The Truth Will Set You Free? The Promises and Pitfalls of Truth‐Telling for Indigenous Emancipation
First Nations in Australia are beginning to grapple with processes of treaty‐making with state governments and territories. As these processes gain momentum, truth‐telling has become a central tenet of imagining Indigenous emancipation and the possibility of transforming relationships between Indige...
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ftssoar:oai:gesis.izsoz.de:document/87550 2023-07-30T04:03:32+02:00 The Truth Will Set You Free? The Promises and Pitfalls of Truth‐Telling for Indigenous Emancipation Maddison, Sarah Hurst, Julia Thomas, Archie 2023-07-11T08:40:56Z https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/87550 https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/6491/3076 https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v11i2.6491 unknown PRT 2183-2803 https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/87550 https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/6491/3076 https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v11i2.6491 Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 Social Inclusion 11 2 212-222 Indigenous Emancipation: The Fight Against Marginalisation, Criminalisation, and Oppression Soziale Probleme und Sozialdienste Politikwissenschaft Social problems and services Political science Indigenous–settler relations truth and justice truth and reconciliation truth commissions truth‐telling soziale Probleme politische Willensbildung politische Soziologie politische Kultur Social Problems Political Process Elections Political Sociology Political Culture Australien Kanada Versöhnung indigene Völker Wahrheit Emanzipation soziale Gerechtigkeit Australia Canada reconciliation indigenous peoples truth emancipation social justice Zeitschriftenartikel journal article 2023 ftssoar https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v11i2.6491 2023-07-16T23:04:48Z First Nations in Australia are beginning to grapple with processes of treaty‐making with state governments and territories. As these processes gain momentum, truth‐telling has become a central tenet of imagining Indigenous emancipation and the possibility of transforming relationships between Indigenous and settler peoples. Truth, it is suggested, will enable changed ways of knowing what and who "Australia" is. These dynamics assume that truth‐telling will benefit all people, but will truth be enough to compel change and provide an emancipated future for Indigenous people? This article reports on Australian truth‐telling processes in Victoria, and draws on two sets of extant literature to understand the lessons and outcomes of international experience that provide crucial insights for these processes - that on truth‐telling commissions broadly, and that focusing specifically on a comparable settler colonial state process, the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The article presents a circumspect assessment of the possibilities for Indigenous emancipation that might emerge through truth‐telling from our perspective as a team of Indigenous and non‐Indigenous critical scholars. We first consider the normative approach that sees truth‐telling as a potentially flawed but worthwhile process imbued with possibility, able to contribute to rethinking and changing Indigenous - settler relations. We then consider the more critical views that see truth‐telling as rehabilitative of the settler colonial state and obscuring ongoing colonial injustices. Bringing this analysis into conversation with contemporary debate on truth‐telling in Australia, we advocate for the simultaneous adoption of both normative and critical perspectives to truth‐telling as a possible way forward for understanding the contradictions, opportunities, and tensions that truth‐telling implies. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations SSOAR - Social Science Open Access Repository Canada Social Inclusion 11 2 |
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First Nations in Australia are beginning to grapple with processes of treaty‐making with state governments and territories. As these processes gain momentum, truth‐telling has become a central tenet of imagining Indigenous emancipation and the possibility of transforming relationships between Indigenous and settler peoples. Truth, it is suggested, will enable changed ways of knowing what and who "Australia" is. These dynamics assume that truth‐telling will benefit all people, but will truth be enough to compel change and provide an emancipated future for Indigenous people? This article reports on Australian truth‐telling processes in Victoria, and draws on two sets of extant literature to understand the lessons and outcomes of international experience that provide crucial insights for these processes - that on truth‐telling commissions broadly, and that focusing specifically on a comparable settler colonial state process, the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The article presents a circumspect assessment of the possibilities for Indigenous emancipation that might emerge through truth‐telling from our perspective as a team of Indigenous and non‐Indigenous critical scholars. We first consider the normative approach that sees truth‐telling as a potentially flawed but worthwhile process imbued with possibility, able to contribute to rethinking and changing Indigenous - settler relations. We then consider the more critical views that see truth‐telling as rehabilitative of the settler colonial state and obscuring ongoing colonial injustices. Bringing this analysis into conversation with contemporary debate on truth‐telling in Australia, we advocate for the simultaneous adoption of both normative and critical perspectives to truth‐telling as a possible way forward for understanding the contradictions, opportunities, and tensions that truth‐telling implies. |
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The Truth Will Set You Free? The Promises and Pitfalls of Truth‐Telling for Indigenous Emancipation |
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The Truth Will Set You Free? The Promises and Pitfalls of Truth‐Telling for Indigenous Emancipation |
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The Truth Will Set You Free? The Promises and Pitfalls of Truth‐Telling for Indigenous Emancipation |
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