Laura Rademaker
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 474895 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Laura Rademaker |
| NOMBRES | Laura |
| APELLIDO | Rademaker |
| FIRMA | RADEMAKER L |
| AFILIACIONES | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4059-6729 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Surface Rights
This article retraces the Woodward Commission on Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory, focusing on the question of mineral rights. Mineral rights were assumed in the Commission's terms of reference and expected by many Aboriginal people. Why, then, were they not recommended by the Commission? Looking at the submissions and the transcripts of the Commission's public hearings, I find that Woodward advanced the case against Aboriginal mi…
Providence and the Destiny of the “Heathen” in Australia’s Settler Colonies, 1788–1860s
This article seeks to unpick and expose the internal logics of the biblical arguments that were deployed to explain and justify settler colonization in Australia. Pushing beyond “subduing the earth” as the extent of the religious rationale for colonization to an understanding that incorporates the broader biblical narratives drawn on by settler colonists, it argues that colonists’ constructions of Aboriginal people’s spirituality as “heathenism” …
Being Counted
When the results of the 1966 census came out shortly after the 1967 referendum, they revealed something new: Australia's Aboriginal population was growing, rapidly. This article examines white fears of an Aboriginal 'population explosion' and technocratic attempts to slow Aboriginal population growth during the twilight of assimilation policies and the beginnings of 'self-determination'. It turns to two projects: one conducted by various governme…
Where the spirit of wisdom lies”
By the 1970s, Christian missions to Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory were enthusiastic supporters of Indigenous self‐determination, even as they sought to maintain a missionary presence in Aboriginal communities. This article asks how missions continued to seek to influence and direct Aboriginal churches and communities through espousing self‐determination, and how Aboriginal leaders engaged with and exploited this apparent contradicti…
Oceanic Histories
Years is not forever
Settler Australia is sometimes said to have experienced a ‘time revolution’ on realizing that Aboriginal people have dwelt here for millennia, mirroring the earlier European ‘time revolution’ when Europeans discovered humanity’s ‘deep’ past. This essay unpicks these twin ‘revolutions’ and explores how the idea of ‘time revolutions’ serves a settler society such as Australia. I suggest that celebration of quantitative ‘revolutions’ obscures qualit…
Deep Historicities
In seeking to understand the deep past, the knowledges of First Nations peoples and of the various academic disciplines can seem incommensurable. In this essay, we argue the concept of “historicities”, that is, the encultured ways of narrating and conceiving of the past offers to enrich the study of deep history. Sensitivity to the various ways the past is remembered and understood, as well as the ways in which these historicities are dialogicall…
A history of deep time
Over the course of the twentieth century, scholars have found diverse ways of reading ‘Aboriginal Dreaming’ stories as historical accounts of events in Australia’s ‘deep time’. This article argues that, when analysed alongside developments in Australian settler–Indigenous relations, the various readings of Aboriginal stories map onto changing views of Indigenous difference as well as the usefulness and value of Indigenous culture as a ‘deep histo…
Narlim’s Fingerprints
This article takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding Aboriginal rock art artists, drawing together insights from the disciplines of archaeology and biography, as well as from Indigenous knowledge-holders, in order to explore the life and work of a relatively unknown rock painter from western Arnhem Land in Australia: Narlim (born c. 1909). His rock art at Warlkarr (Hawk Dreaming) in Kakadu National Park stands as subtle but powerful …
Deep history and deep listening
This article outlines the possibilities of a deep history practice that engages with rather than sidelines Indigenous historical knowledges. Many Indigenous people insist that their knowledge of the deep past demands engagement. They do so, we suggest, because scientific historicism and Indigenous knowledge-systems and historicities already impinge upon and inform each other: they are intertwined. We propose ‘deep listening’ as a way historians m…
Dynamics of Difference in Australia
Dynamics of Difference in Australia: Indigenous Past and Present in a Settler Country." Australian Historical Studies, 51(1), pp. 91–92
Indigenous Self-Determination in Australia
Histories of the colonisation of Australia have recognised distinct periods or eras in the colonial relationship: 'protection' and 'assimilation'. It is widely understood that, in 1973, the Whitlam Government initiated a new policy era: 'self-determination'. Yet, the defining features of this era, as well as how, why and when it ended, are far from clear. In this collection we
