White Australian identities and Indigenous land rights

Land has been central to debates about the relationship between Indigenous (First Nations) and non-Indigenous Australian identities since colonial violence founded the nation. How do white Australians understand Indigenous land rights? This paper draws on an empirical ethnographic study with rural p...

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Published in:Social Identities
Main Author: Koerner, Catherine
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Routledge 2015
Subjects:
1606 Political Science
1608 Sociology
2002 Cultural Studies
Race
Nation
Identity
Indigenous Relations
Colonialism
Australian Identity
First Nations
Online Access:http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/160106
https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2014.1002391
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Summary:Land has been central to debates about the relationship between Indigenous (First Nations) and non-Indigenous Australian identities since colonial violence founded the nation. How do white Australians understand Indigenous land rights? This paper draws on an empirical ethnographic study with rural people who self-identify as ‘white Australian’ to analyze the key discourses of land, identity and nation and the complexities of how whiteness and race is socially produced and lived in rural Australia. The study found that white Australian discourses of nation and identity limit most of the respondents' ability to construct their identity in relation to Indigenous sovereignty.

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