Genocide and Holocaust Consciousness in Australia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8103779 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Dirk Moses (0000-0002-2990-9571, The University of Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1478-0542 • E-ISSN: 1478-0542 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1478-0542.028 |
| OpenAlex | W2049872855 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 25 |
Ever since the British colonists in Australia became aware of the disappearance of the indigenous peoples in the 1830s, they have contrived to excuse themselves by pointing to the effects of disease and displacement. Yet although ‘genocide’ was not a term used in the nineteenth century, ‘extermination’ was, and many colonists called for the extermination of Aborigines when they impeded settlement by offering resistance. Consciousness of genocide was suppressed during the twentieth century – until the later 1960s, when a critical school of historians began serious investigations of frontier violence. Their efforts received official endorsement in the 1990s, but profound cultural barriers prevent the development of a general ‘genocide consciousness’. One of these is ‘Holocaust consciousness’, which is used by conservative and right‐wing figures to play down the gravity of what transpired in Australia. These two aspects of Australian public memory are central to the political humanisation of the country
Consciousness · Criminology · Frontier · Genocide · Indigenous · Political consciousness · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Settlement (finance · Sociology · The Holocaust · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Bangladesh Politics, Society, and Development · History · Law · Psychology · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
Imagined destinies
Holocaust in American Life
Blood Dries Quickly
Unspeakable Pasts as Limit Events
After the Holocaust
Coming to terms with genocidal pasts in comparative perspective
Discourses of genocide in Germany and Australia
Genocide in Australia
British policy towards the Australian aborigines, 1830–1850
Genocide in Australia
Introduction – Genocide
An antipodean genocide? The origins of the genocidal moment in the colonization of Australia
Conceptual constraints on thinking about genocide
The Holocaust, the Aborigines, and the bureaucracy of destruction
Conceptual blockages and definitional dilemmas in the 'racial century
Structure and Agency in the Holocaust
On The Border Of The Unsayable
Memory Unbound
On the Social Construction of Moral Universals
Public Art between Cultures
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2021 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |