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

This unique collection of essays explores the conflicted, contested and shared histories that produced spaces of belonging and exile in colonies of settlement around the Pacific rim including Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, and British Columbia. Each contribution explores the thematic question of how the unique societies that developed from British settler-colonialism made and continue to make the spaces they occupy. In essays and poems, authors explore the spatial legacies of contact between Indigenous peoples and newcomers in a fascinating journey that takes readers from snowy deserts to emerging urban landscapes, and from census data to contemporary Indigenous music scenes. Collectively the essays offer a rich social history of the gridded, patchworked and layered visages that make up today's 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 is an historian of Indigenous and colonial histories, particularly of the western Pacific and Australia, and she teaches at La Trobe University. She has published articles and edited collections and her recent book Violence and Colonial Dialogue (University of Hawai'i Press, 2007) was shortlisted for two New South Wales Premiers' prizes for History in 2008. PENELOPE EDMONDS is an historian of colonial and postcolonial history, with a special interest in Australian and Pacific-region contact and transnational histories. Penny is the author of Urbanizing Frontiers: Indigenous Peoples and Settlers in 19th Century Pacific Rim Cities (University of British Columbia Press, 2009).