Precarious subjects : Picturing Indigenous British subjecthood in mid-nineteenth-century Australia
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Nettelbeck, Amanda. (2023). Precarious subjects : Picturing Indigenous British subjecthood in mid-nineteenth-century Australia. Australian Historical Studies. 54(2), pp. 330-353. https://doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2022.2130380
Authors | Nettelbeck, Amanda |
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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. |
Year | 2023 |
Journal | Australian Historical Studies |
Journal citation | 54 (2), pp. 330-353 |
Publisher | Routledge |
ISSN | 1031-461X |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2022.2130380 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-85159661503 |
Page range | 330-353 |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 04 May 2023 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 19 Jul 2023 |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/8z560/precarious-subjects-picturing-indigenous-british-subjecthood-in-mid-nineteenth-century-australia
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