Nervous Hybridity: Bodies, Spaces, and the Displacements of Empire

Title: Nervous Hybridity: Bodies, Spaces, and the Displacements of Empire
Description: Book section from Urbanizing frontiers: Indigenous peoples and settlers in 19th-century Pacific Rim cities. This section focuses on Indigenous peoples and settlers in Victoria, British Columbia from 1858 to 1871. Gold rushes and narratives of European progress transformed spaces and bodies.
Creator: Penelope Edmonds
Abstract: Colonial frontiers were not confined to the bush, backwoods, or borderlands. Early towns and cities in the far reaches of empire were crucial to the settler colonial project. The lives of Indigenous peoples in these urbanizing frontiers have been overshadowed by triumphant narratives of European progress.
Is Part Of: Urbanizing frontiers: Indigenous peoples and settlers in 19th-century Pacific Rim cities.; See all items with this value State of the Salish Sea
Publisher: UBC Press
Date: 2010
pages: 206-229