Investigating the history of vagrants in colonial Australia and New
Zealand, this book provides insights into the histories and
identities of marginalised peoples in the British Pacific Empire.
Showing how their experiences were produced, shaped and transformed
through laws and institutions, it reveals how the most vulnerable
people in colonial society were regulated, marginalised and
criminalised in the imperial world. Studying the language of
vagrancy prosecution, narratives of mobility and welfare, vagrant
families, gender and mobility and the political, social and
cultural interpretations of vagrancy, this book sets out a
conceptual framework of mobility as a field of inquiry for legal
and historical studies. Defining ‘mobility’ as population
movement and the occupation of new social and physical space, it
offers an entry point to the related histories of penal colonies
and new ‘settler’ societies. It provides insights into shared
histories of vagrancy across New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania
and New Zealand, and explores how different jurisdictions regulated
mobility within the temporal and geographical space of the British
Pacific Empire.
General
Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Academic
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Empire’s Other Histories |
Release date: |
May 2024 |
Authors: |
Catharine Coleborne
|
Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
256 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-350-25269-1 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-350-25269-7 |
Barcode: |
9781350252691 |
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