Victorian liberalism and the effect of sovereignty
A view from the settler periphery
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12650663 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leigh Boucher (0000-0003-2136-2791, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 35-51 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Australia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1449-0854 • E-ISSN: 1833-4881 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14490854.2016.1156142 |
| OpenAlex | W2463626719 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Postcolonial thinking has offered ‘new imperial’ historians productive avenues to reconsider the relationship between nineteenth-century liberalism and the British Empire. Questions of territory and sovereignty have, however, often been seen as secondary in these new histories of the citizen-subject of liberalism. From an Antipodean perspective, this seems a remarkable elision. Through an examination of the ideas of liberals in colonial Victoria, this article explores whether we might consider sovereignty as a ghost in the machine of everyday liberalism and asks whether these questions should remain safely on the imperial margins. Drawing on theorisations of settler-colonialism that have emerged in Antipodean historical research, this article proposes to read the political subject of the mid-nineteenth-century liberal imagination as both effecting and an effect of sovereignty.This article has been peer reviewed
Aesthetics · British Empire · Colonialism · Empire · Imperial unit system · Liberalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · Subject (documents · Australian History and Society · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2022 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |