Protection & Punishment: colonial networks & the legal reform of indigenous people, Australia 1837-1911

该项目将分析19世纪30年代以后根据法律保护土著人民的目标如何与澳大利亚殖民治理相结合，目的是通过维持治安和惩罚将土著人民转变为法律主体。为此，它将审查土著保护者、治安法官和骑警作为殖民官员网络的日常工作，这些官员的作用考验着殖民关系仍在形成的边境环境中的法律界限。在探讨人道主义改革目标和殖民发展要求之间的紧张关系时，它使人们对实际追求对土著人民的管辖权的意图和争端有了新的认识。

This project will analyse how objectives to protect Indigenous people under the law after the 1830s became entwined in Australian colonial governance with objectives to transform them into legal subjects through policing and punishment. It will do so by examining the everyday work of Protectors of Aborigines, magistrates and mounted police as a network of colonial officials whose roles tested the boundaries of law in frontier settings where colonial relationships were still in the making. In exploring tensions between goals of humanitarian reform and demands of colonial development, it generates new insight into the intents and disputes that marked the practical pursuit of jurisdiction over Indigenous people.