Title & Author:

Dwelling on the margins of empire : colonized and indigenous peoples' imaginaries of home / edited by Lisa Binkley.

Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.
©2026

Description:

xv, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Finding Home at the Margins of Colonial Encounter / Lisa Binkley -- Fur Trade Forts and Military Camps: The Askin Daughters Creating Home in the British Empire / Cecilia Morgan -- Along the Water's Edge: Mobilizing Home and Unhome in the Pays d'en Haut / Lisa Binkley -- Denying Home: Canadian Exceptionalism and Indigenous Relocation / Judith Meyrick -- 'As Good as Any Place at Home': Eating American in Colonial Manila, 1898-1913 / Alana Toulin -- Lady Mendl and the 'Maharanee' Go to the Ball: Global Fantasies of Empire in the Domestic Interior / Sara Shields-Rivard -- The Dwelling Spaces of Mary Pratt / Anne Koval -- Healing at Home in Colonial Nova Scotia: The Medicinal Remedies of Sarah Creighton Wilkins, 1811-1833 / Holly Dickinson -- Rain is the Ancestors' Tears of Joy: 'Home' Through the Lens of Aboriginal Exemption / Judi Wickes and Katherine Ellinghaus -- Remaking the Town in Colonial Southeastern Nigeria: Town Unions in the Changing Social Landscapes of Early 20th Century Igboland / Chioma Abuba -- Rangatiratanga: Reimagining the Notion of Home for Maori Single Mothers / Shelley Hoani -- Working the Land: Resistance, Reclamation, and Regenerative Farming / SJ Jones -- Letters From Home: A Mi'kmaw Scholar on Indigenous Identity Verification in Academia / Margaret Robinson

Summary:

In focusing their attention on Indigenous perspectives on home in the face of - and despite - colonial dislocations, both cultural and territorial, several contributors expose home's function as a site of cultural vitality and political resistance, as well as colonial violence, across a range of geographical contexts. In addition to highlighting previously marginalised, non-western perspectives on home, this collection explores the operation of domestic politics within nominally undomesticated spaces, as well as within seemingly "unhomely" historical experiences - such as political activism, intergenerational trauma, and geographical exploration. In so doing, it invites critical re-evaluations of home as a category of analysis within imperial, settler colonial, and Indigenous histories on a variety of fronts. Chapters are organised around three key themes, previously positioned in opposition to normative understandings of home, that contributors have reimagined as intrinsic to material and imagined geographies of home: travel and mobility; politics and public life; and colonial violence.

ISBN:

9781350386044 hardcover
1350386049 hardcover
electronic book
9781350386068
9781350386075

Subject:

Colonies History 19th century.
Colonies History 20th century.
Communities History 19th century.
Communities History 20th century.
Home History 19th century.
Home History 20th century.
Indigenous peoples History 19th century.
Indigenous peoples History 20th century.
Marginality, Social History 19th century.
Marginality, Social History 20th century.
Colonies Histoire 19e siècle.
Colonies Histoire 20e siècle.
Communauté Histoire 19e siècle.
Communauté Histoire 20e siècle.
Foyer Histoire 19e siècle.
Foyer Histoire 20e siècle.
Marginalité Histoire 19e siècle.
Marginalité Histoire 20e siècle.
Colonies History.
Communities History.
Home History.
Indigenous peoples History.
Marginality, Social History.

Added entries:

Binkley, Lisa, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room new acquisitions 325373
Call No.: 325373
Copy: 1
Status: Available