Through analysis of curricular materials (syllabus documents and supplementary readers)
from the late-nineteenth century to the present, this article explores the role of school …

The violent imposition of colonial borders, accompanied by the subjugation and attempted
erasure of the borders of First Nations Peoples, are core technologies of colonization. In this …

The importation of wire-fencing to Australia from the 1840s transformed the management of
sheep. Rather than shepherds watching over flocks, wire-fences allowed sheep to roam …

Opening up the past to the present involves choices of method and form in the production of
historical knowledge which are moral and political ones. Different ways of arriving at the past …

How do academics know what justice means? You need to ask. And sometimes, you need
to experience injustice. This is probably my main takeaway from a few decades of …

I sit writing this from Lewes, a town that nestles by the chalky edge of the Downs in
Southeast England. I have come here to spend some sabbatical leave at the University of …

How are claims to justice formulated, invoked and confronted in relation to reports of mass
human suffering? What notions of justice inform the scope and nature of official inquiries into …