Title: Decolonizing solidarity : dilemmas and directions for supporters of indigenous struggles /
Authors: Land, Clare,
Year: 2015
Subjects: Aboriginal Australians Civil rights; Aboriginal Australians Politics and government; Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of.; Aboriginal Australians Civil rights.; Aboriginal Australians Politics and government.; Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of.; Colonization; Australia Colonization.; Australia
Abstract: In this highly original and much-needed book, Clare Land interrogates the often fraught endeavours of activists from colonial backgrounds seeking to be politically supportive of Indigenous struggles. Blending key theoretical and practical questions, Land argues that the predominant impulses which drive middle-class settler activists to support Indigenous people cannot lead to successful alliances and meaningful social change unless they are significantly transformed through a process of both public political action and critical self-reflection. Based on a wealth of in-depth, original research, and focussing in particular on Australia, where - despite strident challenges - the vestiges of British law and cultural power have restrained the nation's emergence out of colonising dynamics, Decolonizing Solidarities provides a vital resource for those involved in Indigenous activism and scholarship.
Contents: Land rights, sovereignty and Black Power in south-east Australia -- A political genealogy for contemporary non-Indigenous activism in Australia -- Identity categories: how activists both use and refuse them -- Collaboration, dialogue and friendship: always a good thing? -- Acting politically with self-understanding -- A moral and political framework for non-Indigenous people's solidarity -- Reckoning with complicity -- Conclusion: Solidarity with other struggles.