Eaglehawk and Crow
In March 1974, a group of Aboriginal leaders presented an open letter to the then Australian Institute for Aboriginal Studies. Demanding Aboriginal ownership of Aboriginal knowledge from the anthropologists and other "experts," they titled their letter, "Eaglehawk and Crow."1 In doing so, they alluded to an 1899 book. In his Eaglehawk and Crow, ethnographer and Presbyterian minister John Mathew made the unusual move of taking Aboriginal stories (…
The Polygamy Question
Polygamy was a vexed question for missionaries in the Northern Territory of Australia. In the mid twentieth century, Christian missions of various denominations worked with the Australian Commonwealth Government to achieve a policy of assimilating Aboriginal people into white Australian culture. Yet there was little consensus as to how this assimilation policy could or should be applied to Aboriginal marriages. This article demonstrates that the …
Law, land and activism
Unorthodoxies
Not peer-reviewed
The Fountain of Public Prosperity
The Fountain of Public Prosperity is the crowning achievement of Stuart Piggin and Robert Linder's monumental project to chart the place of evangelicalism in the history of Australia's social, cult
What God Has Joined Together
Not peer-reviewed
White grief, happy friendship
In the 1950s, anthropologist Jane Goodale had bright hopes for her informant Happy Cook, an Aboriginal girl from the Tiwi Islands in North Australia, who she considered constrained by paternalistic government policies. Goodale was devastated witnessing Cook's suffering over following decades. Looking at Goodale's feelings of friendship turned to grief over the second half of the twentieth century, this article reveals a crisis of self-understandi…
Gender, Race, and Twentieth-Century Dissenting Traditions
This chapter bases its analysis of rapid changes in conceptions of race and gender in the contextual shifts in authority, autonomy, and demography within Dissenting Protestantism around the world, particularly between the bureaucratized, wealthy global North and the poor, mostly non-white and female churches in the global South. The chapter ‘embraces the intersection’ of categories of race and gender to avoid overlooking lived, embodied experienc…
Mythologies of Nation-Building in Australia Today
Peer-reviewed
Going Native
Historians and anthropologists have increasingly argued that the conversion of Indigenous peoples to Christianity occurred as they wove the new faith into their traditions. Yet this finding risks overshadowing how Indigenous peoples themselves understood the history of Christianity in their societies. This article, a case study of the Tiwi of North Australia, is illustrative in that it uses Tiwi oral histories of the ‘conversion’ of a priest in o…
Voices from the Community
The Importance of Marrying ‘Straight’
A Miserable Sectarian Spirit
This article examines the sectarianism that divided feminist organisations in early twentieth-century NSW. In 1903, the Catholic feminist Annie Golding took legal action against the Protestant paper, The Watchman, accusing it of libel. Through an examination of the five leading women embroiled in the Golding affair, this article shows that women activists saw women's political loyalties as potentially divided, not only by questions of labour or f…
Deep history and deep listening
This article outlines the possibilities of a deep history practice that engages with rather than sidelines Indigenous historical knowledges. Many Indigenous people insist that their knowledge of the deep past demands engagement. They do so, we suggest, because scientific historicism and Indigenous knowledge-systems and historicities already impinge upon and inform each other: they are intertwined. We propose ‘deep listening’ as a way historians m…
Indigenous Self-Determination in Australia
Histories of the colonisation of Australia have recognised distinct periods or eras in the colonial relationship: 'protection' and 'assimilation'. It is widely understood that, in 1973, the Whitlam Government initiated a new policy era: 'self-determination'. Yet, the defining features of this era, as well as how, why and when it ended, are far from clear. In this collection we
Oceanic Histories
A history of deep time
Over the course of the twentieth century, scholars have found diverse ways of reading ‘Aboriginal Dreaming’ stories as historical accounts of events in Australia’s ‘deep time’. This article argues that, when analysed alongside developments in Australian settler–Indigenous relations, the various readings of Aboriginal stories map onto changing views of Indigenous difference as well as the usefulness and value of Indigenous culture as a ‘deep histo…
Narlim’s Fingerprints
