Precarious Subjects: Picturing Indigenous British Subjecthood in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Australia
| dc.contributor.author | Nettelbeck, A. | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.description.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. | |
| dc.description.statementofresponsibility | Amanda Nettelbeck | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Australian Historical Studies, 2023; 54(2):330-353 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/1031461X.2022.2130380 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1031-461X | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1940-5049 | |
| dc.identifier.orcid | Nettelbeck, A. [0000-0001-7099-6075] | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2440/138726 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis Online | |
| dc.relation.grant | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP200100088 | |
| dc.rights | © Editorial Board, Australian Historical Studies 2023 | |
| dc.source.uri | https://doi.org/10.1080/1031461x.2022.2130380 | |
| dc.title | Precarious Subjects: Picturing Indigenous British Subjecthood in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Australia | |
| dc.type | Journal article | |
| pubs.publication-status | Published |