobilities, this article makes a methodological argument for writing multiaxial histories of settler colonialism.
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Beyond Blank Spaces
Five Tracks to Late Nineteenth-Century Beltana
Samia Khatun
Constructing Aboriginal Australians, 1930-1960
Projecting False Memories
Keith Crawford
This article offers a critical exploration of social studies textbooks and allied curriculum materials used in New South Wales primary schools between 1930 and 1960, and of the way in which these texts positioned, discussed, and assessed Aboriginal Australians. With reference to European commitments to Enlightenment philosophies and social Darwinian views of race and culture, the author argues that Aboriginal peoples were essentialized via a discourse of paternalism and cultural and biological inferiority. Thus othered in narratives of Australian identity and national progress, Aboriginal Australians were ascribed a role as marginalized spectators or as a primitive and disappearing anachronism.
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2013
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 90–107 (18 total)
Freeing the ‘Aboriginal Individual’
Deconstructing ‘Development as Freedom’ in Remote Indigenous Australia
Hannah Bulloch and William Fogarty
generally and the Indigenous Australian experience specifically (see Altman and Fogarty 2010 ; Fogarty 2013 ; Fogarty and Ryan 2007 ; Fogarty and Schwab 2012 ). He has spent over 15 years living and working with remote Aboriginal communities in the North
A Dialogue on the Effects of Aboriginal Rights Litigation and Activism on Aboriginal Communities in Northwestern British Columbia
Richard Daly and Val Napoleon
Both community activism and anthropological research affect local communities materially, whether this research is conducted by ‘ac- tivists’ or ‘objectivists’. It is ethically and methodologically important that these activisms be recognized and built into the subject of the research. Aboriginal rights litigation entails both explicit and implicit activism by all concerned, although few admit as much. In this light, some of the effects of such activism on a local community engaged in aboriginal rights litigation in Canada are discussed in the form of a dia- logue between an anthropologist and a community activist who is now working in aboriginal law.
In Social Analysis
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2003
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 108–129 (22 total)
"The aboriginal people of England"
The culture of class politics in contemporary Britain
Gillian Evans
This article explores the legal precedent of the case of Mandla versus Dowell-Lee (Mandla v Dowell-Lee 1983) to explain how the far right British National Party mobilizes ethnic strategies and specifically the category of “indigenous Britons,“ to turn post-colonial multiculturalism on its head and thereby disavow the realities of a post-industrial, multiracial working class in Britain. The article argues that the historical moment in contemporary Britain is characterized by a shift away from the politics of social class toward collective organization and sentiment based on ethnicity and cultural nationalism. Drawing on ethnographic and historical research, conducted between 1998 and 2000 on the post-industrial Docklands of Southeast London, the article explains an exceptional local area case study, which proves the rule about the growth in influence in the first decade of the twenty-first century of far-right politics in post-industrial urban areas of Britain.
Obligations to Objects
Tangled Histories and Changing Contexts of the Burnett River Rock Engravings
Brit Asmussen, Lester Michael Hill, Sean Ulm, and Chantal Knowles
stewardship, unequal power and authority, and issues of ownership and control were the norm. These approaches now sit awkwardly with contemporary efforts focused on decolonizing practices, issues of authenticity in Aboriginal cultural landscapes, the
“Welcome to Country” and “Acknowledgment of Country”
(Re)Conciliatory Protest
Alessandro Pelizzon and Jade Kennedy
increasing scholarship has been devoted to appraising the current location of these practices in relation to contemporary discourses on Aboriginal sovereignty and the constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. 2 Such trends are
My Words, My Literacy
Tracking of and Teaching through the On-Field Language Practices of Australian Indigenous Boys
David Caldwell, Nayia Cominos, and Katie Gloede
Achieving parity in literacy for Indigenous Australians is an ongoing, complex issue, illustrated by the many initiatives, policies, and action plans intended to “close the gap” between the literacy levels of Aboriginal students and non-Aboriginal
Traveling with Trained Man
Decolonizing Directions in Railway Mobilities
Katie Maher
descent, as a point of departure for journeying across railway time-spaces in Australia and beyond. In traveling with Trained Man , I sketch how the railways have mobilized and carried colonial attempts to train Aboriginal people into whiteness, and I
Representing Aboriginality. A post‐colonial analysis of the key trends of representing aboriginality in South African, Australian and Aotearoa/New Zealand Film by Clelland‐Stokes, Sacha
HANA HORÁKOVÁ
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Feb 2009
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 121–123 (2 total)