Dr Ben Silverstein

Research output

Research output per year 2007 2018 2020 2022 2025

• 15 Article
• 10 Chapter
• 3 Editorial
• 3 Literature review
• 7 More
  • 3 Review article
  • 1 Edited Book
  • 1 Book
  • 1 Letter
  • 1 General Article

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2025

  Editorial: Indigeneity and infrastructures of settler colonialism

  McManus, P., Silverstein, B., Blatman, N., Barker, L. L. & Webb, A., May 2025, In: Geographical Research. 63, 2, p. 214-220 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review

• We are all connected to each other: deep history and relationship in Yawuru Country

  Edgar, J. A. & Silverstein, B., 10 Mar 2025, In: History Australia. 22, 1, p. 42-61 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Engagement 100%
  • Articulation 100%
  • Ceremony 100%
  • Expression 100%
  • Estrangement 100%

• ‘We open our eyes despite the pain it causes’: a role for historians in these genocidal times

  Simic, Z., Silverstein, J. & Silverstein, B., 19 May 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: History Australia. 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Israel 100%
  • Nakba 100%
  • Journalist 50%
• 2024

  Rail relations: Aboriginal storywork and remaking Australia’s settler-colonial infrastructure

  Blatman, N., Taksa, L., Silverstein, B., McManus, P., Barker, L. & Webb, A., 14 Oct 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Geographical Research. 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Aboriginal 100%
  • Settler 100%
  • New South Wales 100%
  • Railway 100%
  • Geography 50%
  1 Citation (Scopus)
• 2023

  Beyond presentism: Memory studies, deep history and the challenges of transmission

  Kennedy, R. & Silverstein, B., 2023, In: Memory Studies. 16, 6, p. 1609-1627 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Memory studies 100%
  • Presentism 100%
  • Mnemonics 100%
  • Indigenous Community 33%
  • Urban 33%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Marking Country: Mapping Deep Histories

  Jones, M., McGrath, A., Silverstein, B., Way, A. & Ekkel, R., 30 Nov 2023, In: ANU Historical Journal II. 4, p. 161-178

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2022

  Deep Historicities

  Rademaker, L. & Silverstein, B., 2022, In: Interventions. 24, 2, p. 137-160 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Historicity 100%
  • Academic Discipline 100%
  • First Nations 25%
  • Narration 25%
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Review Forum: Mark McKenna’s Return to Uluru

  Nugent, M., Silverstein, B., Spiers Williams, M. & McKenna, M., 2022, In: Journal of Australian Studies. 46, 3, p. 370-385 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

• Review Forum: Mark McKenna's <i>Return to Uluru</i> On Other Foundations: Reflections on Mark McKenna's Histories

  Nugent, M., Silverstein, B., Spiers Williams, M. & McKenna, M., 3 Jul 2022, In: Journal of Australian Studies. 46, 3, p. 370-376 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

• Theoretical Frontiers

  Silverstein, B., 2022, The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Global History. Oxford: Routledge, Vol. 1. p. 56-85

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
  5 Citations (Scopus)

• ‘Throwing Mud’ on Questions of Sovereignty: Race and Northern Arguments over White, Chinese, and Aboriginal Labour, 1905–12

  Silverstein, B., 2022, In: Australian Historical Studies. 53, 4, p. 564-583 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Aboriginal 100%
  • Settler 100%
  • Aboriginal People 66%
  • Northern Territory 66%
  • Criticism 33%
  1 Citation (Scopus)
• 2021

  Deep history and deep listening: Indigenous knowledges and the narration of deep pasts

  McGrath, A., Rademaker, L. & Silverstein, B., 2021, In: Rethinking History. 25, 3, p. 307-326 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  11 Citations (Scopus)

• Preface

  Silverstein, B. & McKinnon, C., 2021, In: Aboriginal History Journal. 45, p. vii-x

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

• Preface

  Silverstein, B. & McKinnon, C., 2021, In: Aboriginal History Journal. 45, p. vii-x

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• 2020

  Governing Natives: Indirect Rule and Settler Colonialism in Australia’s North, by Ben Silverstein. Conversation between Jessica Urwin and Ben Silverstein

  Urwin, J. & Silverstein, B., 2020, In: ANU Historical Journal II. 2, p. 233-241

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review

• In Apartheid's Shadow: Australian Race Politics and South Africa, 1945-1975

  Silverstein, B., 2020, In: Australian Historical Studies. 51, 2, p. 242-243

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• Preface

  Silverstein, B., 2020, In: Aboriginal History. 44

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• Preface

  Silverstein, B. & McKinnon, C., 2020, In: Aboriginal History Journal. 44, p. IX-XIV

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial

• Reading sovereignties in the shadow of settler colonialism: Chinese employment of Aboriginal labour in the Northern Territory of Australia

  Silverstein, B., 2 Jan 2020, In: Postcolonial Studies. 23, 1, p. 43-57 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Aboriginal 100%
  • Settler 100%
  • Northern Territory 100%
  • Settler Colonialism 100%
  • Indigenous Peoples 16%
  5 Citations (Scopus)

• Thinking with and beyond settler colonial studies: new histories after the postcolonial

