Settler colonialism and (re)conciliation: frontier violence, affective performances, and imaginative refoundings

"This book explores reconciliation's performative life and its discontents in settler societies. It explores the affective refoundings of the settler state and the radical reimagining of its alternatives by Indigenous peoples and allied others, and, in particular the way the past is creati...

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Main Author: Edmonds, Penelope (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire Palgrave Macmillan [2016]
In:Year: 2016
Edition:First published
Online Access: Cover
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Keywords:
Aboriginal Australians > Politics and government
Maori (New Zealand people) > Politics and government
Indians of North America > Politics and government
Reconciliation > Political aspects > Australia
Reconciliation > Political aspects > New Zealand
Reconciliation > Political aspects > United States
SCIENCE / General
Colonization > Social aspects
Reconciliation > Political aspects
Australia > Colonization > Social aspects
New Zealand > Colonization > Social aspects
United States > Colonization > Social aspects > Australia > New Zealand > United States
United States > Colonization > Social aspects
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Summary:"This book explores reconciliation's performative life and its discontents in settler societies. It explores the affective refoundings of the settler state and the radical reimagining of its alternatives by Indigenous peoples and allied others, and, in particular the way the past is creatively mobilized, reworked and enlisted in the name of social transformation within a new global paradigm of reconciliation and the 'age of apology' ... taking selected case studies across the postcolonial settler societies of the United States of America, Australia, and Aotearoa New Zealand"--Introduction
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-243) and index
Physical Description:xvi, 253 Seiten, Illustrationen, 23 cm
ISBN:1137304537
9781137304537
9781349671793