Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0209444

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0209444

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

GENDER IDEOLOGY, RACIAL MYTHOLOGY AND THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF CHILD REMOVAL IN COLONIAL BURMA, CAMBODIA AND WESTERN AUSTRALIA, 1886-1947. The project aims to further understanding of colonial policies, missionary practices and public discourses supporting the removal of mixed-race children from Indigenous mothers and milieu. Its significance lies in its comparison of three diverse colonial regimes: British Burma, French Cambodia and Western Australia. Equally significant is its analysis of the transcolonial traffic in ideologies of race and gender and the contingent development and deployment of such universalizing tropes as the "Half-Caste Woman" to rationalize policies of child removal. The final outcome will be a book. Interim outcomes include a graduate workshop, an international conference and journal articles.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 15-02-2002

End Date: 14-02-2006

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $203,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Historical Studies | History: Australian | History: Asian | Multicultural, Intercultural And Cross-Cultural Studies |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Other Keywords

Communication Across Languages and Cultures | Historical Studies | History: Asian | History: Australian | Multicultural, Intercultural And Cross-Cultural Studies | Understanding Australia'S Past | Understanding the Pasts of Other Societies

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