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

本项目将分析19世纪30年代后保护土著人民的法律目标如何与澳大利亚殖民统治的目标交织在一起，通过警务和惩罚将他们转变为法律主体。它将通过审查土著人保护者、地方法官和骑警的日常工作来做到这一点，这些官员是殖民地官员的网络，他们的角色在殖民地关系仍在形成的边境环境中考验着法律的界限。在探讨人道主义改革目标与殖民发展要求之间的紧张关系时，它对实际追求对土著人民的管辖权的意图和争端产生了新的见解。

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.