RT Article
T1 Australian reconciliation and the enduring invisibility of whiteness
JF International journal of transitional justice
VO 18
IS 2
SP 237
OP 249
A1 Hand, Samara
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1900638517
AB Reconciliation has emerged as one of the key goals of transitional justice and a favoured policy approach to address the racism, inequality and historical injustices experienced by Indigenous peoples in settler-colonial states. This article focuses on Australian reconciliation and argues that it has failed to critically engage with whiteness, limiting the potential of reconciliation to address the root causes of these issues. Drawing on critical whiteness studies and Aileen Moreton-Robinson’s concept of patriarchal white sovereignty, the article analyses the federal government’s push for constitutional recognition and demonstrates why reconciliation perpetuates the dispossession of Indigenous lands. The article also engages Michael Rothberg’s figure of the implicated subject to complicate the concept of whiteness and overcome the Indigenous/settler or victim/perpetrator binary. This article contributes to the field of transitional justice by advocating for a more explicit and critical examination of whiteness to advance justice in settler colonial contexts.
K1 Australia
K1 Racism
K1 Reconciliation
K1 Transitional Justice
K1 Whiteness
DO 10.1093/ijtj/ijae016