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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Precarious Subjects: Picturing Indigenous British Subjecthood in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Australia |
Author: | Nettelbeck, A. |
Citation: | Australian Historical Studies, 2023; 54(2):330-353 |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Online |
Issue Date: | 2023 |
ISSN: | 1031-461X 1940-5049 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Amanda Nettelbeck |
Abstract: | Recent discussion in Australia has highlighted how Indigenous citizenship remains troubled by the denial of Indigenous sovereignty. This article takes up a pre-history to these discussions, returning to a transitional period (1830s–1850s) in the Australian colonies when governments worked to activate Indigenous people’s newly-clarified legal status as British subjects. How, in this period, did settler colonial culture envisage Indigenous people’s relation to the law as citizens-to-be of the empire? Focusing particularly upon visual vocabularies of policing and civic order, the article considers how vacillating colonial visions of Indigenous people as ‘new’ British subjects reflected a wider tension between settler culture’s non-recognition of Indigenous law and jurisdiction, and its running disquiet about the insecure terms of British sovereignty. |
Rights: | © Editorial Board, Australian Historical Studies 2023 |
DOI: | 10.1080/1031461X.2022.2130380 |
Grant ID: | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP200100088 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461x.2022.2130380 |
Appears in Collections: | History publications |
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