The Forgotten War of 1900: Jimmy Governor and the Aboriginal People of Wollar

Foster, Meg

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“…The area retains deep cultural significance for the Wiradjuri, and local Aboriginal people express a strong pride in the landscape, which they see as part of their cultural heritage. Wollar itself has, however, become a village marked by its settlement history, with many of the Aboriginal people who used to live there displaced by pastoralism during the colonial era or forcibly moved in the 1900s to a mission station about 400 km north-west of the village (for information about the Wiradjuri and the colonial dispossession, see Foster, 2019;Macdonald, 1998;Read, 1983Read, , 1984.…”

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Mining voids: Extraction and emotion at the Australian coal frontier

Askland

2020

Polar Record

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Wollar is a small village located in the Mid-Western Region in New South Wales, Australia. Geographically removed, climatically different and culturally distinct from the Arctic, it might seem as a distant case for the exploration of Arctic Uchranotopias and resource extraction; the topic of this Special Issue. Yet, the affective and temporal dimensions of mining are not necessarily restricted to distinct regions, and there are theoretical opportunities for cooperative analysis across diverse regions. By bringing forward this case study, I aim to illustrate how the concepts of mining emotions and Uchranotopia have applicability beyond the polar region and how a broader theory of mining emotions may be advanced. Through the notion of “mining voids,” I investigate how discourses of extraction as prosperity clash with lived experiences at the coal face. Mining voids—both present and future—have become markers for physical and social landscapes and, as a metaphor, it embeds the contradiction between utopian narratives of a coal-sponsored future and dystopian imaginings at the coal face. Through analysis of the discourses of mining voids and how, as the voids materialise, emotions are mined, I will tie this case study to the debate of Arctic resource extraction and community making, affect and temporality.

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Mining voids: Extraction and emotion at the Australian coal frontier

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2020

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“…He also told colonists about the injustices that led him to crime—which ranged from racial discrimination to labour exploitation, and disrespect shown to him and his family—but these rationalisations were overlooked, minimised and discounted. In their place, colonists crafted a narrative that these crimes were the result of Governor's inherently savage nature and that his Aboriginality led to an incomprehensible display of violence (Foster, 2017, 2019a, 2022a, pp. 123–189; Impact Studios, 2021).…”

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Bandits, heroes and villains: A view from a settler colony

Foster

2024

History Compass

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Abstract‘Bushrangers’ were late 18th to early 20th‐century bandits who lived in the Australian bush through the proceeds of crime, but today, they are national legends. A particular constellation of factors led to the white male bushranger's status as a national hero in Australia. By charting the development of bushranging historiography alongside bushranging in practice and the bushranging myth, this article will demonstrate the distinctive Australian and settler colonial dimensions of this bandit tradition. In describing how white bushranging men came to national prominence, the piece will also draw attention to those excluded from this legend—women and people of colour, with particular reference to Aboriginal people. The Australian bushranging myth, as it exists today, was not an organic or natural development. It was actively constructed by white settlers, including white settler historians.

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Unsettling Colonial Automobilities

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The Forgotten War of 1900: Jimmy Governor and the Aboriginal People of Wollar

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Mining voids: Extraction and emotion at the Australian coal frontier

Mining voids: Extraction and emotion at the Australian coal frontier

Bandits, heroes and villains: A view from a settler colony

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