Gareth Knapman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 219494 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gareth Knapman |
| PRENOMES | Gareth |
| SOBRENOME | Knapman |
| ASSINATURA | KNAPMAN G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4431-6659 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Sovereignty and Treaties as Colonial Instruments
This article examines how sovereignty and treaties functioned as colonial instruments during the British occupation of Java (1811–1815). The British East India Company imposed the language of sovereignty not to engage with Javanese polities, but to justify conquest and colonisation to audiences in London: the Court of Directors, Parliament, and the Crown. Treaties concluded with the Susuhunan of Surakarta and the Sultan of Yogyakarta were not neg…
Collection Ecologies for Repatriation Practice
From the 1850s to the 1970s, Australian collecting institutions supplied international organisations with thousands of Australian Indigenous objects, often through exchanges, other times through do
Disarming the Resistance
The history, legality and modern implications of police collecting of Indigenous Ancestral Remains and cultural property and the role of museums and governments in directing this activity. It is increasingly well known that police perpetrated violence against First Nations throughout the colonial period. But their role in supplying human remains and cultural objects to domestic and overseas museums is little understood, nor whether they exceeded …
Recent writing on colonial plunder and museums
This review addresses three books from the growing literature on ‘plunder’ and museums. The current fascination with plunder is the raison d’être that drove Adam Kuper and Justin Jacobs to publish
Uninhabited Islands in the Bay of Bengal, Penang, Singapore and Botany Bay
Enlightenment colonial actors never used the term 'terra nullius', they used the phrase 'uninhabited land or island'. In the 1780s, uninhabited did not mean nobody lived there, but rather signified a land without a sovereign. This article contrasts British East India Company deliberations on the habitation of islands in the Eastern Indian Ocean, with the discussions on habitation in Botany Bay prior to 1788. Between 1778 and 1786, there were prop…
An Informed Neural Network for Discovering Historical Documentation Assisting the Repatriation of Indigenous Ancestral Human Remains
Among the pressing issues facing Australian and other First Nations peoples is the repatriation of the bodily remains of their ancestors, which are currently held in Western scientific institutions. The success of securing the return of these remains to their communities for reburial depends largely on locating information within scientific and other literature published between 1790 and 1970 documenting their theft, donation, sale, or exchange b…
Feudalism and Indigenous Sovereignty
Legal reasoning about British sovereignty over its colonies drew on an idea in British law: that a subject was in a feudal relationship of obligation to the British sovereign. When British subjects made land tenure arrangements with native authorities beyond Britain, they were understood to be entering into a feudal relationship with a foreign sovereign – a potentially treasonous action. This article compares British responses to John Batman’s 18…
Settler colonialism and usurping Malay sovereignty in Singapore
This article proposes that Singapore should be considered as a settler colony during its first years of settlement. The first Residents, William Farquhar, Thomas Stamford Raffles and John Crawfurd all attempted to build Singapore as a settler colony, similar to those in Australia and North America. The difference was, however, that they looked to attract Chinese, Malay and Indian settlers as well as Europeans. By viewing Singapore as a settler co…
The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Repatriation
Many museums and other scientific institutions still possessing the bodily remains of Indigenous people no longer resist considering their repatriation to the care of descendant communities. Whereas unconditional repatriation is now the norm in Australasia, North America and southern Africa, European museums and government cultural agencies hold to the view that releasing remains to the care of Indigenous claimants should only occur when there is…
Profit and loss
This chapter is the first substantial examination of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century commercial trade in Indigenous Ancestral Remains. Previous scholarly research has focused on networks of donation, gift and patronage. Although noting its presence, such scholarship has failed to realise the prevalence of commercial dealings or explore its nature and extent. This chapter focuses on the various mechanisms involved in this arena of comm…
Liberalism and the British Empire in Southeast Asia
