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Gender, Violence and Criminal Justice in the Colonial Pacific - 1880-1920 (Hardcover)
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Gender, Violence and Criminal Justice in the Colonial Pacific - 1880-1920 (Hardcover)
Series: Empire's Other Histories
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Centering on cases of sexual violence, this book illuminates the
contested introduction of British and French colonial criminal
justice in the Pacific Islands during the late 19th and early 20th
centuries, focusing on Fiji, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu/New
Hebrides. It foregrounds the experiences of Indigenous Islanders
and indentured laborers in the colonial court system, a space in
which marginalized voices entered the historical record. Rape and
sexual assault trials reveal how hierarchies of race, gender and
status all shaped the practice of colonial law in the courtroom and
the gendered experiences of colonialism. Trials provided a space
where men and women narrated their own story and at times
challenged the operation of colonial law. Through these cases,
Gender, Violence and Criminal Justice in the Colonial Pacific
highlights the extent to which colonial bureaucracies engaged with
and affected private lives, as well as the varied ways in which
individuals and communities responded to such intrusions and
themselves reshaped legal practices and institutions in the
Pacific. With bureaucratic institutions unable to deal with the
complex realities of colonial lives, Stevens reveals how the
courtroom often became a theatrical space in which authority was
performed, deliberately obscuring the more complex and violent
practices that were central to both colonialism and colonial
law-making. Exploring the intersections of legal pluralism and
local pragmatism across British and French colonialization in the
Pacific, this book shows how island communities and early colonial
administrators adopted diverse and flexible approaches towards
criminal justice, pursuing alternative forms of justice ranging
from unofficial courts to punitive violence in order to deal with
cases of sexual assault.
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