Questioning Indigenous-Settler Relations
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Editors: Maddison, Sarah, Nakata, Sana (Eds.)
Free Preview- Defines a new field of research in Indigenous–Settler relationsIncludes original interdisciplinary perspectives on the questions that are central to Indigenous–Settler relationsPresents new frameworks for analyzing relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples
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This book examines contemporary Indigenous affairs through questions of relationality, presenting a range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the what, who, when, where, and why of Indigenous–settler relations. It also explores relationality, a key analytical framework with which to explore Indigenous–settler relations in terms of what the relational characteristics are; who steps into these relations and how; the different temporal and historical moments in which these relations take place and to what effect; where these relations exist around the world and the variations they take on in different places; and why these relations are important for the examination of social and political life in the 21st century.
Its unique approach represents a deliberate move away from both settler-colonial studies, which examines historical and present impacts of settler states on Indigenous peoples, and from postcolonial and decolonial scholarship, which predominantly focuses on how Indigenous peoples speak back to the settler state. It explores the issues that inform, shape, and give social, legal, and political life to relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples, both in Australia and globally.
- About the authors
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Sarah Maddison is an Associate Professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne.Sarah co-founded and co-directs the Indigenous Settler Relations Collaboration, a research unit in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne.Her areas of research expertise include Indigenous-Settler relations, reconciliation and conflict transformation, Indigenous political culture, and social movements.
Sana Nakata is a Torres Strait Islander, who has lived and worked on Wurundjeri land all her adult life. Trained as a lawyer and political theorist, her research is centered upon developing an approach for thinking politically about childhood in ways that improve the capacity of adult decision-makers to act in their interests. Her current Australian Research Council Discovery Indigenous project looks at representations of children in Australian political controversies, with particular focus upon Indigenous Australian children and child asylum seeker.
- Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Introduction: Questioning Indigenous-Settler Relations: Reconciliation, Recognition, Responsibility
Pages 1-13
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Registers of Relationality for Knowing Indigenous-Settler Politics
Pages 15-31
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Settler-Colonial Governmentality: The Carceral Webs Woven by Law and Politics
Pages 33-53
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Writing as Kin: Producing Ethical Histories Through Collaboration in Unexpected Places. Researching F.W. Albrecht, Assimilation Policy and Lutheran Experiments in Aboriginal Education
Pages 55-68
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Analysing the Indigenous News Network in Action: IndigenousX, The Guardian and the Wakul App
Pages 69-86
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Questioning Indigenous-Settler Relations
- Book Subtitle
- Interdisciplinary Perspectives
- Editors
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- Sarah Maddison
- Sana Nakata
- Series Title
- Indigenous-Settler Relations in Australia and the World
- Series Volume
- 1
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Springer Singapore
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-981-13-9205-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-981-13-9205-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-981-13-9204-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-981-13-9207-8
- Series ISSN
- 2524-5767
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 158
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
- Topics