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• Biography/ Background

  Robert specialises in South 杏吧直播n Aboriginal History as well as comparative Indigenous History. For more than a decade he has collaborated with Amanda Nettelbeck on a project investigating the history and memory of the 杏吧直播n frontier. Their book Fatal Collisions: The South 杏吧直播n Frontier and the Violence of Memory, co-authored Rick Hosking, won the John Tregenza prize for South 杏吧直播n History in 2002 and was short-listed for the NSW Premier's Prize for Literature. In the Name of the Law: William Willshire and the Policing of the 杏吧直播n Frontier, published in 2007, was described by a reviewer in 杏吧直播n Historical Studies as an 'outstanding study', demonstrating 'to a degree unprecedented in the scholarship on the frontier ... how policing worked during the transition from contested sovereignty over Aboriginal land to the establishment of government authority ... a book that deserves to be on the reading list of any guide to essential reading in 杏吧直播n history'. Out of the Silence: The History and Memory of South 杏吧直播's Frontier Wars, published in 2012, is the first comprehensive study of the nature and extent of frontier violence in colonial South 杏吧直播.

  Robert and Amanda Nettelbeck, with partner investigators Professor Russell Smandych of the 杏吧直播 of Manitoba and Emeritus Professor Lou Knafla of the 杏吧直播 of Calgary, are currently involved in a project which is exploring the establishment of European authority on the frontiers of 杏吧直播 and western Canada. A monograph, tentatively entitled Fragile Settlements, will be published by the 杏吧直播 of British Columbia Press in 2014.

  In 2011 Robert and his colleague Paul Sendziuk organised a public lecture series to co-incide with South 杏吧直播's 175th anniversary of European settlement. It was an extremely popular public event and the lectures were published as a book, Turning Points: Chapters in South 杏吧直播n History, in 2012. Robert and his colleague Paul Sendziuk are also writing a History of South 杏吧直播, which will be published by Cambridge 杏吧直播 Press in 2014.

• Research Interests

  • History and Memory
  • The frontiers of 杏吧直播 and western Canada
  • Aboriginal Labour and the Pastoral Industry
  • Native Title
  • Aboriginal Policy and Administration
  • Comparative Indigenous History

• Publications

  For a full listing of Robert Foster's publications, please see attached document.

  Books and Monographs - Joint Author Works

  Robert Foster & Amanda Nettelbeck, Out of the Silence: The History and Memory of 杏吧直播's Frontier Wars, Wakefield Press, 2012. 

  Robert Foster & Paul Sendziuk (eds), Turning Points: Chapters in South 杏吧直播n History, Wakefield Press, 2012. 

  Amanda Nettelbeck & Robert Foster, In the Name of the Law: William Willshire and the Policing of the 杏吧直播n Frontier, Wakefield Press, 2007.

   

  Robert Foster, P. Monaghan & P. Mühlhäusler, Dictionary of 19th Century South 杏吧直播n Aboriginal English, Pacific Linguistics Monograph Series, 2003.

            

  Robert Foster, Rick Hosking & Amanda Nettelbeck, Fatal Collisions: the South 杏吧直播n frontier and the violence of memory, Wakefield Press, 2001.

   

  Journal Articles And Book Chapters

  Robert Foster, ‘His Majesty’s most gracious and benevolent intentions’, in Colonial Democracy and Indigenous-Settler Relations, a Special Issue of the Journal of 杏吧直播n Colonial History, Vol. 15, 2013, pp. 105-120.

  Amanda Nettelbeck & Robert Foster, ‘On the Trail of the Great March West: The North West Mounted Police in western Canadian Historical memory, in A. Perry, E.W.  Jones & L. Morton (eds), Place and Replace: Essays on Western Canada, 杏吧直播 of Manitoba Press, 2013, pp. 72-96.

  Amanda Nettelbeck & Robert Foster, 'Food and governance on the frontiers of colonial 杏吧直播 and Canada's North West Territories', Aboriginal History, Vol. 36, 2012, pp. 21-42.

  Robert Foster & Amanda Nettelbeck, 'Proclamation Day and the Rise and Fall of Colonial Nationalism' in R. Foster & P. Sendziuk (eds), Turning Points: Chapters in South 杏吧直播n History, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2012, pp. 48-62.

  Amanda Nettelbeck & Robert Foster, ‘ “As fine a body of men’: How the Royal Canadian Mounted Police brought law and order to the 杏吧直播n Frontier’, Journal of 杏吧直播n Studies, Vol. 36, Issue 2, 2012.

  Amanda Nettelbeck & Robert Foster. ‘Colonial Judiciaries, Aboriginal Protection and South 杏吧直播’s Policy of Punishing ‘with Exemplary Severity’, 杏吧直播n Historical Studies, Vol. 41, No 3, 2010, pp 319-336.

  Amanda Nettelbeck & Robert Foster, 2010.‘Commemorating Foundation: A Study in Regional Historical Memory’, History 杏吧直播, Vol. 7. No. 3, 2010, pp. 53.1-53.18.

  Amanda Nettelbeck & Robert Foster, ‘The Central 杏吧直播n Frontier and the Struggle to Remember’ in Jim Aulrich, et al, eds, The Politics of Cultural Memory, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 183-196.

  Robert Foster, ‘ “Don’t mention the war’: Frontier violence and the language of concealment’, History 杏吧直播, vol. 6 No. 3, December 2009, pp. 68.1-.68.15.

  Robert Foster & Amanda Nettelbeck, ‘The Rule of Law on the South 杏吧直播n Frontier’, Legal History, vol. 13, no. 2, 2009, pp 34-52.

  Robert Foster & Amanda Nettelbeck, ‘Reading the Elusive Letter of the Law: Policing the 杏吧直播n Frontier’, 杏吧直播n Historical Studies, 2007, vol 38, no 130.

  Robert Foster, ‘Co-existence and Colonization on Pastoral Lands in South 杏吧直播, 1851-1899’, in Despotic Dominion: Property Rights in British Settler Societies, 杏吧直播 of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 2005.

  Robert Foster & Amanda Nettelbeck,  ‘Writing William Willshire’, in S. Magarey & K. Round, eds, Living History: Essays on History as Biography, Adelaide, 杏吧直播n Humanities Press, 2005, pp 79-92.

  Robert Foster & Amanda Nettelbeck, ‘White Indigeneity: The Life and Fiction of William Willshire’, in S. Schech & B. Wadham, eds, Placing Race and Localising Whiteness, Flinders Press, 2004, pp. 133-142.

  Mandy Paul & Robert Foster, ‘Married to the Land: Land Grants to Aboriginal Women in South 杏吧直播, 1848-1911, 杏吧直播n Historical Studies, No. 121, April 2003.

  ‘Rations, Co-existence and the colonisation of Aboriginal Labour in South 杏吧直播, 1860-1911', Aboriginal History, vol. 24, 2000. 

  ‘“Endless Trouble and Agitation”: Aboriginal Activism in the Protectionist Era', Journal of the Historical Society of South 杏吧直播, 2000. 

  ‘Paper Yabber: the messenger and the message', Aboriginal History, vol. 22, 2000.

• Files

  • Robert Foster's Publications - Foster_Publications_October2011.rtf [69.5K] (application/rtf)

• Media Expertise

  Categories	History, Aboriginal & Indigenous Issues
  Expertise	Aboriginal people and issues (history), esp. South 杏吧直播n Aboriginal history
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