Regulating 'Mobility' and Masculinity through Institutions in Colonial Victoria, 1870s-1890s

Authors

Catharine Coleborne

Abstract

David Rollison shows us that ‘mobility’ and ‘settlement’ operated in a dynamic and dialectical relationship in the past. Mobility, he argues, was a force for social change. Social institutions in early modern England, such as families, the Law, and the Church, were not immobile in the face of new populations. Travellers, sojourners, internal migrants and strangers moved through ‘settled’ spaces and featured in everyday life. ‘Thus movement,’ Rollison shows, ‘was literally the necessary condition of the abiding, settled, “structure”’ (Rollison 1999: 10).

Recommended Citation

Coleborne, Catharine, Regulating 'Mobility' and Masculinity through Institutions in Colonial Victoria, 1870s-1890s, Law Text Culture, 15, 2011, 45-71.
Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/ltc/vol15/iss1/4