Karin Speedy
Biographic Data
| ID | 253942 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karin Speedy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karin |
| FAMILY NAME | Speedy |
| SIGNATURE | SPEEDY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7108-7452 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Leaving Saint-Denis on an Open Boat
In the early 1860s, a series of cyclones, the sugar industry collapse and increasing impoverishment among the Reunionese were significant push factors for people to explore greener pastures in other colonies. At the same time, governor Guillain in the new French colony of New Caledonia actively sought to recruit skilled workers from Reunion to start up sugar production in the Pacific, to build the local infrastructure and provide settler bodies f…
Quitter Saint-Denis à bord d'une barque ouverte
Au début des années 1860, une série de cyclones, l'effondrement de l'industrie sucrière et l'appauvrissement grandissant des Réunionnais sont autant de facteurs qui poussent les gens à changer d'horizon en migrant vers d'autres colonies. En même temps, le gouverneur Guillain, récemment arrivé dans la nouvelle colonie française de Nouvelle-Calédonie, cherche activement à recruter des travailleurs réunionnais pour lancer la production de sucre dans…
Toppling Joubert
The #BlackLivesMatter (BLM) movement, which has seen the felling of statues of white invaders, colonisers and slave traders, has highlighted the racist legacy of slavery and the inequities, racism and ongoing impact of colonialism throughout the world. The toppling of statues sits within an ongoing historical push to remove visible tributes to colonial violence from the land. The colonial project, however, in its consumption and transformation of…
Transformative Mobilities and the Non-dit
Between 1860 and 1890, several thousand migrants from Reunion Island settled in New Caledonia. Most were fleeing poverty after the collapse of the sugar industry. While local legend has it that these settlers comprised a handful of rich, white planters and a contingent of Indian coolies, recent research into this group has demonstrated that the migration was on a far greater scale and was racially and socially diverse. Indeed, most Reunionese mig…
L’Ordre et la Morale
Most films about the Pacific may be described as transnational in terms of production (and often content), but is it ever possible, within a Postcolonial or Indigenous critique, to move beyond conversations about appropriation? And is the transnational aspect of the film the most useful way to categorise it? Specifically engaging with the Mathieu Kassovitz film L’Ordre et la morale, a retelling of the 1988 French military assault on Kanak hostage…
The Sutton Case
In 1858, a scandal rocked Sydney – the captain and the owner of the Sydney-based barque Sutton were accused of kidnapping 65 Pacific Islanders to sell to sugar planters on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion. While Dorothy Shineberg highlighted this incident in a 1984 publication, she based her story on official documents located in the French and British archives and, understandably, largely portrayed it as a diplomatic dispute between the coloni…
After me fellow caïcaï you
When it comes to European descriptions of the Other, the act of cannibalism has long been synonymous, to the Western imagination at least, with primitivism. As such, it often operates as a boundary line between the savage and the civilised. The spectre of the Kanak “anthropophages” of New Caledonia and the New Hebrides (Vanuatu) is ever-present in the writings of Georges Baudoux, whose fascination with cannibalism reflects the 19th-century coloni…
From the Indian Ocean to the Pacific
The sugar crisis of 1860 in Reunion motivated the migration of thousands of Réunionnais to New Caledonia. Along with sugar planters, wealthy enough to transport their production equipment as well as their indentured workers, significant groups of both skilled and unskilled labourers made their way from Reunion to the Pacific colony in the second half of the nineteenth century. In previous publications, I have focused my attention on the sugar ind…
Deux textes religieux de Bourbon du 18e siècle et l'histoire du créole réunionnais. Philippe-Albert Caulier C. M
Deux textes religieux de Bourbon du 18e siècle et l'histoire du créole réunionnais. Philippe-Albert Caulier C. M: Profession de Foy, en jargon des Esclaves Nêgres/Petit Catechisme de l'Isle de Bourbon tourné au Style des Esclaves Nêgres" published on 01 Jan 2009 by Brill
Who were the Reunion ‘Coolies’ of 19th-century New Caledonia
The history of the importation of ‘coolie’ labour from Reunion Island to New Caledonia in the 19th century is little known. While most historians mention the groups of ‘Malabars’ brought in to help colonists from Reunion set up the New Caledonian sugar industry, few have delved into the backgrounds or indeed identities of this particular group of contract labourers. Who were they? Where did they come from? What languages did they speak? What was …
Reunion Creole in New Caledonia
According to Ehrhart and Corne, Tayo is an endogenous creole that crystallized under the peculiarly plantation-like circumstances present at the St-Louis mission in the late 19th century. Noting some linguistic similarities with Reunion Creole, Chaudenson (1994) raises the question of whether Reunion Creole had had any influence on the development of Tayo. This notion is refuted both by Ehrhart (1994) and Corne (1994, 1995, 1999, 2000a, 2000b), a…
Early Louisiana French
(2002). EARLY LOUISIANA FRENCH. Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association: Vol. 97, No. 1, pp. 96-113
The Sutton Case
In 1858, a scandal rocked Sydney – the captain and the owner of the Sydney-based barque Sutton were accused of kidnapping 65 Pacific Islanders to sell to sugar planters on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion. While Dorothy Shineberg highlighted this incident in a 1984 publication, she based her story on official documents located in the French and British archives and, understandably, largely portrayed it as a diplomatic dispute between the coloni…
From the Indian Ocean to the Pacific
