Governing natives: Indirect rule and settler colonialism in Australia’s north, 1st Edition

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.Governing natives: Indirect rule and settler colonialism in Australia’s north 1st Edition is written by Ben Silverstein and published by Manchester University Press. ISBNs for Governing natives are 9781526100047, 1526100045 and the print ISBNs are 9781784995263, 1784995266. Additional ISBNs include 9781526100054.