Unsettling Artifacts: Biopolitics, Cultural Memory, and the Public Sphere in a (Post)Settler Colony

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dc.contributor.advisorWolfe, Caryen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberJoseph, Bettyen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberFaubion, James D.en_US
dc.creatorGriffiths, Michaelen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-06-05T14:56:25Zen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-06-05T14:56:28Zen_US
dc.date.available2013-06-05T14:56:25Zen_US
dc.date.available2013-06-05T14:56:28Zen_US
dc.date.created2012-12en_US
dc.date.issued2013-06-05en_US
dc.date.submittedDecember 2012en_US
dc.date.updated2013-06-05T14:56:28Zen_US
dc.description.abstractMy dissertation employed intellectual historian Michel Foucault’s notion of biopolitics—which can be most broadly parsed as the political organization of life—to examine the way the lives of Aboriginal people were regulated and surveilled in relation to settler European norms. The study is a focused investigation into a topic with global ramifications: the governance of race and sexuality and the effect of such governance on the production of apparently inclusive cultural productions within the public spheres. I argue that the way in which subaltern peoples have been governed in the past and the way their cultures have been appropriated continue to be in the present is not extraneous to but rather formative of what is often misleadingly called “the” public sphere of dominant societies. In the second part, I analyze the legacies of this biopolitical moment and emphasize, particularly, the cultural politics of affect and trauma in relation to this (not quite) past. Authors addressed include: Xavier Herbert, P. R. Stephensen, Rex Ingamells, Kim Scott, Alexis Wright, and others. I also examine Australian Aboriginal policy texts througout the twentieth century up to the "Bringing Them Home" Report (1997).en_US
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dc.identifier.citationGriffiths, Michael. "Unsettling Artifacts: Biopolitics, Cultural Memory, and the Public Sphere in a (Post)Settler Colony." (2013) Diss., Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/71283">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/71283</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.slug123456789/ETD-2012-12-223en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/71283en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.en_US
dc.subjectAboriginal studiesen_US
dc.subjectAustraliaen_US
dc.subjectCultural memoryen_US
dc.subjectIndigenousen_US
dc.subjectPublic sphereen_US
dc.subjectColonialismen_US
dc.subjectPostcolonialismen_US
dc.subjectLiberalismen_US
dc.titleUnsettling Artifacts: Biopolitics, Cultural Memory, and the Public Sphere in a (Post)Settler Colonyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.materialTexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentEnglishen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineHumanitiesen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophyen_US
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