Speaking/writing with Aboriginal and settler interrelations: interrogating the mechanisms that work to suppress Indigenous/indigenous voices in the 'Australian' situation
This thesis interrogates the mechanisms that work to suppress Indigenous/indigenous voices in the Australian situation socio- politically, historically and theoretically, to reveal how this suppression is always exceeded. The thesis is cross-disciplinary, engaging critical and cultural studies, crit...
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ftmacquariefig:oai:figshare.com:article/19438616 2023-05-15T16:17:03+02:00 Speaking/writing with Aboriginal and settler interrelations: interrogating the mechanisms that work to suppress Indigenous/indigenous voices in the 'Australian' situation Fiona McAllan 2020-10-23T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.25949/19438616.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Speaking_writing_with_Aboriginal_and_settler_interrelations_interrogating_the_mechanisms_that_work_to_suppress_Indigenous_indigenous_voices_in_the_Australian_situation/19438616 unknown doi:10.25949/19438616.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Speaking_writing_with_Aboriginal_and_settler_interrelations_interrogating_the_mechanisms_that_work_to_suppress_Indigenous_indigenous_voices_in_the_Australian_situation/19438616 In Copyright Other education not elsewhere classified Imperialis History Indigenous/settler interrelations Aboriginal Australians Treatment of Australia Race relations Aboriginal Australians Legal status laws etc Colonization History Aboriginal Australians Social conditions Indigenous Australians Australia Historiography Colonial sovereignties Text Thesis 2020 ftmacquariefig https://doi.org/10.25949/19438616.v1 2022-12-28T08:38:41Z This thesis interrogates the mechanisms that work to suppress Indigenous/indigenous voices in the Australian situation socio- politically, historically and theoretically, to reveal how this suppression is always exceeded. The thesis is cross-disciplinary, engaging critical and cultural studies, critical race and whiteness theory and indigenous relational ontology. 'First Nations Australians' are identified as indigenous in most discussions (while it is argued this collective is nevertheless a heterogeneous demography). While discussion circulates in and through 'Indigenous/indigenous' and 'settler' interrelations, the focus is on the relations between these collective identities - on the formation of subjectivities and ongoing construction of identity. It is argued that conditions that work to suppress Indigenous/indigenous voices in the general discussion are reproduced when colonising relations continue to construct the dominant perspectival paradigm. It is argued that different worldviews are in play, making sharing and negotiation of difference at the boundaries necessary. I also deconstruct the imposition of colonial sovereignty and theorise a co-sovereign existential relation, fundamental to reciprocal sociality. The thesis theorises ways of speaking 'with', in place of 'for' others, hence resisting and overwhelming the colonising frame. In exploring the relationship between deconstructionist and resistant disciplines from within the Western rationalist paradigm, and Indigenous relational ontologies, I have found that such disciplines, outside of the characteristic binarised thinking modes of the West, share their capacity for change, innovation, creativity and engagement with futurity. This opens productive ground with which to pose the following thesis research question: "Is it possible to theorise and engage an in-relation ethos and consciousness that will allow for the transformation of relations of suppression and subordination to those of reciprocity, mutual respect and engagement, thus providing a ... Thesis First Nations Research from Macquarie University |
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This thesis interrogates the mechanisms that work to suppress Indigenous/indigenous voices in the Australian situation socio- politically, historically and theoretically, to reveal how this suppression is always exceeded. The thesis is cross-disciplinary, engaging critical and cultural studies, critical race and whiteness theory and indigenous relational ontology. 'First Nations Australians' are identified as indigenous in most discussions (while it is argued this collective is nevertheless a heterogeneous demography). While discussion circulates in and through 'Indigenous/indigenous' and 'settler' interrelations, the focus is on the relations between these collective identities - on the formation of subjectivities and ongoing construction of identity. It is argued that conditions that work to suppress Indigenous/indigenous voices in the general discussion are reproduced when colonising relations continue to construct the dominant perspectival paradigm. It is argued that different worldviews are in play, making sharing and negotiation of difference at the boundaries necessary. I also deconstruct the imposition of colonial sovereignty and theorise a co-sovereign existential relation, fundamental to reciprocal sociality. The thesis theorises ways of speaking 'with', in place of 'for' others, hence resisting and overwhelming the colonising frame. In exploring the relationship between deconstructionist and resistant disciplines from within the Western rationalist paradigm, and Indigenous relational ontologies, I have found that such disciplines, outside of the characteristic binarised thinking modes of the West, share their capacity for change, innovation, creativity and engagement with futurity. This opens productive ground with which to pose the following thesis research question: "Is it possible to theorise and engage an in-relation ethos and consciousness that will allow for the transformation of relations of suppression and subordination to those of reciprocity, mutual respect and engagement, thus providing a ... |
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Speaking/writing with Aboriginal and settler interrelations: interrogating the mechanisms that work to suppress Indigenous/indigenous voices in the 'Australian' situation |
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Speaking/writing with Aboriginal and settler interrelations: interrogating the mechanisms that work to suppress Indigenous/indigenous voices in the 'Australian' situation |
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Speaking/writing with Aboriginal and settler interrelations: interrogating the mechanisms that work to suppress Indigenous/indigenous voices in the 'Australian' situation |
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Speaking/writing with Aboriginal and settler interrelations: interrogating the mechanisms that work to suppress Indigenous/indigenous voices in the 'Australian' situation |
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Speaking/writing with Aboriginal and settler interrelations: interrogating the mechanisms that work to suppress Indigenous/indigenous voices in the 'Australian' situation |
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speaking/writing with aboriginal and settler interrelations: interrogating the mechanisms that work to suppress indigenous/indigenous voices in the 'australian' situation |
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