Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/29580
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)orcid ; Sullivan, Vanessa (author)
Corporate Author: River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation (RMMAC): Australia
Publication Date: 2016-12
Open Access: Yes
DOI: 10.22459/AH.40.2016.06Open Access Link
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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School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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