Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0208335

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0208335

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The Mission to Civilise: Colonialism, Race and Criminal Codes. This project will consider the historical relationships between ideologies of race and law enforcement, and will chart their social formation and naturalisation. This will be set within the context of colonisation in Australia, where there existed tensions between the equally dominant ideologies of overt racism, and ideals of liberal universalism that justified the Rule of Law. Archival research will scrutinise the way in which the superficially racially-neutral language of criminality was constituted by notions such as property and civil order which became racialised in historically and socially specific ways, revealing underlying consistencies between apparently incompatible ideologies of colonial practices.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2002

End Date: 31-12-2006

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $45,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Historical Studies | History: Australian | History And Philosophy Of Law And Justice | Race And Ethnic Relations

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Justice and the law not elsewhere classified |

Other Keywords

Historical Studies | History And Philosophy Of Law And Justice | History: Australian | Justice and the law not elsewhere classified | Race And Ethnic Relations | Understanding Australia'S Past | Understanding the Pasts of Other Societies

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