Open AccessBeyond Genocide: a comparative analysis of the elimination of Australia’s Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander people
Author(s) -
Thomas B. Crotty
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
new emerging scholars in australian indigenous studies.
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2208-1232
DOI - 10.5130/nesais.v2i1.1470
Subject(s) - genocide , indigenous , colonisation , colonialism , ethnology , history , genealogy , criminology , geography , political science , sociology , law , archaeology , ecology , colonization , biology
This paper explores the applicability of the term genocide to Australian colonisation, and considers whether the scholar Patrick Wolfe’s concept of settler colonialism’s inherent “logic of elimination” provides a more useful framework for considering Australian history.