Colonial Formations

Colonial Formations highlights the critical importance of colonial dynamics at the so-called peripheries of the British Empire. With a focus on the Australasian settler colonies, the Pacific, India, and China, it examines colonised peoples’ subjectivities, mobilities and networks, through accounts of labour, law, education and activism.

Decentring the British metropole, while shedding light on its enduring power, contributors chart the vast array of mobilities and connections that shaped the...