Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140103049

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP140103049

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Protection & Punishment: colonial networks & the legal reform of indigenous people, Australia 1837-1911. This project will analyse how objectives to protect Indigenous people under the law after the 1830s became entwined in Australian colonial governance with objectives to transform them into legal subjects through policing and punishment. It will do so by examining the everyday work of Protectors of Aborigines, magistrates and mounted police as a network of colonial officials whose roles tested the boundaries of law in frontier settings where colonial relationships were still in the making. In exploring tensions between goals of humanitarian reform and demands of colonial development, it generates new insight into the intents and disputes that marked the practical pursuit of jurisdiction over Indigenous people.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2014

End Date: 12-2018

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $164,130.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

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

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Understanding Australia's Past |

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