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Imperial Emotions

The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire

By: Jane Lydon

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Imperial Emotions

The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire

By: Jane Lydon

Examines the politicisation of empathy across the British empire during the nineteenth century and traces its legacies into the present.

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Anti-Slavery and Australia

No Slavery in a Free Land?

By: Jane Lydon

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Anti-Slavery and Australia

No Slavery in a Free Land?

By: Jane Lydon

Bringing the histories of British anti-slavery and Australian colonization together changes our view of both. This book explores the anti-slavery movement in imperial scope, arguing that colonization in Australasia facilitated emancipation in the Caribbean, even as abolition powerfully shaped the Settler Revolution. The anti-slavery campaign was deeply entwined with the administration of the empire and its diverse peoples, as well as the radical changes demanded by industrialization and rapid social change in Britain. Abolition posed problems to which colonial expansion provided the answer, intimately linking the end of slavery to systematic colonization and Indigenous dispossession. By defining slavery in the Caribbean as the opposite of freedom, a lasting impact of abolition was to relegate other forms of oppression to lesser status, or to deny them. Through the shared concerns of abolitionists, slave-owners, and colonizers, a plastic ideology of ‘free labour’ was embedded within post-emancipation imperialist geopolitics, justifying the proliferation of new forms of unfree labour and defining new racial categories. The celebration of abolition has overshadowed post-emancipation continuities and transformations of slavery that continue to shape the modern world.

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Routledge

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0429817339

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Fantastic Dreaming

The Archaeology of an Aboriginal Mission

By: Jane Lydon, The University of Western Australia

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Fantastic Dreaming

The Archaeology of an Aboriginal Mission

By: Jane Lydon, The University of Western Australia

Focusing on the archaeological investigation of a Moravian mission in southeastern Australia, the traditional country of the Wergaia-language speakers,Fantastic Dreaming examines how spatial organization, the consumption of Western goods, and the practices required by domesticity were used to transform Aboriginal people.

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Rowman Altamira

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0759118043

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Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire

By: Jane Lydon

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Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire

By: Jane Lydon

With their power to create a sense of proximity and empathy, photographs have long been a crucial means of exchanging ideas between people across the globe; this book explores the role of photography in shaping ideas about race and difference from the 1840s to the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights. Focusing on Australian experience in a global context, a rich selection of case studies – drawing on a range of visual genres, from portraiture to ethnographic to scientific photographs – show how photographic encounters between Aboriginals, missionaries, scientists, photographers and writers fuelled international debates about morality, law, politics and human rights.Drawing on new archival research, Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire is essential reading for students and scholars of race, visuality and the histories of empire and human rights.

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1000211444

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Handbook of Postcolonial Archaeology

By: Jane Lydon

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Handbook of Postcolonial Archaeology

By: Jane Lydon

The contributors to this volume--themselves from six continents and many representing indigenous and minority communities and disadvantaged countries--suggest strategies to strip archaeological theory and practice of its colonial heritage and create a discipline sensitive to its inherent inequalities.

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Left Coast Press

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1598746987

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Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre Lyndall Ryan

By: Jane Lydon

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Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre Lyndall Ryan

By: Jane Lydon

The 1838 Myall Creek Massacre is remembered for the brutality of the crime committed by white settlers against innocent Aboriginal men, women and children, but also because eleven of the twelve assassins were arrested and brought to trial. Amid tremendous controversy, seven were hanged. Myall Creek was not the last time the colonial administration sought to apply the law equally to Aboriginal people and settlers, but it was the last time perpetrators of a massacre were convicted and hanged. Marking its 180th anniversary, this book explores the significance of one of the most horrifying events of Australian colonialism. Thoughtful and fearless, it challenges us to look at our history without flinching as an act of remembrance and reconciliation.

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NewSouth

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174224419X

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Eye Contact

Photographing Indigenous Australians

By: Jane Lydon

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Photographing Indigenous Australians

