Sovereignty
Articles
- Cosmopolitanism, Sovereignty and Medievalism
This essay attempts to bring into conversation two unlikely bodies of writing. One of these bodies of writing dates from the Middle Ages and might…
1 November 2011 - The Time of Biopolitics in the Settler Colony
Kim Scott's description of the Moore River Native Settlement, also known as Mogumber, in his 1999 novel Benang, suggests implicit analogies with the mid-century…
1 June 2011 - Badlands and Borderlands: Self-Determination and the Limits of Intercultural Negotiation in the Fiction of Patricia Grace and Alice Tawhai
The essay examines and extends upon the trope of the borderlands as a conceptual geography employed by postcolonial theory, concentrating on the recent fiction of…
1 November 2010 - Indigenous Literature and the Extractive Industries
Phillip Mead discusses ‘two contemporary extensions of the discourse about the social and economic reality of extractive industries on the Indigenous plane of the literary…
1 November 2013 - Indigenous Sovereignty and the Crisis of Whiteness in Alexis Wright’s Carpenteria
Discusses Wright's 'foregrounding of whiteness as an object of critique'. 'Carpentaria breaks new ground by making whiteness one of its main subjects and by its…
1 November 2010