Keeping Hold of Justice: Encounters between Law and Colonialism

Balint, Jennifer; Evans, Julie; McMillan, Nesam; McMillan, Mark

doi:doi:10.3998/mpub.11323120

Jennifer Balint, Julie Evans, Mark McMillan, and Nesam McMillan

2020

Keeping Hold of Justice focuses on a select range of encounters between law and colonialism from the early nineteenth century to the present. It emphasizes the nature of colonialism as a distinctively structural injustice, one which becomes entrenched in the social, political, legal, and discursive structures of societies and thereby continues to affect people's lives in the present. It charts, in particular, the role of law in both enabling and sustaining colonial injustice and in recognizing and redressing it. In so doing, the book seeks to demonstrate the possibilities for structural justice that still exist despite the enduring legacies and harms of colonialism. It puts forward that these possibilities can be found through collaborative methodologies and practices, such as those informing this book, that actively bring together different disciplines, peoples, temporalities, laws and ways of knowing. They reveal law not only as a source of colonial harm but also as a potential means of keeping hold of justice.

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Law, Meaning, and Violence

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978-0-472-12627-9 (ebook)
978-0-472-13168-6 (hardcover)

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This is a picture of an actor in the play ‘Coranderrk: We Will Show the Country.’ The actor is Uncle Jack Charles playing William Barak.

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From Introduction

Figure 1. Uncle Jack Charles playing William Barak and Tom Long playing John Green in Coranderrk: We Will Show the Country, a dramatic reenactment of the testimony at the 1881 Parliamentary Inquiry into the Coranderrk Aboriginal Reserve, Victoria, Australia. From a 2011 performance by the Ilbijerri Theatre Company at La Mama Courthouse Theatre: Isaac Drandic (director), Rachel Maza (dramaturgy), Giordano Nanni and Andrea James (script), with actors Syd Brisbane, Uncle Jack Charles, Jim Daly, Peter Finlay, Greg Fryer, Liz Jones, Tom Long, Melodie Reynolds and Glenn Shea. Photograph: Steven Rhall.

This is a picture of an actor in the play ‘Coranderrk: We Will Show the Country.’ The actor is Melodie Reynolds playing Caroline Morgan.

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From Introduction

Figure 2. Melodie Reynolds plays Caroline Morgan in Coranderrk: We Will Show the Country, a dramatic reenactment of the testimony at the 1881 Parliamentary Inquiry into the Coranderrk Aboriginal Reserve, Victoria, Australia. From a 2011 performance by the Ilbijerri Theatre Company at the La Mama Courthouse Theatre, Carlton, Victoria: Isaac Drandic (director), Rachel Maza (dramaturgy), Giordano Nanni and Andrea James (script), with actors Syd Brisbane, Uncle Jack Charles, Jim Daly, Peter Finlay, Greg Fryer, Liz Jones, Tom Long, Melodie Reynolds, and Glenn Shea. Photograph: Steven Rhall.

This is a picture of multiple actors on stage at the end of the play ‘Coranderrk: We Will Show the Country,’ with Uncle Jack Charles (playing William Barak) reading the petition.

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From Conclusion

Figure 3. Uncle Jack Charles (playing William Barak) reading the petition in Coranderrk: We Will Show the Country, a dramatic reenactment of the testimony at the 1881 Parliamentary Inquiry into the Coranderrk Aboriginal Reserve, Victoria, Australia. A 2011 production by the Ilbijerri Theatre Company at La Mama Courthouse Theatre in Carlton, Victoria: Isaac Drandic (director), Rachel Maza (dramaturgy), Giordano Nanni and Andrea James (script), with actors Syd Brisbane, Uncle Jack Charles, Jim Daly, Peter Finlay, Greg Fryer, Liz Jones, Tom Long, Melodie Reynolds, and Glenn Shea. Photograph: Steven Rhall.

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