Questioning Indigenous-Settler Relations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Sarah Maddison · Sana Nakata
Aug 2019 · Indigenous-Settler Relations in Australia and the World Book 1 · Springer Nature
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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 author
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.
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.
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