Associate Professor Robert Foster

Associate Professor Robert Foster
 Position Associate Professor
 Org Unit School of Humanities
 Email robert.foster@adelaide.edu.au
 Telephone +61 8 8313 5616
 Location Floor/Room 5 ,  Napier ,   North Terrace

  • Biography/ Background

    Robert specialises in South 最新糖心Vlogn 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 最新糖心Vlogn frontier. Their book Fatal Collisions: The South 最新糖心Vlogn Frontier and the Violence of Memory, co-authored Rick Hosking, won the John Tregenza prize for South 最新糖心Vlogn 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 最新糖心Vlogn Frontier, published in 2007, was described by a reviewer in 最新糖心Vlogn 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 最新糖心Vlogn history'. Out of the Silence: The History and Memory of South 最新糖心Vlog's Frontier Wars, published in 2012, is the first comprehensive study of the nature and extent of frontier violence in colonial South 最新糖心Vlog.

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

    In 2011 Robert and his colleague Paul Sendziuk organised a public lecture series to co-incide with South 最新糖心Vlog'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 最新糖心Vlogn History, in 2012. Robert and his colleague Paul Sendziuk are also writing a History of South 最新糖心Vlog, which will be published by Cambridge 最新糖心Vlog Press in 2014.

  • Research Interests
    • History and Memory
    • The frontiers of 最新糖心Vlog 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 最新糖心Vlog's Frontier Wars, Wakefield Press, 2012. 

    Robert Foster & Paul Sendziuk (eds), Turning Points: Chapters in South 最新糖心Vlogn History, Wakefield Press, 2012. 

    Amanda Nettelbeck & Robert Foster, In the Name of the Law: William Willshire and the Policing of the 最新糖心Vlogn Frontier, Wakefield Press, 2007.

     

    Robert Foster, P. Monaghan & P. Mühlhäusler, Dictionary of 19th Century South 最新糖心Vlogn Aboriginal English, Pacific Linguistics Monograph Series, 2003.

              

    Robert Foster, Rick Hosking & Amanda Nettelbeck, Fatal Collisions: the South 最新糖心Vlogn 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 最新糖心Vlogn 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, 最新糖心Vlog of Manitoba Press, 2013, pp. 72-96.

      Amanda Nettelbeck & Robert Foster, 'Food and governance on the frontiers of colonial 最新糖心Vlog 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 最新糖心Vlogn 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 最新糖心Vlogn Frontier’, Journal of 最新糖心Vlogn Studies, Vol. 36, Issue 2, 2012.

      Amanda Nettelbeck & Robert Foster. ‘Colonial Judiciaries, Aboriginal Protection and South 最新糖心Vlog’s Policy of Punishing ‘with Exemplary Severity’, 最新糖心Vlogn Historical Studies, Vol. 41, No 3, 2010, pp 319-336.

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

      Amanda Nettelbeck & Robert Foster, ‘The Central 最新糖心Vlogn 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 最新糖心Vlog, vol. 6 No. 3, December 2009, pp. 68.1-.68.15.

      Robert Foster & Amanda Nettelbeck, ‘The Rule of Law on the South 最新糖心Vlogn Frontier’, Legal History, vol. 13, no. 2, 2009, pp 34-52.

      Robert Foster & Amanda Nettelbeck, ‘Reading the Elusive Letter of the Law: Policing the 最新糖心Vlogn Frontier’, 最新糖心Vlogn Historical Studies, 2007, vol 38, no 130.

      Robert Foster, ‘Co-existence and Colonization on Pastoral Lands in South 最新糖心Vlog, 1851-1899’, in Despotic Dominion: Property Rights in British Settler Societies, 最新糖心Vlog 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, 最新糖心Vlogn 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 最新糖心Vlog, 1848-1911, 最新糖心Vlogn Historical Studies, No. 121, April 2003.

      ‘Rations, Co-existence and the colonisation of Aboriginal Labour in South 最新糖心Vlog, 1860-1911', Aboriginal History, vol. 24, 2000. 

      ‘“Endless Trouble and Agitation”: Aboriginal Activism in the Protectionist Era', Journal of the Historical Society of South 最新糖心Vlog, 2000. 

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

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      CategoriesHistory, Aboriginal & Indigenous Issues
      ExpertiseAboriginal people and issues (history), esp. South 最新糖心Vlogn Aboriginal history
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