Systems, Self, and Sovereignty: Non-Indigenous Practitioners Negotiate Whiteness in Aboriginal Partnerships
Australia is built upon a foundation of colonial conquest, and it continues to implement government policies and systems of management based on a colonising logic and the denial of Indigenous sovereignty. This study employed qualitative methods and discourse analysis to draw on the experiences of si...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:oai:doaj.org/article:d69d486d7eaa407ea169ed99d59ca447 2023-05-15T16:15:25+02:00 Systems, Self, and Sovereignty: Non-Indigenous Practitioners Negotiate Whiteness in Aboriginal Partnerships Tania L. Searle Monique Mulholland 2018-01-01 https://doi.org/10.18584/iipj.2018.9.1.5 https://doaj.org/article/d69d486d7eaa407ea169ed99d59ca447 en eng University of Western Ontario doi:10.18584/iipj.2018.9.1.5 1916-5781 https://doaj.org/article/d69d486d7eaa407ea169ed99d59ca447 undefined International Indigenous Policy Journal, Vol 9, Iss 1 (2018) Whiteness natural resource management First Nations or Indigenous government partnerships decolonisation scipo hist Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2018 fttriple https://doi.org/10.18584/iipj.2018.9.1.5 2023-01-22T17:58:38Z Australia is built upon a foundation of colonial conquest, and it continues to implement government policies and systems of management based on a colonising logic and the denial of Indigenous sovereignty. This study employed qualitative methods and discourse analysis to draw on the experiences of six non-Indigenous Australians employed by the South Australian Government in Aboriginal partnerships and natural resource management. Drawing on critical Whiteness studies, the article reveals that participants in this cohort are largely critical of colonial structures of government and the inequalities that arise. Despite this critical awareness, there was often a difficulty in finding a language to describe the fog of Whiteness, along with the tendency to describe ecological knowledge at the expense of more complex issues of First Nations sovereignty. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Unknown International Indigenous Policy Journal 9 1 |
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Australia is built upon a foundation of colonial conquest, and it continues to implement government policies and systems of management based on a colonising logic and the denial of Indigenous sovereignty. This study employed qualitative methods and discourse analysis to draw on the experiences of six non-Indigenous Australians employed by the South Australian Government in Aboriginal partnerships and natural resource management. Drawing on critical Whiteness studies, the article reveals that participants in this cohort are largely critical of colonial structures of government and the inequalities that arise. Despite this critical awareness, there was often a difficulty in finding a language to describe the fog of Whiteness, along with the tendency to describe ecological knowledge at the expense of more complex issues of First Nations sovereignty. |
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Systems, Self, and Sovereignty: Non-Indigenous Practitioners Negotiate Whiteness in Aboriginal Partnerships |
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Systems, Self, and Sovereignty: Non-Indigenous Practitioners Negotiate Whiteness in Aboriginal Partnerships |
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