The radical Scottish doctor, Orientalist, colonial administrator and lobbyist, John Crawfurd was a proponent for the creation of a utopian empire based on free trade. He worked for the British East India Company for more than twenty years and played a crucial part in the administration of the British Empire in nineteenth century Southeast Asia. Crawfurd's 1829 pamphlet was remarkable, if for no other reason than, as part of the anti-monopoly camp…
Southeast Asia in Ruins. Art and Empire in the Early 19th Century, written by Sarah Tiffin
2016 was the 200th anniversary of the British returning Java to the Dutch after the Napoleonic Wars. It also saw the first major scholarly publications on early nineteenth century British colonialism in Southeast Asia since the 1990s: Farish Noors’ The Discursive Construction of Southeast Asia in 19th-Century Colonial- Capitalist Discourse, Gareth Knapman’s Race and British Colonialism in Southeast Asia, and the subject of this review, Sarah Tiff…
Recent ‘Studies in Imperialism’ series on the Raj
Welsh Missionaries and British Imperialism: The Empire of Clouds in North-East India, by Andrew J. May, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2012, 312 pp.,£18, ISBN 978-0-7190-9997-7 Learning Femininity in Colonial India, 1820–1932, by Tim Allender, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2016, 312 pp., £75, ISBN 978-0-7190-8579-6
Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange
There is a noticeable trend towards intrigue in recent writing on the history of British anthropological \nsocieties. Ter Ellingson’s Myth of the Noble Savage, a search for the inventor of the term, \nis a glaring example of conspiracy as history writing, but Adrian Desmond and James Moore’s \nSacred Curse, although much more nuanced, also focused on the power play behind 19thcentury \nscience. Marc Flandreau’s Anthropologists in the Stock Exchan…
Race, polygenesis and equality
The nineteenth-century Orientalist and ethnologist, John Crawfurd, publicly rejected Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution in 1868. Crawfurd was a leading advocate of polygenesis but also a supporter of racial equality. In 1820 he published his History of the Indian Archipelago, where he advocated granting household suffrage to all races in the British colonies. After finishing a career in the East India Company in 1828 he became the foremost expe…
Race and British Colonialism in Southeast Asia, 1770-1870
The idea of "race" played an increasing role in nineteenth-century British colonial thought. For most of the nineteenth century, John Crawfurd towered over British colonial policy in South-East Asia, being not only a colonial administrator, journalist and professional lobbyist, but also one of the key racial theorists in the British Empire. He approached colonialism as a radical liberal, proposing universal voting for all races in British colonie…
Anzac Day at Home and Abroad
Over the last hundred years, Anzac Day (25 April), the anniversary of the initial landing of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) at Gallipoli in 1915, has captured the Australian and New Zealand national imaginations. The day remembers the first significant engagement involving Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the First World War. This article is an early report of a major project that will chart Anzac Day’s origins, development a…
Orang-utans, Tribes, and Nations
This article explores how early anthropological writing (1830s and 1840s) on the nation faced the question: How natural was the nation? In exploring development of the nation from the tribe, colonial ethnological writers in Southeast Asia also explored the limits of primordialism. Debates on the humanity of the orang-utan represented the search for these limits. The theme of degeneracy underpinned these connections. Degeneracy was a complex belie…
Liberal dreams
This article focuses on the introduction of ethnicity into Southeast Asia, as a component of the nineteenth century British projection of empire. The argument is that rather than projecting a cosmopolitan vision of community, British liberalism naturalised ethnicity through the concept of civil society. This presented a global vision of societies being independent and emerging from the local landscape. These liberal notions of civil society repre…
Anzac Day at Home and Abroad
Over the last hundred years, Anzac Day (25 April), the anniversary of the initial landing of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) at Gallipoli in 1915, has captured the Australian and New Zealand national imaginations. The day remembers the first significant engagement involving Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the First World War. This article is an early report of a major project that will chart Anzac Day’s origins, development a…
Orang-utans, Tribes, and Nations
