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Title: | The space of conflict: Aboriginal/European interactions and frontier violence on the western Central Murray, South Australia, 1830-41 | Contributor(s): | Burke, Heather (author); Roberts, Amy (author); Morrison, Mick (author) ; Sullivan, Vanessa (author) | Corporate Author: | River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation (RMMAC): Australia | Publication Date: | 2016-12 | Open Access: | Yes | DOI: | 10.22459/AH.40.2016.06 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/29580 | Abstract: | Colonialism was a violent endeavour. Bound up with the construction of a market-driven, capitalist system via the tendrils of Empire, it was intimately associated with the processes of colonisation and the experiences of exploiting the land, labour and resources of the New World. All too often this led to conflict, particularly between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. Overt violence (the euphemistic 'skirmishes', 'affrays' and 'collisions' of the documentary record), clandestine violence (poisonings, forced removals, sexual exploitation and disease) and structural violence (the compartmentalisation of Aboriginal people through processes of race, governance and labour) became routinised aspects of colonialism, buttressed by structures of power, inequality, dispossession and racism. Conflict at the geographical margins of this system was made possible by the general anxieties of life at, or beyond, the boundaries of settlement, closely associated with the normalised violence attached to ideals of 'manliness' on the frontier. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Aboriginal History, v.40, p. 145-179 | Publisher: | Australian National University, Dept. of History | Place of Publication: | Australia | ISSN: | 1837-9389 0314-8769 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 210301 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History 210101 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeology |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 430107 Historical archaeology (incl. industrial archaeology) | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 950503 Understanding Australia's Past | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 130703 Understanding Australia’s past | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages: | S12 Yirawirung S18 Ngintait S19 Yuyu |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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