Colonial Formations

Jane Carey teaches and researches across settler colonial, women’s and Indigenous histories at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She is the editor of Re-Orienting Whiteness (2009), Creating White Australia (2009), and Indigenous Networks: Mobility, Connections and Exchange (2014).Frances Steel teaches and researches Pacific and colonial history at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She is the author of Oceania Under Steam: Sea Transport and the Cultures of Colonialism, c. 1870–1914 (2011) and editor of New Zealand and the Sea: Historical Perspectives (2018).

• Introduction: on the critical importance of colonial formationsJane Carey and Frances Steel1. The New South Wales Bar and Aboriginal people: making Aboriginal subjects c. 1830–1866Paula Jane Byrne2. ‘A walk for our race’: colonial modernity, Indigenous mobility and the origins of the Young Māori PartyJane Carey3. Potter v. Minahan: Chinese Australians, the law and belonging in White AustraliaKate Bagnall4. The ‘Chinese’ always belongedPeter Prince5. ‘I am a British subject’: Indians in Australia claiming their rights, 1880–1940 Margaret Allen6. Servant mobilities between Fiji and New Zealand: the transcolonial politics of domestic work and immigration restriction, c.1870–1920 Frances Steel7. Anticolonialism and the politics of friendship in New Zealand’s PacificNicholas Hoare8. The politics of friendship and cosmopolitan thought zones at the end of empire: Indian women’s study tours to Europe 1934–38Jane Haggis