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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ftunivwontaojs:oai:ojs.uwo.ca:article/7540 2023-05-15T16:16:07+02:00 Systems, Self, and Sovereignty: Non-Indigenous Practitioners Negotiate Whiteness in Aboriginal Partnerships Searle, Tania L Mulholland, Monique 2018-02-02 application/pdf https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/iipj/article/view/7540 eng eng Western University https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/iipj/article/view/7540/6184 https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/iipj/article/view/7540 Copyright (c) 2018 Tania L Searle, Monique Mulholland https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND The International Indigenous Policy Journal; Vol. 9 No. 1 (2018) International Indigenous Policy Journal; Vol. 9 No. 1 (2018) 1916-5781 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 2018 ftunivwontaojs 2023-02-05T19:15:47Z 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 Western Libraries OJS 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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Searle, Tania L Mulholland, Monique Systems, Self, and Sovereignty: Non-Indigenous Practitioners Negotiate Whiteness in Aboriginal Partnerships |
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Searle, Tania L Mulholland, Monique |
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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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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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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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