In her paper, "Adventure Tales, Colonialism, and Alexander Montgomery's Australian Perspective," Christine Doran discusses an early nineteenth-century example of Australian literature dealing with Southeast Asia. The text analysed is about Borneo, in a collection of short stories by Alexander Montgomery entitled Five-Skull Island and Other Tales of the Malay Archipelago, published in Melbourne ...

Very little scholarship has specifically considered the phenomenon of eviction as a colonial process, or examined role legal system in reproducing structures and relations. Our aim this article is to address gap thereby extend context work scholars who have theorized colonialism criminal justice, child welfare, carceral systems. This begins with an overview current issues relating urban Indigen...

In this paper I explore a method for refusing uptake when explanations are morally and epistemically troubling. Gaile Pohlhaus Jr (2011) has shown that imploring marginalised people to “understand” marginalising practices amounts request they legitimise their own marginalisation. paper, expand upon analysis with the aim of describing withholding understanding. First, analyse understanding throu...

It is commonplace enough to observe that nineteenth century Britain could not forever maintain her global hegemony. The world's first industrial power was bound to be challenged by the rise of modern industrial economies in the United States, Germany and Japan. Similarly, the contraction of the capitalist world and the collapse of colonialism were events over which Britain had little direct con...