Making Settler Colonial Space: Perspectives on Race, Place and Identity

Charts the making of colonial spaces in settler colonies of the Pacific Rim during the last two centuries. Contributions journey through time, place and region, and piece together interwoven but discrete studies that illuminate transnational and local experiences - violent, ideological, and cultural - that produced settler-colonial space.

Table of Contents:
Introduction; T.Banivanua Mar & P.Edmonds Guys Like Gauguin; S.Tusitala Marsh PART I: APPROPRIATING EMPTINESS Appropriating Space: Antarctic Imperialism and the Mentality of Settler Colonialism; A.Howkins Never Mind Our Country is the Desert; E.Vincent Carving Wilderness: National Parks and the Unsettling of Emptied Lands; T.Banivanua Mar The Clay Maiden; S.Barford PART II: FRONTIERS IN CADASTRAL AND URBANISING SPACES Don't Read Under a Coconut Tree; S.Barford Nervous Landscapes: Race and Space in Australia; D.Byrne The Intimate Urbanising Frontier: Native Camps and Settler Colonialism's Violent Array of Spaces around Early Melbourne; P.Edmonds Race, Greed, and Something More: The Erasure of Urban Indigenous Space in Early Twentieth-Century British Columbia; J.Barman PART III: MAKING AND UNMAKING PLACES Has the Whole Tribe Come Out From England?; S.Tusitala Marsh The Politics of 'periodical counting': Race, Place and Identity in Southern New Zealand; A.Wanhalla 'Fantastic Dreaming': Ebenezer Mission as Moravian Utopia and Wotjobaluk Responses; J.Lydon The Imagined Geographies of Settler Colonialism; L.Veracini PART IV: THIRDSPACE AND MIDDLE GROUNDS Acoustic Shadows; S.Barford Patyegarang and William Dawes: the Space of Imagination; R.Gibson Indigenous Spaces: Resisting Settler Colonialism; C.McKinnon Indigeneity's Challenges to the Settler State: Decentring the 'imperial binary'; J.T.Johnson Whakatangi; M.Strickson-Pua

About the Author :
TRACEY BANIVANUA MAR Lecturer in History, La Trobe University, Australia JEAN BARMAN Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia and fellow of the Royal Society of Canada DENIS BYRNE Research Head, Department of Environment and Climate Change NSW and Adjunct Professor, TransForming Cultures Centre, University of Technology, Sydney PENELOPE EDMONDS Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia ROSS GIBSON Professor of Contemporary Arts, the University of Sydney, Australia ADRIAN HOWKINS Assistant Professor in International Environmental History, Colorado State University, USA JAY T. JOHNSON Lecturer, University of Kansas, USA JANE LYDON Research Fellow, the Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies at Monash University, Australia SELINA TUSITALA MARSH Teacher in New Zealand and Pacific Literature, Auckland University, New Zealand CRYSTAL MCKINNON PhD Candidate, Department of Historical and European Studies, Latrobe University, Australia LORENZO VERACINI Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia EVE VINCENT PhD Candidate, the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia ANGELA WANHALLA Lecturer, Department of History, the University of Otago, New Zealand