Governing Natives: Indirect Rule and Settler Colonialism in Australia's North

By Ben Silverstein

In the 1930s, a series of crises transformed relationships between settlers and Aboriginal people in Australia's Northern Territory. By the late 1930s, Australian settlers were coming to understand the Northern Territory as a colonial formation requiring a new form of government. Responding to crises of social reproduction, public power, and legitimacy, they re-thought the scope of settler colonial government by drawing on both the art of indirect rule and on a representational economy of Indigenous elimination to develop a new political dispensation that sought to incorporate and consume Indigenous production and sovereignties. This book locates Aboriginal history within imperial history, situating the settler colonial politics of Indigeneity in a broader governmental context.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784995266
• ISBN13: 9781784995263
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"