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Beyond Blank Spaces: Five Tracks to Late Nineteenth-Century Beltana
- Author(s):
- Samia Khatun (see profile)
- Date:
- 2015
- Subject(s):
- Indigenous peoples, History, Australia, Settler colonialism, Race, British territories and possessions
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Spatial History, Aboriginal mapping, Aboriginal History, Indigenous history, Australian history, Settler colonial studies, British empire
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6K82X
- Abstract:
- From the 1860s, the colonial settlement of Beltana in the northern deserts of South Australia emerged as a transportation hub atop an existing, cosmopol- itan center of Aboriginal trade. Viewing a colonial settlement on Kuyani land through a mobilities paradigm, this article examines intersecting settler and Aboriginal trajectories of movement through Beltana, illuminating their com- plex entanglements. Challenging the imperial myth of emptiness that shaped how Europeans saw the lands they invaded, this article renders visible the multiple imaginative geographies that existed at every colonial settlement. Examining mobility along Kuyani and Wangkangurru tracks alongside British mobilities, this article makes a methodological argument for writing multiaxial histories of settler colonialism.
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- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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