Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity

Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity
Author/editor: Professor Desley Deacon
Publisher: ANU E-Press
Year published: 2007
School/Centre: School of History

Abstract

 A large body of scholarship has suggested that the production and circulation of knowledge was fundamental to British Empire building. Rather than exploring colonial knowledge as a body of texts or through the lens of representation, this lecture will examine the practices, structures, and processes that shaped knowledge in southern New Zealand in the nineteenth century. In particular it will explore how various forms of communication molded the dynamics of community building at the most distant edge of empire as well as determining the pattern of relationships between local Maori communites and recently arrived Euro-American colonistsl. it will also consider how shifting patterns of cross-cultural communication shaped debates over race, land, and the place of Maori in colonial politics. This discussion will open out into a broader consideration of the place of knowledge and communication in a range of colonial sites and historiographies .

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