This article explores how early anthropological writing (1830s and 1840s) on the nation faced the question: How natural was the nation? In exploring development of the nation from the tribe, colonial ethnological writers in Southeast Asia also explored the limits of primordialism. Debates on the humanity of the orang-utan represented the search for these limits. The theme of degeneracy underpinned these connections. Degeneracy was a complex belie…
Liberal dreams
This article focuses on the introduction of ethnicity into Southeast Asia, as a component of the nineteenth century British projection of empire. The argument is that rather than projecting a cosmopolitan vision of community, British liberalism naturalised ethnicity through the concept of civil society. This presented a global vision of societies being independent and emerging from the local landscape. These liberal notions of civil society repre…
Liberal dreams
This article focuses on the introduction of ethnicity into Southeast Asia, as a component of the nineteenth century British projection of empire. The argument is that rather than projecting a cosmopolitan vision of community, British liberalism naturalised ethnicity through the concept of civil society. This presented a global vision of societies being independent and emerging from the local landscape. These liberal notions of civil society repre…
Orang-utans, Tribes, and Nations
This article explores how early anthropological writing (1830s and 1840s) on the nation faced the question: How natural was the nation? In exploring development of the nation from the tribe, colonial ethnological writers in Southeast Asia also explored the limits of primordialism. Debates on the humanity of the orang-utan represented the search for these limits. The theme of degeneracy underpinned these connections. Degeneracy was a complex belie…
Anzac Day at Home and Abroad
Over the last hundred years, Anzac Day (25 April), the anniversary of the initial landing of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) at Gallipoli in 1915, has captured the Australian and New Zealand national imaginations. The day remembers the first significant engagement involving Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the First World War. This article is an early report of a major project that will chart Anzac Day’s origins, development a…
Race, polygenesis and equality
The nineteenth-century Orientalist and ethnologist, John Crawfurd, publicly rejected Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution in 1868. Crawfurd was a leading advocate of polygenesis but also a supporter of racial equality. In 1820 he published his History of the Indian Archipelago, where he advocated granting household suffrage to all races in the British colonies. After finishing a career in the East India Company in 1828 he became the foremost expe…
Race and British Colonialism in Southeast Asia, 1770-1870
The idea of "race" played an increasing role in nineteenth-century British colonial thought. For most of the nineteenth century, John Crawfurd towered over British colonial policy in South-East Asia, being not only a colonial administrator, journalist and professional lobbyist, but also one of the key racial theorists in the British Empire. He approached colonialism as a radical liberal, proposing universal voting for all races in British colonie…
Southeast Asia in Ruins. Art and Empire in the Early 19th Century, written by Sarah Tiffin
2016 was the 200th anniversary of the British returning Java to the Dutch after the Napoleonic Wars. It also saw the first major scholarly publications on early nineteenth century British colonialism in Southeast Asia since the 1990s: Farish Noors’ The Discursive Construction of Southeast Asia in 19th-Century Colonial- Capitalist Discourse, Gareth Knapman’s Race and British Colonialism in Southeast Asia, and the subject of this review, Sarah Tiff…
Recent ‘Studies in Imperialism’ series on the Raj
Welsh Missionaries and British Imperialism: The Empire of Clouds in North-East India, by Andrew J. May, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2012, 312 pp.,£18, ISBN 978-0-7190-9997-7 Learning Femininity in Colonial India, 1820–1932, by Tim Allender, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2016, 312 pp., £75, ISBN 978-0-7190-8579-6
Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange
There is a noticeable trend towards intrigue in recent writing on the history of British anthropological \nsocieties. Ter Ellingson’s Myth of the Noble Savage, a search for the inventor of the term, \nis a glaring example of conspiracy as history writing, but Adrian Desmond and James Moore’s \nSacred Curse, although much more nuanced, also focused on the power play behind 19thcentury \nscience. Marc Flandreau’s Anthropologists in the Stock Exchan…
Liberalism and the British Empire in Southeast Asia
