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Intimacies of Violence in the Settler Colony : Economies of Dispossession around the Pacific Rim
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'Violence and intimacy were critically intertwined at all stages of the settler colonial encounter, and yet we know surprisingly little of how they were connected in the shaping of colonial economies. Extending a reading of ‘economies’ as labour relations into new arenas, this innovative collection of essays examines new understandings of the nexus between violence and intimacy in settler colonial economies of the British Pacific Rim. The sites it explores include cross-cultural exchange in sealing and maritime communities, labour relations on the frontier, inside the pastoral station and in the colonial home, and the material and emotional economies of exploration. Following the curious mobility of texts, objects, and frameworks of knowledge, this volume teases out the diversity of ways in which violence and intimacy were expressed in the economies of everyday encounters on the ground. In doing so, it broadens the horizon of debate about the nature of colonial economies and the intercultural encounters that were enmeshed within them.'
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Mrs Milson’s Wordlist : Eliza Hamilton Dunlop and the Intimacy of Linguistic Work,
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'Early colonial linguistic collection reveals the intimate and ongoing negotiations between Indigenous people and their European interlocutors, and provides insight into colonial knowledge production as a shared, cross-cultural process. The poet Eliza Hamilton Dunlop constructed a wordlist from informants in Wollombi, transcribed songs, and published poetry sympathetic to Aboriginal suffering and dispossession from her arrival in New South Wales in 1838. Dunlop’s concerns for Aboriginal people and culture were heightened by her marriage to an agent of the law (David Dunlop was a police magistrate), and the couple were keenly interested in Aboriginal culture, language, and plight on the volatile and violent colonial frontier that surrounded them. The Dunlops had an acquaintance with Reverend Lancelot Threlkeld at the nearby Lake Macquarie Mission, who had shared interests in recording Aboriginal linguistic and cultural knowledge, and in publicising and lamenting colonial violence. This chapter examines Dunlop’s linguistic and other work to reveal the imbrication of language collection, knowledge production, and humanitarian advocacy.'
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