Vagrant Lives in Colonial Australasia

Regulating Mobility, 1840-1910

Catharine Coleborne (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-25269-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Catharine Coleborne is Professor of History at the University of Newcastle, Australia, where she is also the Head of School of Humanities and Social Science. Her research interests include historical understandings of mobility, mental illness, institutions, medicine, law and health in colonial Australia and New Zealand.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgements

1. Approaching the colonial histories of vagrancy: an introduction
2. Vagrancy laws in the colonial world
3. The policing and prosecution of vagrants
4. The everyday lives of vagrants
5. Worlds of vulnerability
6. Adventure, wandering, or predation? Regulating mobility
7. Epilogue: The precarious present

Annotated guide to data and digital sources
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.04.2024
Reihe/Serie	Empire’s Other Histories
Zusatzinfo	10 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-25269-7 / 1350252697
ISBN-13	978-1-350-25269-1 / 9781350252691
Zustand	Neuware