Relating Indigenous and Settler Identities [electronic resource] : Beyond Domination /
Bell, A.author.
This book uses identity theories to explore the struggles of indigenous peoples against the domination of the settler imaginary in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. The book argues that a new relational imaginary can revolutionize the way settler peoples think about and relate to indigenous difference.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; The settler and the indigene - and their relationality; The settler imaginary; Why Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States?; Colonial discourse analysis; Argument and chapter overview; Part I: The Settler Imaginary; 2 Indigenous Authenticity and Settler Nationalisms; Identity concepts - authenticity, primitivism and nationhood; 'Passing away' and 'passing on' - 'ingesting' indigenous authenticity as national origin; Contemporary indigenous authenticity and the reconciliation of settler nationhood
Repressive authenticity and indigenous peopleIndigenous authenticity as an identity strategy; 3 Hybrid Identities and the 'One-way Street' of Assimilation; Identity concepts - hybridity, 'race' and 'blood'; Histories of assimilation and the 'problem' of hybridity; Doubled hybridities; Syncretic hybridities; The 'happy hybridity' of the settler; Ontological hybridities and the colonial legacy; Part II: Postcolonial Resistances; 4 Performative Hybridity in the 'Ruins of Representation'; Colonial mimicry; Cultural difference and performative hybridity; Cultural difference and the uncanny
Colonial mimicry and the 'tripled dreams' of the unhomely settlerIndigenous resistance - repeating 'otherwise'; Indigenous ghosts and the 'return' of indigenous difference; Conclusion; 5 Strategic Essentialism, Indigenous Agency and Difference; Strategic essentialism, deconstruction and indigenous epistemologies; Anti-essentialism and autonomous difference; Indigenous recovery and remnants of the 'Aboriginal dominant'; Incommensurability and living (with) difference; Conclusion; Part III: Towards the Relational Imaginary; 6 'Deep Colonizing': The Politics of Recognition; Recognition theories
Recognition in practice - the 'cunning of recognition'The scope of tribal sovereignty; The limits of recognition: defending 'the precarious ground of the colonial future'; The 'double-bind' of recognition; The settler subject of recognition; Conclusion; 7 Ethical Obligation and Relationality; Alterity and the interruption of western metaphysics; The 'generative tension' between ethics and politics; Interrupting the liberal desire for mastery - a 'meditation on discomfort'; Welcoming indigenous difference - humility, openness and 'situated availability'
The productivity of ethics: relations of co-existenceConclusion; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book uses identity theories to explore the struggles of indigenous peoples against the domination of the settler imaginary in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. The book argues that a new relational imaginary can revolutionize the way settler peoples think about and relate to indigenous difference.
Sociology.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Political sociology.
Ethnicity.
Social policy.
Imperialism.
Sociology, general.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Political Sociology.
Ethnicity Studies.
Social Policy.
Imperialism and Colonialism.