This article takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding Aboriginal rock art artists, drawing together insights from the disciplines of archaeology and biography, as well as from Indigenous knowledge-holders, in order to explore the life and work of a relatively unknown rock painter from western Arnhem Land in Australia: Narlim (born c. 1909). His rock art at Warlkarr (Hawk Dreaming) in Kakadu National Park stands as subtle but powerful …
Years is not forever
Settler Australia is sometimes said to have experienced a ‘time revolution’ on realizing that Aboriginal people have dwelt here for millennia, mirroring the earlier European ‘time revolution’ when Europeans discovered humanity’s ‘deep’ past. This essay unpicks these twin ‘revolutions’ and explores how the idea of ‘time revolutions’ serves a settler society such as Australia. I suggest that celebration of quantitative ‘revolutions’ obscures qualit…
Going Native
Historians and anthropologists have increasingly argued that the conversion of Indigenous peoples to Christianity occurred as they wove the new faith into their traditions. Yet this finding risks overshadowing how Indigenous peoples themselves understood the history of Christianity in their societies. This article, a case study of the Tiwi of North Australia, is illustrative in that it uses Tiwi oral histories of the ‘conversion’ of a priest in o…
Missions and Aboriginal difference
Judith Stokes had always hoped to be a missionary linguist and translate the Bible. But on her arrival at Angurugu, the Church Mission Society of Australia (CMS) Aboriginal Mission on Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory in 1952 as a schoolteacher, she discovered that linguists were not required. By looking at the experiences of Judith Stokes, I shed light on the tensions embedded in the evangelical missionary project in mid-twentieth century…
Language and Australian Aboriginal History Anindilyakwa and English on Groote Eylandt
The survival of the Anindilyakwa language of Groote Eylandt on its encounter with English is a story of Aboriginal people’s adaptability and perseverance in the face of alternate visions for their island. When the Church Missionary Society arrived and, with Anindilyakwa people, established the Angurugu mission, an ongoing tension began over which language would be the language of the land: English or Anindilyakwa? This article argues that, since …
Missions and Aboriginal difference
Judith Stokes had always hoped to be a missionary linguist and translate the Bible. But on her arrival at Angurugu, the Church Mission Society of Australia (CMS) Aboriginal Mission on Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory in 1952 as a schoolteacher, she discovered that linguists were not required. By looking at the experiences of Judith Stokes, I shed light on the tensions embedded in the evangelical missionary project in mid-twentieth century…
Mission, Politics and Linguistic Research
This article investigates the ways local mission and national politics shaped linguistic research work in mid-20th century Australia through examining the case of the Church Missionary Society's Angurugu Mission on Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory and research into the Anindilyakwa language. The paper places missionary linguistics in the context of broader policies of assimilation and national visions for Aboriginal people. It reveals how…
We want a good mission not rubish please’
When Yulgi Nunggumadjbarr, a Nunggubuyu woman, described the Angurugu mission where she grew up, her memories were fond
Only cuppa tea Christians’
‘Cuppa tea Christians’ were Aboriginal people whose faith was supposedly only as deep as their desire for a cuppa. At the Church Missionary Society of Australia’s Angurugu mission to Anindilyakwa people in the Northern Territory, missionaries in the 1960s suspected that most ‘conversions’ were only shallow. This article examines the long association in English speakers’ minds of Aboriginal cultures with insincerity or fakery. I argue that the pre…
Religion for the Modern Girl
When the feminist preacher Maude Royden (1876–1956) toured Australia in 1928, she promoted modern religion for modern women. This article examines the Australian press coverage of Royden’s visit to shed light on the complex relationships between religion, modernity and the female body as they were constituted in Australia in the 1920s. In doing so, this article contributes to growing historiographic debate concerning the intersections of modernit…
Voices from the Community
The Importance of Marrying ‘Straight’
A Miserable Sectarian Spirit
This article examines the sectarianism that divided feminist organisations in early twentieth-century NSW. In 1903, the Catholic feminist Annie Golding took legal action against the Protestant paper, The Watchman, accusing it of libel. Through an examination of the five leading women embroiled in the Golding affair, this article shows that women activists saw women's political loyalties as potentially divided, not only by questions of labour or f…
Gender, Race, and Twentieth-Century Dissenting Traditions
