Questioning Indigenous-Settler Relations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

167 Pages·2020·2.009 MB·English

by  Sarah Maddison, Sana Nakata

Indigenous-Settler Relations in Australia and the World
Series Editors: Sarah Maddison · Sana Nakata
Sarah Maddison
Sana Nakata Editors
Questioning
Indigenous-Settler
Relations
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Indigenous-Settler Relations in Australia
and the World
Volume 1
Series Editors
SarahMaddison,SchoolofSocialandPoliticalSciences,UniversityofMelbourne,
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Sana Nakata, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Editorial Board
Miriam Jorgensen, Native Nations Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ,
USA
Sheryl Lightfoot,Department ofPolitical Science, University ofBritish Columbia,
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Morgan Brigg, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia
Yin Paradies, Deakin University, Burwood, VIC, Australia
Jeff Denis, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Bronwyn Fredericks, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia
Libby Porter, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Theseries,Indigenous-SettlerRelationsinAustraliaandtheWorld,bringstogether
scholarsinterestedinexaminingcontemporaryIndigenousaffairsthroughquestions
of relationality. This is a unique approach that represents a deliberate move away
frombothsettler-colonialstudies,whichexamineshistoricalandpresentimpactsof
settler states upon Indigenous peoples, and from postcolonial and decolonial
scholarship, which is predominantly interested in how Indigenous peoples speak
backtothesettlerstate.Closelyconnectedto,butwithmeaningfulcontrasttothese
approaches, theIndigenous-Settler Relationsseriesfocuses sharply upon questions
about what informs, shapes and gives social, legal and political life to relations
between Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous peoples, both in Australia and
globally.
This is an important and timely endeavour. In Australia, relations between
AboriginalandTorresStraitIslanderpeoplesandthestateareatanimpasse.Inthe
wake of the government’s rejection of the Uluru Statement in 2017 there is no
sharedviewonhowIndigenous-settlerrelationshipsmightbe‘reset’,orevenifthis
ispossible.ThecontemporaryIndigenousaffairspolicydomainischaracterisedby
confusion, frustration and disappointment that, despite a seemingly endless
succession of policy regimes, efforts to ‘close the gap’ between Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander peoples and other Australians have not resulted in progress.
ItisintothiscontestedspacethattheIndigenous-SettlerRelationsseriesseeksto
intervene with new, agenda-setting research. The series editors are based in a
researchunitintheFacultyofArtsattheUniversityofMelbourne—theIndigenous
Settler Relations Collaboration. The series will build on the work of the
Collaboration in bringing together scholars and practitioners from around
Australia, and around the world—particularly other Anglophone settler colonial
societies such as Canada, the United States and New Zealand—whose work is
concerned with Indigenous-settler relations across a range of disciplines. The
multi-faceted approachtoIndigenous-Settler Relations thatdefinestheseriesseeks
to capture how the question of relationality is already being asked by scholars
across disciplines including political science, history, sociology, law, media, and
cultural studies.
Readers of this series will look to it for fresh perspectives and new ideas about
howtotransformIndigenous-settlerrelationsinAustraliaandelsewhere.Theywill
learn from the leading lights in an emerging field who will connect their rich,
multi-disciplinaryscholarshiptourgentsocialandpoliticalquestionsattheheartof
Indigenous-Settler relations.
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/16142
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Editors
Questioning
Indigenous-Settler Relations
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
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Editors
SarahMaddison SanaNakata
Schoolof Social andPolitical Sciences Schoolof Social andPolitical Sciences
University of Melbourne University of Melbourne
Melbourne, VIC,Australia Melbourne, VIC,Australia
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Acknowledgements
We wish to acknowledge that many individuals and communities have made this
book possible. Many of the chapters in this collection were first presented at a
researchworkshophostedbytheIndigenous–SettlerRelationsCollaborationatthe
University of Melbourne. This workshop was made possible due to the funding
support of the Social and Political Sciences Workshop Funding scheme and the
FacultyofArts,whichfundstheIndigenous–SettlerRelationsCollaboration.Other
contributions benefited from the support of the 2018 Trinity College Indigenous
HigherEducationConference.Andothercontributionsstillhavebeenforthcoming
due to their collegiate enthusiasm and intellectual commitment.
IlariaWalkerfirstcommissionedthebookseries,Indigenous-SettlerRelationsin
AustraliaandtheWorld,ofwhichthistitleisourfirstoffering.Wearegratefulfor