The radical Scottish doctor, Orientalist, colonial administrator and lobbyist, John Crawfurd was a proponent for the creation of a utopian empire based on free trade. He worked for the British East India Company for more than twenty years and played a crucial part in the administration of the British Empire in nineteenth century Southeast Asia. Crawfurd's 1829 pamphlet was remarkable, if for no other reason than, as part of the anti-monopoly camp…
The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Repatriation
Many museums and other scientific institutions still possessing the bodily remains of Indigenous people no longer resist considering their repatriation to the care of descendant communities. Whereas unconditional repatriation is now the norm in Australasia, North America and southern Africa, European museums and government cultural agencies hold to the view that releasing remains to the care of Indigenous claimants should only occur when there is…
Profit and loss
This chapter is the first substantial examination of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century commercial trade in Indigenous Ancestral Remains. Previous scholarly research has focused on networks of donation, gift and patronage. Although noting its presence, such scholarship has failed to realise the prevalence of commercial dealings or explore its nature and extent. This chapter focuses on the various mechanisms involved in this arena of comm…
Settler colonialism and usurping Malay sovereignty in Singapore
This article proposes that Singapore should be considered as a settler colony during its first years of settlement. The first Residents, William Farquhar, Thomas Stamford Raffles and John Crawfurd all attempted to build Singapore as a settler colony, similar to those in Australia and North America. The difference was, however, that they looked to attract Chinese, Malay and Indian settlers as well as Europeans. By viewing Singapore as a settler co…
Feudalism and Indigenous Sovereignty
Legal reasoning about British sovereignty over its colonies drew on an idea in British law: that a subject was in a feudal relationship of obligation to the British sovereign. When British subjects made land tenure arrangements with native authorities beyond Britain, they were understood to be entering into a feudal relationship with a foreign sovereign – a potentially treasonous action. This article compares British responses to John Batman’s 18…
Uninhabited Islands in the Bay of Bengal, Penang, Singapore and Botany Bay
Enlightenment colonial actors never used the term 'terra nullius', they used the phrase 'uninhabited land or island'. In the 1780s, uninhabited did not mean nobody lived there, but rather signified a land without a sovereign. This article contrasts British East India Company deliberations on the habitation of islands in the Eastern Indian Ocean, with the discussions on habitation in Botany Bay prior to 1788. Between 1778 and 1786, there were prop…
An Informed Neural Network for Discovering Historical Documentation Assisting the Repatriation of Indigenous Ancestral Human Remains
Among the pressing issues facing Australian and other First Nations peoples is the repatriation of the bodily remains of their ancestors, which are currently held in Western scientific institutions. The success of securing the return of these remains to their communities for reburial depends largely on locating information within scientific and other literature published between 1790 and 1970 documenting their theft, donation, sale, or exchange b…
Collection Ecologies for Repatriation Practice
From the 1850s to the 1970s, Australian collecting institutions supplied international organisations with thousands of Australian Indigenous objects, often through exchanges, other times through do
Disarming the Resistance
The history, legality and modern implications of police collecting of Indigenous Ancestral Remains and cultural property and the role of museums and governments in directing this activity. It is increasingly well known that police perpetrated violence against First Nations throughout the colonial period. But their role in supplying human remains and cultural objects to domestic and overseas museums is little understood, nor whether they exceeded …
Recent writing on colonial plunder and museums
This review addresses three books from the growing literature on ‘plunder’ and museums. The current fascination with plunder is the raison d’être that drove Adam Kuper and Justin Jacobs to publish
Sovereignty and Treaties as Colonial Instruments
This article examines how sovereignty and treaties functioned as colonial instruments during the British occupation of Java (1811–1815). The British East India Company imposed the language of sovereignty not to engage with Javanese polities, but to justify conquest and colonisation to audiences in London: the Court of Directors, Parliament, and the Crown. Treaties concluded with the Susuhunan of Surakarta and the Sultan of Yogyakarta were not neg…
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