Colonial History, Contemporary Justice

土著学者长期以来一直认为，暴力植根于殖民主义之中，这影响并体现在今天澳大利亚土著人民的日常生活中。该项目旨在通过调查因与警察或国家特工的接触而发生的暴力和死亡事件，来概念化殖民历史和澳大利亚当代司法问题之间的联系。通过采用一种创新的历史追踪方法，该项目将通过确定暴力模式和将当代司法问题历史化，产生新的知识，带来关于殖民暴力的新理论，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.