dc.contributor.author | Spitzer, Aaron | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-06-11T07:27:40Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-06-11T07:27:40Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.Published | Spitzer A. Constituting settler colonialism: the ‘boundary problem’, liberal equality, and settler state-making in Australia’s Northern Territory. Postcolonial Studies. 2019;22(4):545-564 | eng |
dc.identifier.issn | 1466-1888 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1368-8790 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1956/22537 | |
dc.description.abstract | Between Indigenous sovereignty and settler colonisation lie contested frontiers. I suggest Australia’s Northern Territory is one such frontier. This paper explores the 1998 settler campaign for Northern Territory statehood, the key to which was the framing of a constitution designed to eliminate Indigenous autonomy and empower settlers. I make three contributions. First, I showcase how settler colonialism is metapolitical, implicating political theory’s notorious ‘boundary problem’ in an effort to reconstitute Indigenous territories as ‘ours’ and Indigenous demoi as ‘us’. Second, I show that settlers may wage this metapolitical campaign using individual rights, to challenge as illiberal, and thus de-constitute, Indigenous demotic and territorial boundaries. Finally, I show that when Indigenous peoples resist by seeking to constitutionally entrench their own, alternate answers to the ‘boundary question’, there arises a dilemma over whether settler rights or Indigenous boundaries are the rightful ‘subject of justice’. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | eng |
dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | eng |
dc.rights | Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives CC BY-NC-ND | eng |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | eng |
dc.title | Constituting settler colonialism: the ‘boundary problem’, liberal equality, and settler state-making in Australia’s Northern Territory | eng |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en_US |
dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
dc.date.updated | 2019-12-18T08:04:33Z | |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | |
dc.rights.holder | Copyright 2019 The Author | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2019.1690763 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1761022 | |
dc.source.journal | Postcolonial Studies | |