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Protector of aborigines or war criminal: Two opposing liberal views of James Brooke
No full textThis chapter utilizes the two views of James Brooke to demonstrate the different elements of nineteenth century liberal ideology and the internal debate within it over the use of military force to achieve the liberal goal of civilisational development. Chamerovzow clearly outlined in the argument that Brooke was a war criminal. Brooke described himself politically as a liberal, but not a radical, and dedicated his regime in Sarawak to the advancement of civilisation, free trade, and the protection of Aborigines by ending piracy and establishing a government in their interest. James Brooke invoked imperial humanitarianism to gain support for his regime in Sarawak. As Rajah of Sarawak, Brooke went about reforming what he argued was a degraded state. When the commission concluded, it failed to give an answer that satisfied either the liberal critics of Brooke or even Brooke's supporters. Hume's and Cobden's lobbying finally paid off and they got their commission of inquiry
Liberalism and the British Empire in Southeast Asia
No full textThis collection of essays collects the leading scholars on British colonial thought in Southeast Asia to consider the question: what was the relationship between liberalism and the British Empire in Southeast Asia? The empire builders in Southeast Asia: Lord Minto, William Farquhar, John Leyden, Thomas Stamford Raffles, and John Crawfurd - to name a few - were fervent believers in a liberal free trade order in Southeast Asia.
Many recent studies of British imperialism, and European imperialism more generally, have addressed how the anti-imperialist tradition of Eighteenth century liberalism was increasingly intertwined with the discourses of empire, freedom, race and economics in the nineteenth century. This collection extends those studies to look at the impact of liberalism on. British colonialism in Southeast Asia and early nineteenth century Southeast Asia we see some of the first attempts at developing multicultural democracies within the colonies, experiments in free trade and attempts to use free trade to prevent war and colonisation
The liberal security experiment in Southeast Asia
No full textThe aggressive colonisation of the Malay Peninsula which occurred in the late nineteenth century has long been the main focus of study for students of British imperialism in Southeast Asia. During the 53 years from the founding of Singapore in 1819 to the British exerting direct control over the native states in the Malay Peninsula in 1872, British involvement in Southeast Asia represented a liberal security experiment. Published in 1878, Peter Benson Maxwell's 124-page pamphlet, Our Malay Conquests was the first attempt at writing a history of the British occupation of the Malay Peninsula 1868-1876. British colonial policy in Southeast Asia was an early attempt to demonstrate the success of liberal ideas of security, whereby support for trade would prevent war and colonial conquest. In 1873, the author also spoke against Dutch colonial aggression towards the state of Aceh and presented a view of international relations in Southeast Asia that emphasised individual rights to trade and open relations between states
Book review: Southeast Asia in Ruins: Art and Empire in the Early 19th Century
No full text2016 was the 200th anniversary of the British returning Java to the Dutch after the Napoleonic Wars. It also saw the first major scholarly publications on early nineteenth century British colonialism in Southeast Asia since the 1990s: Farish Noors’ The Discursive Construction of Southeast Asia in 19th-Century Colonial- Capitalist Discourse, Gareth Knapman’s Race and British Colonialism in Southeast Asia, and the subject of this review, Sarah Tiffin’s lavishly presented Southeast Asia in Ruins
Indigenous Australia in the Anthropocene
No full textPolice played an important role in the collecting of Aboriginal objects for colonial and imperial museums. Although ostensibly in a policing role, after 1835 the colonial police acted as a paramilitary force in frontier colonies, enabling colonisation. Although most scholars have noted the unequal power relationship that occurred when police ‘collected’ Aboriginal objects on the frontier, scholarship has not previously explored the ‘authority’ of the police to collect objects. Recent research by Knapman and Boonstra has demonstrated that colonial plunder, far from being an unregulated activity – as previous scholarship has assumed – was actually highly regulated by Western law, although rarely enforced. This article examines three police collections to investigate the formal powers that police had to abide by in order to collect objects at the time. The article examines the collecting activities of three colonial police constables: Harry Ord (who sent Aboriginal cultural material to the British Museum), Ernest Cowle (whose collections are in the South Australian Museum and Museum Victoria) and William Willshire (whose large collection has disappeared but some objects were purchased at an auction by the South Australian Museum in the 1990s). The article argues that in best case scenarios, police collecting may have represented an unequal exchange, but more than likely police collecting was illegal under Western law and can be better described as illegal plunder. The taking of Aboriginal objects was theft under Western law and unsupported by any colonial legal regimes
The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
Mock-up example of Cliniface 3D facial ‘Hereditary Angioedema treatment and monitoring report’ Parental consent was obtained from the parent (Gareth Baynam) of the child whose image is appearing in Fig 3 who is also the corresponding author.
No full textMock-up example of Cliniface 3D facial ‘Hereditary Angioedema treatment and monitoring report’ Parental consent was obtained from the parent (Gareth Baynam) of the child whose image is appearing in Fig 3 who is also the corresponding author.</p
Through the Lens of Color: An Interview with Gareth Doherty, Author of Paradoxes of Green: Landscapes of a City-State
No full textThis interview by Mark Tirpak with Gareth Doherty of Harvard University Graduate School of Design, focuses on his Paradoxes of Green: Landscapes of a City-State (University of California Press, 2017). With Paradoxes of Green (2017) and via the interview, Doherty recounts some of the findings of his ethnographic fieldwork in the Kingdom of Bahrain and describes tensions arising from differing conceptions of what ‘green’ means or signifies within this growing and predominantly arid region. An argument that Doherty makes in Paradoxes of Green (2017) is that color and form are interlinked, and that color deserves deeper consideration by policy-makers and other formal shapers of cities. The interview draws from Paradoxes of Green (2017) to discuss some of Doherty’s findings as well as his latest work on the intersections between landscape architecture and anthropology
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Through the Lens of Color: An Interview with Gareth Doherty, Author of Paradoxes of Green: Landscapes of a City-State
No full textThis interview by Mark Tirpak with Gareth Doherty of Harvard University Graduate School of Design, focuses on his Paradoxes of Green: Landscapes of a City-State (University of California Press, 2017). With Paradoxes of Green (2017) and via the interview, Doherty recounts some of the findings of his ethnographic fieldwork in the Kingdom of Bahrain and describes tensions arising from differing conceptions of what ‘green’ means or signifies within this growing and predominantly arid region. An argument that Doherty makes in Paradoxes of Green (2017) is that color and form are interlinked, and that color deserves deeper consideration by policy-makers and other formal shapers of cities. The interview draws from Paradoxes of Green (2017) to discuss some of Doherty’s findings as well as his latest work on the intersections between landscape architecture and anthropology.Version of Recor
'Let Them Rest in Peace': Exploring interconnections between repatriation from museum and battlefield contexts
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