  Carey, J. & Silverstein, B., 2 Jan 2020, Postcolonial Studies, 23, 1, p. 1-20 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › General Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Post-colonial 100%
  • Settler 100%
  • Review 33%
  44 Citations (Scopus)
• 2018

  Conflict, Adaptation, Transformation: Richard Broome and the Practice of Aboriginal History

  Silverstein, B., 2018, 1st ed. Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press. 242 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Edited Book › peer-review

• Governing Natives: Indirect rule and settler colonialism in Australia's north

  Silverstein, B., 2018, 2018 ed. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 232 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

  • Territory 100%
  • Settler Colonialism 100%
  • Sovereignty 50%
  • Colonial Government 50%
  • Form of Government 50%

• Indigenous and Other Australians since 1901

  Silverstein, B., 2018, In: Aboriginal History. 42, p. 215-217

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review

• Rethinking paternalism: From nineteenth century Aboriginal missions to contemporary neoliberal policy

  Silverstein, B. & McLisky, C., 2018, Conflict, Adaptation, Transformation: Richard Broome and the Practice of Aboriginal History. B. S. (ed.). 1st ed. Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press, Vol. 1. p. 38-62

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Contemporary 100%
  • Aboriginal 100%
  • Nineteenth Century 100%
  • Indigenous Peoples 100%
  • Diseases 100%

• Stephen Gapps, The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the early colony 17881817

  Silverstein, B., 2018, In: The Sydney Wars. p. 1pp-3pp

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review

• The "Proper Settler" and the "Native Mind": Flogging Scandals in the Northern Territory, 1919 and 1932

  Silverstein, B., 2018, Intimacies of Violence in the Settler Colony. P. E. A. A. N. (ed.). 1st edition ed. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, Vol. 1. p. 89-114

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Voyaging with hope: Richard Broome and the ethics of Aboriginal history

  Silverstein, B., 2018, Conflict, Adaptation, Transformation: Richard Broome and the Practice of Aboriginal History. B. S. (ed.). 1st ed. Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press, Vol. 1. p. 1-17pp

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• 2017

  ‘Possibly they did not know themselves’: the ambivalent government of sex and work in the Northern Territory Aboriginals Ordinance 1918

  Silverstein, B., 3 Jul 2017, In: History Australia. 14, 3, p. 344-360 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Indigenous Peoples 100%
  • Territory 100%
  • Biopolitics 100%
  • Diseases 50%
  • Family 50%
• 2016

  Ideology

  Silverstein, B. & Wolfe, P., 1 Jan 2016, The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Imperial Histories. Taylor and Francis Ltd., p. 471-488 18 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Karl Marx 100%
  • Social Group 100%
  • Ideologies 100%
  • Social Class 66%
  • Ruling Class 66%

• Patrick Wolfe (19492016)

  Silverstein, B., 2016, In: History Workshop Journal. 82, 1, p. 315-232pp

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• 2015

  A Politics of the Third Generation

  Silverstein, B. & Silverstein, J., 2015, In the Shadows of Memory. E. J. J. S. D. S. (ed.). 1st ed. London: Vallentine Mitchell Publishers, Vol. 1. p. 231-244

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• 2013

  Submerged sovereignty: Native title within a history of incorporation

  Silverstein, B., 1 Jan 2013, Sovereignty: Frontiers of Possibility. University of Hawaii Press, p. 60-85 26 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  4 Citations (Scopus)

• Submerged Sovereignty: Native Title within a History of Incorporation in Sovereignty Frontiers of Possibility

  Silverstein, B., 2013, Sovereignty: Frontiers of Possibility. J. E. A. G. A. R. P. W. (ed.). 1st edition ed. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, Vol. 1. p. 60-85

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Indigenous Peoples 100%
  • Indigenous Community 100%
  • Truth 100%
  • Frontier 100%
  • India 50%
• 2012

  Ideology

  Silverstein, B. & Wolfe, P., 2012, The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Imperial Histories. Levine, P. & Marriott, J. (eds.). New York: Ashgate Publishing Company , p. 471-489 18 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Karl Marx 100%
  • Social Group 100%
  • Social Class 100%
  • Ruling Class 100%
  • thinkers 50%
  5 Citations (Scopus)
• 2011

  From Population to Citizen: The Subjects of the 1939 Aboriginal New Deal in Australia's Northern Territory

  Silverstein, B., 2011, In: Kontur: Culture, History, Politics. 22, p. 17-33

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  • Subjectivation 100%

• Indirect rule in Australia: A case study in settler colonial difference

  Silverstein, B., 28 Apr 2011, Studies in Settler Colonialism: Politics, Identity and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, p. 90-105 16 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
  3 Citations (Scopus)
• 2009

  The Local in the Global: The Value in Transnational History

  Silverstein, B., Sept 2009, In: Ex Plus Ultra. 1, p. 96-98

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  Open Access

  • Social Relationships 100%
  • Interdependence 100%
  • Imperialism 100%
  • International Economic Relations 100%
  • Participatory Development 100%
• 2007

  The Rule of Native Title: A View of Mabo in the British Empire

  Silverstein, B., 2007, In: Griffith Law Review. 16, 1, p. 55-82

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Australia 100%
  • Law 50%
  • Courts 25%
  • Twentieth Century 25%
  • Land Tenure 25%