What Is History in a Settler Colonial Society? Mapping the Limits and Possibilities of Ethical Historiography Using an Australian Case Study

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ID4495564
AuthorsA Clark (0000-0003-1003-9673, University of Technology Sydney, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume63
Issue4
Pages65-84
Publication date2024-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory and Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-2656 • E-ISSN: 1468-2303
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/hith.12360
OpenAlexW4403046656
LanguageEN
Citations received2

In recent decades, the role of the history discipline as part of the architecture of colonization has become more visible and better understood. Such acknowledgement reflects foundational shifts in historical practice and theory prompted by transdisciplinary and transnational scholarship in fields such as postcolonial and settler-colonial studies, First Nations knowledges, and historical perspectives and practices contextualized by transatlantic slavery. Their intervention in turn prompted a vital question: How do we map settler-colonial historiography if the discipline has been complicit in the settler-colonial project? Using Australian historiography as a case study, this article explores how History has been part of the architecture of colonization, policing whose stories can be told and by whom. Drawing on the work of Indigenous history-makers and knowledge-holders, it also points to ways that researchers might reach outside the traditional scope of historiography to map and contemplate the range of history-making that comprises history in the settler colony

Archaeology · Colonialism · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Genealogy · Historiography · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Philosophy

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