Full Description
This edited collection presents perspectives from a range of disciplines on the challenges of dismantling coloniality in settler societies.
Showcasing a variety of pedagogies and case studies, the book offers approaches to the praxis of decolonisation in diverse settings including tertiary education, activism, arts curatorial practice, the media, trans-Indigeneity, and psychosocial therapy. Chapters centre on the personal, relational, and political work needed to support decolonisation in settler societies in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, the United States, and Canada. Drawing from experiences in the field, contributors argue that to decolonise research and build authentic relationships with Indigenous communities, settler researchers must learn from Indigenous worldviews without appropriating them, disrupt colonial epistemologies, and reconcile their place in colonialism. Indigenising is discussed as a counterpart to the decolonisation process, involving restoring and centring the Indigenous voice within Indigenised socio-cultural, economic, legal, and political structures and institutions, including the return of land.
The book is a rich resource for researchers seeking to understand and support decolonisation in settler societies, and will appeal to non-Indigenous scholars, students, and those involved in decolonisation work in community and institutional settings.
Contents
List of contributors
Preface
Introduction
Section One
Chapter 1: Making space at the institutional table: Co-work and risk in the colonial university
Sarah Maddison
Chapter 2: 'So, are you Indigenous?' Settler responsibilities when teaching Indigenous Australian Studies
Holly Randell-Moon
Chapter 3: 'It's complicated': Reflections on Teaching Citizenship in Aotearoa - New Zealand
Sharon McLennan, Giles Dodson, Ella Kahu, Carol Neill, and Richard Shaw
Chapter 4: Indigenous Peer Learning in a Digital Third Space
Christine Woods and Billie Lythberg
Chapter 5: Remembering and repositioning episodes of historical violence between settlers and Indigenous people
Liana MacDonald (Ngāti Kuia, Rangitāne o Wairau, Ngāti Koata)
Section Two
Chapter 6: Tau(gh)t relationships and fraught responsibilities: (de)colonisation practices in new non-Māori adult learners of te reo, the Māori language
Michelle O'Toole
Chapter 7: Co-Conspiring in a time of Hulihia at Mauna Kea
Leanne P. Day and Rebecca H. Hogue
Chapter 8: Critical White Settler Projects as an intergenerational responsibility: Activating decolonial co-resistance in the cultural sector
Leah Decter and Carla Taunton
Chapter 9: Does Indigenous Media have a role in building new migrant narratives of decolonisation?
Susan Nemec
Chapter 10: S is for Settler: A Psychosocial Perspective on Belonging and Unbelonging in Aotearoa New Zealand
Keith Tudor
Chapter 11: Thinking about Pacific relational space, along-side and in the presence of tāngata whenua in Aotearoa-New Zealand.
Tina (A.-Chr.) Engels-Schwarzpaul
Index
