干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): The logic of survival: towards an Indigenous-centred history of capitalism in Wilcannia

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DOI	10.1080/2201473X.2017.1363967
	The logic of survival: towards an Indigenous-centred history of capitalism in Wilcannia
	Forsyth, Hannah; Gavranovic, Altin
通讯作者	Forsyth, H
来源期刊	SETTLER COLONIAL STUDIES
ISSN	2201-473X
EISSN	1838-0743
出版年	2018
卷号	8 期号:4 页码:464-488
英文摘要	Wilcannia is a small town in outback New South Wales. Settled in the mid-nineteenth century, this was a jewel of colonisation known as the 'Queen of the Desert'. On the Darling River, it was the third largest shipping port in NSW. Large, monumental sandstone buildings are littered through the town, many crumbling, for Wilcannia has now been mostly abandoned by settler society. The town's present population of around 600 people are mostly Barkindji. Aboriginal residents of Wilcannia are not thriving by many official measures, but have maintained continuous occupation of their land. Many are conscious that they have survived the 'logic of elimination' characteristic of settler colonialism. We went to Wilcannia to explore the political economics of this survival, especially the ways that Aboriginal people perceived and engaged with settler capitalism. Did capitalism fail in Wilcannia? Or were Aboriginal strategies of engagement and resistance effective? This paper draws on a rich oral history project and archive to offer a complex, Indigenous-centred account of settler capitalism in the region and of the structures that constitute a changing, flexible and distinctly Barkindji logic of survival. This, we argue, cannot be reduced to 'agency', as if Aboriginal responses to settler colonial structures were ad hoc - meaning interpretations of the 'hybridity' of Aboriginal and settler cultures are also not applicable. Rather, we suggest that the logic of survival represents an Indigenous structure with changing, flexible and heterogeneous sets of strategies.
英文关键词	Political economics Australian aboriginal Barkindji logic of elimination Darling River Marxist history history of capitalism Indigenous survival
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	ESCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000445265500004
WOS类目	Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
WOS研究方向	Social Sciences - Other Topics
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/332998
作者单位	[Forsyth, Hannah] Australian Catholic Univ, Fac Educ & Arts, Sydney, NSW, Australia; [Gavranovic, Altin] Univ Sydney, US Studies Ctr, Sydney, NSW, Australia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Forsyth, Hannah,Gavranovic, Altin. The logic of survival: towards an Indigenous-centred history of capitalism in Wilcannia[J],2018,8(4):464-488.
APA	Forsyth, Hannah,&Gavranovic, Altin.(2018).The logic of survival: towards an Indigenous-centred history of capitalism in Wilcannia.SETTLER COLONIAL STUDIES,8(4),464-488.
MLA	Forsyth, Hannah,et al."The logic of survival: towards an Indigenous-centred history of capitalism in Wilcannia".SETTLER COLONIAL STUDIES 8.4(2018):464-488.