An antipodean genocide? The origins of the genocidal moment in the colonization of Australia

Conceptual constraints on thinking about genocide

“…Although scholars, writers, and activists have addressed dozens of major genocides (Andreopoulos, 1994;Chalk and Jonassohn, 1990;Charny, 1994;Churchill, 1997;Des Forges, 1999;Fein, 1993;Gourevitch, 1998;Hovannisian, 1999;Jonassohn and Bjornson, 1998;Melson, 1998;Moses, 2000;Scherrer, 1999;Stannard, 1992;Tatz, 1999), the Holocaust is by far the most extensively researched. Even when theorists of genocide attempt to address general issues rather than the specifi cs of a particular case, they routinely take the Holocaust as central to their analysis (Lerner, 1992;Staub, 1989).…”

“…Applying a Holocaust-based concept of genocide, in particular, people identify genocides on the basis of whether an event is suffi ciently similar to the Holocaust in what they take to be relevant respects. Thus an overlapping but somewhat different set of historical events might have been seen as genocidal if our prototype, instead of the Holocaust, had been, say, the Armenian genocide of World War I (Hovannisian, 1999;Melson, 1998); the Cambodian genocide of the late 1970s (Hannum, 1989;Kiernan, 1994); the Rwandan genocide of 1994 (DesForges, 1999;Gourevitch, 1998); one of the numerous genocides associated with the European conquest of the Americas, Africa, and Australia (Chalk and Jonassohn, 1990;Churchill, 1997;Jonassohn and Bjornson, 1998;Moses, 2000;Stannard, 1992;Tatz, 1999); or any of the myriad other genocides of human history (Andreopoulos, 1994;Chalk and Jonassohn, 1990;Fein, 1993;Jonassohn and Bjornson, 1998;Scherrer, 1999).…”

Aspiration, achievement and access: The ACT-Indigenous Success pathway to university

“…From the open genocide of nation groups (Moses, 2000) and the forced removal of children (Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, HREOC, 1997), to the high levels of (both implicit and overt) racism still evident, Indigenous people continue to endure systematic, and systemic, discrimination (de Plevitz, 2006(de Plevitz, , 2007. The recent debate surrounding Adam Goodes (a talented Indigenous football player whose public stance concerning Indigenous issues has placed him at the centre of a national debate on racism) is a prime example of this.…”

From comparative to international genocide studies: The international production of genocide in 20th-century Europe

“…At the centre of these trends is a body of historical work on colonial genocide. Influentially, Dirk Moses (2000) has argued that genocide was a structural concomitant of European settler colonialism, leading to serial 'genocidal moments' in Australian history. Giving this approach wider purchase, a series of studies has documented widespread genocidal violence throughout the history of European colonization in the Americas, Asia and Africa (Kiernan, 2007;Levene, 2005b;Moses, 2004Moses, , 2008Moses and Stone, 2006).…”