her vision and trust during these early stages and to Nick Melchior who has sus-
tained that commitment.
We acknowledge Prof. Yin Paradies who reviewed the full manuscript and
offered valuable criticism and constructive advice to all our contributors. Our
research assistant, Tristen Harwood, has calmly and steadily overseen the pro-
duction of this volume from the earliest stages of workshopping and submitted
drafts across the review process, resubmissions and now to this polished endpoint.
Most importantly, this book has been made possible due to the Wurundjeri
peoples of the Kulin nations upon whose unceded territories the Parkville campus
ofTheUniversityofMelbourneresides.Ouroccupationoftheirlandisaninjustice
that will possiblynever be made right. These words alone do very little toprovide
deserving reparations for that irreparable loss. We sit with that discomfort daily
while working toward better relations between our institutions and First Nations
peoples everywhere.
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Contents
1 Introduction: Questioning Indigenous-Settler Relations:
Reconciliation, Recognition, Responsibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Sarah Maddison and Sana Nakata
2 Registers of Relationality for Knowing
Indigenous-Settler Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Morgan Brigg
3 Settler-Colonial Governmentality: The Carceral Webs Woven
by Law and Politics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Thalia Anthony
4 Writing as Kin: Producing Ethical Histories Through
Collaboration in Unexpected Places. Researching F.W. Albrecht,
Assimilation Policy and Lutheran Experiments in Aboriginal
Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Katherine Ellinghaus and Barry Judd
5 Analysing the Indigenous News Network in Action:
IndigenousX, The Guardian and the Wakul App . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
David Nolan, Lisa Waller, Jack Latimore, Margaret Simons
and Kerry McCallum
6 The Politics of (Dis)Trust in Indigenous Help-Seeking . . . . . . . . . . 87
Bronwyn Carlson and Ryan Frazer
7 Capitalising on Success: Relationality and Indigenous Higher
Education Futures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Nikki Moodie
8 Preparing for the Gift: Two Educator’s Perspectives on
Practicing Indigenous-Settler Relations in the Classroom . . . . . . . . 125
Lilly Brown and Dave Collis
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9 Learning to Live Lawfully on Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Libby Porter
10 Separatism as a Mode of Relations: Practicing Indigenous
Resurgence and Nationhood in the 21st Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Sarah Maddison
Editors and Contributors
About the Editors
Sarah Maddison is a Professor of Politics in the School of Social and Political
Sciences at theUniversity ofMelbourne and co-Director ofthe Indigenous–Settler
Relations Collaboration. She has published widely in international journals and is
the author or editor of eight books including the new book The Colonial Fantasy
(2019), which argues that the Australian settler state cannot solve Indigenous
problemsbecausethesettlerstateistheproblem,andTheLimitsofSettlerColonial
Reconciliation(2016),ConflictTransformationandReconciliation(2015),Beyond
White Guilt (2011), Unsettling the Settler State (2011) and Black Politics (2009).
Dr. Sana Nakata is a Lecturer in Political Science in the School of Social and
Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, an ARC Discovery Indigenous
Research Fellow (2016–2019) and co-Director of the Indigenous–Settler Relations
Collaboration. Sana’s research centres on developing an approach for thinking
politically about childhood in ways that improve the capacity of adult decision
makerstoactintheirinterests.Her2015bookChildhoodCitizenship,Governance
andPolicyexamineschildren’srightsandcitizenshipintheUSA,UKandAustralia
and analyses the policy, law and sociology that govern the transition from child-
hood to adulthood.
Contributors
Thalia Anthony University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Morgan Brigg University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, Australia
Lilly Brown University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Bronwyn Carlson Macquarie University, North Sydney, Australia
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Dave Collis University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Katherine Ellinghaus La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia
Ryan Frazer Macquarie University, North Sydney, Australia
Barry Judd Charles Darwin University, Alice Springs, Australia
Jack Latimore University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Sarah Maddison University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Kerry McCallum University of Canberra, Bruce, Australia
Nikki Moodie University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Sana Nakata University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
David Nolan University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Libby Porter RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Margaret Simons Monash University, Clayton, Australia
Lisa Waller Deakin University, Burwood, Australia