Colonial History, Contemporary Justice

土著学者长期以来一直认为，暴力是植根于殖民主义，这影响和表现在日常生活中的土著人民今天在澳大利亚。该项目旨在通过调查与警察或国家代理人发生的暴力和死亡事件，将澳大利亚殖民历史与当代司法事务之间的联系概念化。通过部署历史追踪的创新方法，该项目将通过确定暴力模式和历史化当代司法问题来产生新的知识，为殖民暴力带来新的理论，并为社会正义提供信息。

Indigenous scholars have long argued that violence is embedded in colonialism, which impacts and manifests in the everyday lives of Indigenous people today in Australia. This project aims to conceptualise the connection between colonial history and contemporary justice matters in Australia by investigating violence and deaths that have occurred through encounters with police or agents of the state. By deploying an innovative methodology of historical tracing, this project will generate new knowledge by identifying patterns of violence and historicising contemporary justice matters, to bring new theorising of colonial violence and inform social justice.