This chapter bases its analysis of rapid changes in conceptions of race and gender in the contextual shifts in authority, autonomy, and demography within Dissenting Protestantism around the world, particularly between the bureaucratized, wealthy global North and the poor, mostly non-white and female churches in the global South. The chapter ‘embraces the intersection’ of categories of race and gender to avoid overlooking lived, embodied experienc…
Mythologies of Nation-Building in Australia Today
Peer-reviewed
Going Native
Historians and anthropologists have increasingly argued that the conversion of Indigenous peoples to Christianity occurred as they wove the new faith into their traditions. Yet this finding risks overshadowing how Indigenous peoples themselves understood the history of Christianity in their societies. This article, a case study of the Tiwi of North Australia, is illustrative in that it uses Tiwi oral histories of the ‘conversion’ of a priest in o…
The Polygamy Question
Polygamy was a vexed question for missionaries in the Northern Territory of Australia. In the mid twentieth century, Christian missions of various denominations worked with the Australian Commonwealth Government to achieve a policy of assimilating Aboriginal people into white Australian culture. Yet there was little consensus as to how this assimilation policy could or should be applied to Aboriginal marriages. This article demonstrates that the …
Law, land and activism
Unorthodoxies
Not peer-reviewed
The Fountain of Public Prosperity
The Fountain of Public Prosperity is the crowning achievement of Stuart Piggin and Robert Linder's monumental project to chart the place of evangelicalism in the history of Australia's social, cult
What God Has Joined Together
Not peer-reviewed
White grief, happy friendship
In the 1950s, anthropologist Jane Goodale had bright hopes for her informant Happy Cook, an Aboriginal girl from the Tiwi Islands in North Australia, who she considered constrained by paternalistic government policies. Goodale was devastated witnessing Cook's suffering over following decades. Looking at Goodale's feelings of friendship turned to grief over the second half of the twentieth century, this article reveals a crisis of self-understandi…
Dynamics of Difference in Australia
Dynamics of Difference in Australia: Indigenous Past and Present in a Settler Country." Australian Historical Studies, 51(1), pp. 91–92
Indigenous Self-Determination in Australia
Histories of the colonisation of Australia have recognised distinct periods or eras in the colonial relationship: 'protection' and 'assimilation'. It is widely understood that, in 1973, the Whitlam Government initiated a new policy era: 'self-determination'. Yet, the defining features of this era, as well as how, why and when it ended, are far from clear. In this collection we
Eaglehawk and Crow
In March 1974, a group of Aboriginal leaders presented an open letter to the then Australian Institute for Aboriginal Studies. Demanding Aboriginal ownership of Aboriginal knowledge from the anthropologists and other "experts," they titled their letter, "Eaglehawk and Crow."1 In doing so, they alluded to an 1899 book. In his Eaglehawk and Crow, ethnographer and Presbyterian minister John Mathew made the unusual move of taking Aboriginal stories (…
Deep Historicities
In seeking to understand the deep past, the knowledges of First Nations peoples and of the various academic disciplines can seem incommensurable. In this essay, we argue the concept of “historicities”, that is, the encultured ways of narrating and conceiving of the past offers to enrich the study of deep history. Sensitivity to the various ways the past is remembered and understood, as well as the ways in which these historicities are dialogicall…
A history of deep time
Over the course of the twentieth century, scholars have found diverse ways of reading ‘Aboriginal Dreaming’ stories as historical accounts of events in Australia’s ‘deep time’. This article argues that, when analysed alongside developments in Australian settler–Indigenous relations, the various readings of Aboriginal stories map onto changing views of Indigenous difference as well as the usefulness and value of Indigenous culture as a ‘deep histo…
Narlim’s Fingerprints
This article takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding Aboriginal rock art artists, drawing together insights from the disciplines of archaeology and biography, as well as from Indigenous knowledge-holders, in order to explore the life and work of a relatively unknown rock painter from western Arnhem Land in Australia: Narlim (born c. 1909). His rock art at Warlkarr (Hawk Dreaming) in Kakadu National Park stands as subtle but powerful …
Deep history and deep listening
This article outlines the possibilities of a deep history practice that engages with rather than sidelines Indigenous historical knowledges. Many Indigenous people insist that their knowledge of the deep past demands engagement. They do so, we suggest, because scientific historicism and Indigenous knowledge-systems and historicities already impinge upon and inform each other: they are intertwined. We propose ‘deep listening’ as a way historians m…
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