Abstract:The current revisioning of the nation-state in terms of questioning accountability for violence committed against Indigenous Australians was opened up by a shift in Australian historical scholarship that began to argue nation-building was inseparable from genocidal intent. This historiography has been part of a wider post-imperial turn that has refused nostalgia in order to understand how race was constructed as part of the imperial mission, and continues to refract and reiterate upon colony and metropole alik… Show more
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