Equality and Exclusion
The Racial Constitution of Colonial Liberalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4481391 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marilyn Lake (0000-0002-9288-5808, La Trobe University, m.lake@ latrobe.edu.au, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 95 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 20-32 |
| Publication date | 2008-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Thesis Eleven (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0725513608095798 |
| OpenAlex | W1976033342 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 6 |
In his path-breaking study, A Colonial Liberalism: The Lost World of Three Victorian Visionaries (1991), Stuart Macintyre makes a case for the distinctiveness of colonial liberalism and its local habitat, with liberals' insistence on the principle of political equality and the democratic right of self-government. Macintyre's three visionaries - Higinbotham, Pearson and Syme - were also leading crusaders against Chinese immigration, which peaked in Victoria in the 1850s, the decade in which self-government and manhood suffrage were introduced. The local habitat wore a racial aspect. In this essay I suggest that it was precisely the democratic ideal of equality, espoused in the context of Chinese immigration and colonial nation-building, that led to the insistence on racial exclusion. Colonial liberals called for racial exclusion because of, not in spite of, their commitment to democracy. The apparent paradox of a policy of exclusion promoted in the name of equality was, I suggest, definitive of the project of colonial liberalism
Citizenship · Colonialism · Constitution · Democracy · Immigration · Liberalism · Optimal distinctiveness theory · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Suffrage · Australian History and Society · Gender Studies · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2018 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |