(Dis)Placing Empire
Renegotiating British Colonial Geographies

Offers new insights into the practice of Empire.The contributors to this volume offer such a perspective, asserting the inadequacy of conventional 'self/other' binaries in postcolonial analysis which fail to recognise the complex ways in which space and place were implicated in constructing the individual experience of Empire.

While there has been for the past two decades a lively and extensive academic debate about postcolonial representations of imperialism and colonialism, there has been little work which focuses on 'placed' materialist or critical geographical perspectives. The contributors to this volume offer such a perspective, asserting the inadequacy of conventional 'self/other' binaries in postcolonial analysis which fail to recognise the complex ways in which space and place were implicated in constructing the individual experience of Empire. Illustrated with case studies of British colonialism in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Ireland and New Zealand in the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book uncovers the complex and unstable spaces of meaning which were central to the experience of emigrants, settlers, expatriates and indigenous peoples at different time/place moments under British rule. In critically examining place and hybridity within a discursive context, "(Dis)placing Empire" offers new insights into the practice of Empire.

Introduction: Place, network, and the geographies of Empire, Lindsay Proudfoot and Michael Roche. 'Dis-Locations': Colonial spaces and sites of resistance: landed estates in 19th Century Ireland, Paddy Duffy
The unsettled country: landscape, history, and memory in Australia's Wheatlands, Joy McCann
Place and presbyterian discourse in Colonial Australia, Lindsay Proudfoot
Irishness, gender and household space in "An Up-country Township", Di Hall. Performing power, demonstrating resistance: interpreting Queen Victoria's visit to Dublin in 1900, Yvonne Whelan
'Translocations'
Environment-identity convergences in Australia, 1880-1950, J.M. Powell
Empire, Duty and land: soldier settlement in New Zealand 1915-1924, Michael Roche
'Oriental Sore' or 'Public Nuisance': the regulation of prostitution in Colonial India, 1805-1889, M. Satish Kumar
Prostitution and the place of Empire: regulation and repeal in Hong Kong and the British Imperial network, Philip Howell. 'Displacement': Displacement, Lindsay Proudfoot and Michael Roche
Index.