The sugar crisis of 1860 in Reunion motivated the migration of thousands of Réunionnais to New Caledonia. Along with sugar planters, wealthy enough to transport their production equipment as well as their indentured workers, significant groups of both skilled and unskilled labourers made their way from Reunion to the Pacific colony in the second half of the nineteenth century. In previous publications, I have focused my attention on the sugar ind…
Who were the Reunion ‘Coolies’ of 19th-century New Caledonia
The history of the importation of ‘coolie’ labour from Reunion Island to New Caledonia in the 19th century is little known. While most historians mention the groups of ‘Malabars’ brought in to help colonists from Reunion set up the New Caledonian sugar industry, few have delved into the backgrounds or indeed identities of this particular group of contract labourers. Who were they? Where did they come from? What languages did they speak? What was …
Early Louisiana French
(2002). EARLY LOUISIANA FRENCH. Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association: Vol. 97, No. 1, pp. 96-113
Early Louisiana French
(2002). EARLY LOUISIANA FRENCH. Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association: Vol. 97, No. 1, pp. 96-113
Reunion Creole in New Caledonia
According to Ehrhart and Corne, Tayo is an endogenous creole that crystallized under the peculiarly plantation-like circumstances present at the St-Louis mission in the late 19th century. Noting some linguistic similarities with Reunion Creole, Chaudenson (1994) raises the question of whether Reunion Creole had had any influence on the development of Tayo. This notion is refuted both by Ehrhart (1994) and Corne (1994, 1995, 1999, 2000a, 2000b), a…
Deux textes religieux de Bourbon du 18e siècle et l'histoire du créole réunionnais. Philippe-Albert Caulier C. M
Deux textes religieux de Bourbon du 18e siècle et l'histoire du créole réunionnais. Philippe-Albert Caulier C. M: Profession de Foy, en jargon des Esclaves Nêgres/Petit Catechisme de l'Isle de Bourbon tourné au Style des Esclaves Nêgres" published on 01 Jan 2009 by Brill
Who were the Reunion ‘Coolies’ of 19th-century New Caledonia
The history of the importation of ‘coolie’ labour from Reunion Island to New Caledonia in the 19th century is little known. While most historians mention the groups of ‘Malabars’ brought in to help colonists from Reunion set up the New Caledonian sugar industry, few have delved into the backgrounds or indeed identities of this particular group of contract labourers. Who were they? Where did they come from? What languages did they speak? What was …
From the Indian Ocean to the Pacific
The sugar crisis of 1860 in Reunion motivated the migration of thousands of Réunionnais to New Caledonia. Along with sugar planters, wealthy enough to transport their production equipment as well as their indentured workers, significant groups of both skilled and unskilled labourers made their way from Reunion to the Pacific colony in the second half of the nineteenth century. In previous publications, I have focused my attention on the sugar ind…
After me fellow caïcaï you
When it comes to European descriptions of the Other, the act of cannibalism has long been synonymous, to the Western imagination at least, with primitivism. As such, it often operates as a boundary line between the savage and the civilised. The spectre of the Kanak “anthropophages” of New Caledonia and the New Hebrides (Vanuatu) is ever-present in the writings of Georges Baudoux, whose fascination with cannibalism reflects the 19th-century coloni…
The Sutton Case
In 1858, a scandal rocked Sydney – the captain and the owner of the Sydney-based barque Sutton were accused of kidnapping 65 Pacific Islanders to sell to sugar planters on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion. While Dorothy Shineberg highlighted this incident in a 1984 publication, she based her story on official documents located in the French and British archives and, understandably, largely portrayed it as a diplomatic dispute between the coloni…
Transformative Mobilities and the Non-dit
Between 1860 and 1890, several thousand migrants from Reunion Island settled in New Caledonia. Most were fleeing poverty after the collapse of the sugar industry. While local legend has it that these settlers comprised a handful of rich, white planters and a contingent of Indian coolies, recent research into this group has demonstrated that the migration was on a far greater scale and was racially and socially diverse. Indeed, most Reunionese mig…
L’Ordre et la Morale
Most films about the Pacific may be described as transnational in terms of production (and often content), but is it ever possible, within a Postcolonial or Indigenous critique, to move beyond conversations about appropriation? And is the transnational aspect of the film the most useful way to categorise it? Specifically engaging with the Mathieu Kassovitz film L’Ordre et la morale, a retelling of the 1988 French military assault on Kanak hostage…
Toppling Joubert
The #BlackLivesMatter (BLM) movement, which has seen the felling of statues of white invaders, colonisers and slave traders, has highlighted the racist legacy of slavery and the inequities, racism and ongoing impact of colonialism throughout the world. The toppling of statues sits within an ongoing historical push to remove visible tributes to colonial violence from the land. The colonial project, however, in its consumption and transformation of…
Leaving Saint-Denis on an Open Boat
In the early 1860s, a series of cyclones, the sugar industry collapse and increasing impoverishment among the Reunionese were significant push factors for people to explore greener pastures in other colonies. At the same time, governor Guillain in the new French colony of New Caledonia actively sought to recruit skilled workers from Reunion to start up sugar production in the Pacific, to build the local infrastructure and provide settler bodies f…
Quitter Saint-Denis à bord d'une barque ouverte
Au début des années 1860, une série de cyclones, l'effondrement de l'industrie sucrière et l'appauvrissement grandissant des Réunionnais sont autant de facteurs qui poussent les gens à changer d'horizon en migrant vers d'autres colonies. En même temps, le gouverneur Guillain, récemment arrivé dans la nouvelle colonie française de Nouvelle-Calédonie, cherche activement à recruter des travailleurs réunionnais pour lancer la production de sucre dans…
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