Gender, Violence and Criminal Justice in the Colonial Pacific
1880-1920
$60.50
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
25 July 2024
Summary
Centering on cases of sexual violence, this open access 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.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350275553 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1350275557 |
| Author: | Kate Stevens |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 25 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 440g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 158mm x 234mm |
| Series: | Empire’s Other Histories |
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Critics Review
Gender, Violence and Criminal Justice in the Colonial Pacific stands out as an archival powerhouse for criticism and research on gender, violence, colonialism and law in New Caledonia, Fiji and New Hebrides/Vanuatu. It should be essential reading for students and scholars of Pacific history, law, sociology and gender studies. * Gender & History *
Kate Stevens offers an innovative study of the intersections between colonial law and sexual violence in the Pacific between roughly 1880 and 1920. * American Historical Review *
There remains no doubt that Stevens has made a very valuable contribution by placing sex and gender violence at the center of Pacific colonial history. The implicit challenge is to extend this reorientation to other regional and global legal histories. As scholars travel along this path, they will benefit from Stevens’s efforts to mark the way. * Journal of British Studies *
It is unusual to examine different national forms of colonialism alongside one another and comparatively within the same region at the same time. This book does so with great success, showing how magistrates, colonists, missionaries, indentured workers and Pacific Islanders negotiated and conflicted over forms of law and justice. Both the limits and the power of colonial law enforcement are revealed, along with its racialized and gendered nature.
* Alan Lester, Professor of Historical Geography, University of Sussex, UK *This finely-drawn, illuminating study of law-making in the colonial Pacific uncovers how complex cultures of gender, race and colonial violence came together inside and beyond the colonial courtroom, revealing the coercive yet fractured nature of colonial governance and, within it, the strategic responses of colonized subjects.
* Amanda Nettelbeck, Professor, Australian Catholic University, Australia *Kate Stevens’ excellent study, combining analyses of systems of formal justice and ‘rough justice’ with discussions of the lived experiences of the colonised and colonising, provides an original and very perceptive contribution to the history of the South Pacific and to our understanding of crime and punishment in colonial situations. * Robert Aldrich, Professor Emeritus, The University of Sydney, Australia *
Kate Stevens
Kate Stevens is Lecturer of History at University of Waikato, New Zealand. Her research focuses on comparative histories of cultural, environmental and economic exchange in the colonial and postcolonial Pacific. She has published her work in the Journal of Pacific History, Law and History Review and The Contemporary Pacific, and supported by the Marsden Fund and Camargo Foundation.
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