By: Jane Lydon

An indigenous reservation in the colony of Victoria, Australia, the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station was a major site of cross-cultural contact the mid-nineteenth century and early twentieth. Coranderrk was located just outside Melbourne, and from its opening in the 1860s the colonial government commissioned many photographs of its Aboriginal residents. The photographs taken at Coranderrk Station circulated across the western world; they were mounted in exhibition displays and classified among other ethnographic “data” within museum collections. The immense Coranderrk photographic archive is the subject of this detailed, richly illustrated examination of the role of visual imagery in the colonial project. Offering close readings of the photographs in the context of Australian history and nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century photographic practice, Jane Lydon reveals how western society came to understand Aboriginal people through these images. At the same time, she demonstrates that the photos were not solely a tool of colonial exploitation. The residents of Coranderrk had a sophisticated understanding of how they were portrayed, and they became adept at manipulating their representations. Lydon shows how the photographic portrayals of the Aboriginal residents of Coranderrk changed over time, reflecting various ideas of the colonial mission—from humanitarianism to control to assimilation. In the early twentieth century, the images were used on stereotypical postcards circulated among the white population, showing what appeared to be compliant, transformed Aboriginal subjects. The station closed in 1924 and disappeared from public view until it was rediscovered by scholars years later. Aboriginal Australians purchased the station in 1998, and, as Lydon describes, today they are using the Coranderrk photographic archive in new ways, to identify family members and tell stories of their own.

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331

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Duke University Press

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0822387255

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Imagined Landscapes

Geovisualizing Australian Spatial Narratives

By: Jane Stadler,Peta Mitchell,Stephen Carleton

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Imagined Landscapes

Geovisualizing Australian Spatial Narratives

By: Jane Stadler,Peta Mitchell,Stephen Carleton

An analysis of the depiction of Australia’s landscape in its films and literature. Imagined Landscapes teams geocritical analysis with digital visualization techniques to map and interrogate films, novels, and plays in which space and place figure prominently. Drawing upon A Cultural Atlas of Australia, a database-driven interactive digital map that can be used to identify patterns of representation in Australia’s cultural landscape, the book presents an integrated perspective on the translation of space across narrative forms and pioneers new ways of seeing and understanding landscape. It offers fresh insights on cultural topography and spatial history by examining the technical and conceptual challenges of georeferencing fictional and fictionalized places in narratives. Among the items discussed are Wake in Fright, a novel by Kenneth Cook, adapted iconically to the screen and recently onto the stage; the Australian North as a mythic space; spatial and temporal narrative shifts in retellings of the story of Alexander Pearce, a convict who gained notoriety for resorting to cannibalism after escaping from a remote Tasmanian penal colony; travel narratives and road movies set in Western Australia; and the challenges and spatial politics of mapping spaces for which there are no coordinates. “It will likely be the indispensable touchstone for any future work in these areas with respect to Australian cultural studies.” —Robert T. Tally, Texas State University “Definitely original in its approach, since it combines a conceptual approach with a more applied one. The book is a serious contribution to the field of mapping spatial narratives and to a better understanding of the production and spatial structure of fictional places.” —Sébastien Caquard, Concordia University

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Indiana University Press

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0253018498

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Imperial Emotions

The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire

By: Jane Lydon

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The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire

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Examines the politicisation of empathy across the British empire during the nineteenth century and traces its legacies into the present.

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Anti-Slavery and Australia

No Slavery in a Free Land?

By: Jane Lydon

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No Slavery in a Free Land?

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Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire

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The Flash of Recognition

Photography and the emergence of Indigenous rights

By: Jane Lydon

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The Flash of Recognition

Photography and the emergence of Indigenous rights

By: Jane Lydon

As a student, Jane Lydon was shocked by the photograph on the cover of Charles Rowley’s 1970 classic, The Destruction of Aboriginal Society, which showed two Aboriginal men in neck-chains. In this original and highly illustrated book she uses photography to tell a bigger story of the struggle for Aboriginal rights in Australia. While many of the images are confronting, the book tells the positive story of the way in which photography has been used as a tool for change and to argue for recognition of our shared humanity. Starting at the turn of the twentieth century and continuing to the NT Intervention in the present, the book includes more than 60 images taken from newspapers and journals, as well as the work of contemporary artists.

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NewSouth

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Fantastic Dreaming

The Archaeology of an Aboriginal Mission

By: Jane Lydon, The University of Western Australia

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The Archaeology of an Aboriginal Mission

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Book's by Jane Lydon, The University of Western Australia

Imperial Emotions

Imperial Emotions

Anti-Slavery and Australia

Anti-Slavery and Australia

Fantastic Dreaming

Fantastic Dreaming

Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire

Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire

Handbook of Postcolonial Archaeology

Handbook of Postcolonial Archaeology

Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre Lyndall Ryan

Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre Lyndall Ryan

Eye Contact

Eye Contact

Imagined Landscapes

Imagined Landscapes

Imperial Emotions

Imperial Emotions

Anti-Slavery and Australia

Anti-Slavery and Australia

Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire

Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire

The Flash of Recognition

The Flash of Recognition

Fantastic Dreaming

Fantastic Dreaming

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