Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE140100385

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DE140100385

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

A Due Observance of Justice? Protectors of Aborigines in Britain’s Australasian Colonies, 1837-1857. This project will be the first comparative study of the Protectors of Aborigines in early colonial Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and New Zealand. Appointed by Britain's imperial government to shield Indigenous peoples 'from cruelty, oppression and injustice', the protectors held an ambiguous office, struggling to reconcile the conflicting aims of colonial ambition and humanitarian sentiment. They sat at the nexus of imperial, settler and Indigenous interests, negotiating a convergence of philanthropic enthusiasm and settler expansion. The lives of the protectors offer a unique insight into the human cost of colonial endeavour, its moral dilemmas and its lasting legacies.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 05-2014

End Date: 05-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $392,403.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Historical Studies | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History | Biography | Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Understanding New Zealand's Past | Understanding Australia's Past |

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