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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Edmonds, Penelope (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Series:	Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
Subjects:	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.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Performing (re)conciliation in settler societies
1. [United States] "Polishing the chain of friendship" : Two Row Wampum Renewal celebrations and matters of history
2. [United States] "This is our hearts!" : Unruly reenactments and unreconciled pasts in Lakota country
3. [Australia] "Walking Together" for Reconciliation : From the Sydney Harbour Bridge Walk to the Myall Creek Massacre Commemorations
4. [Australia] "Our history is not the last word" : Sorry Day at Risdon Cove and "Black Line" survival ceremony, Tasmania
5. [Aotearoa New Zealand] "We we did not sign a treaty...we did not surrender!" : Contesting the Consensus Politics of the Treaty of Waitangi in Aotearoa New Zealand
Conclusions.