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Acting Sovereign: Interventions In A Politics Of Gendered Protectionsim, Borderlands E - Journal, Goldie Osuri, Tanja Dreher, Elaine Laforteza
Acting Sovereign: Interventions In A Politics Of Gendered Protectionsim, Borderlands E - Journal, Goldie Osuri, Tanja Dreher, Elaine Laforteza
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
The papers in this volume arise from a politics of 'acting sovereign' in the face of discourses of gendered protectionism focused on Indigenous and Muslim women in Australia. Discourses of 'protection' have been deployed to legitimize ongoing colonial relations, particularly in terms of the Intervention into Northern Territory Indigenous communities and the policing of Muslim communities during the 'war on terror. In this editorial we outline the contemporary politics of gendered protection an the possibilities for 'acting sovereign', as well as introducing a series of workshops convened in order to explore possibilities for alliances and interventions around these themes. The …
Beyond Celebration: Australian Indigenous Festivals, Politics And Ethics, Lisa Slater
Beyond Celebration: Australian Indigenous Festivals, Politics And Ethics, Lisa Slater
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
In contemporary Australia public discourse about Indigeneity in general and remote Indigenous communities in particular has been circumscribed by a climate of crisis. This has awakened mainstream Australia to vast inequalities, but the discursive frame continues to disable, or severely limit, an engagement with Indigenous lived experience and values. It also protects non-Indigenous, primarily I speak of, white, settler, Australians from comprehending and taking responsibility for their/our role in re-producing Indigenous marginality. The very sovereignty of the good, white, liberal subject-citizen rests upon being the universal image of good and healthy. I argue that the resistance by white, settler Australians …
Eavesdropping With Permission: The Politics Of Listening For Safer Speaking Spaces, Tanja Dreher
Eavesdropping With Permission: The Politics Of Listening For Safer Speaking Spaces, Tanja Dreher
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
This paper explores the possibilities and limits of a politics of ‘listening’ as a strategy for a privileged white woman to contribute to antiracism in the face of dominant discourses of gendered protectionism. Reflecting on my own role as a co-convenor of a series of workshops aimed at intervening in discourses and policies of ‘protection’ directed at Indigenous and Muslim women, I suggest that ‘eavesdropping with permission’ may in some cases contribute to the negotiation of safer speaking spaces. In contrast to ‘dialogue’ aimed at empathy or understanding, ‘eavesdropping with permission’ involves the possibility of shifting risk and redistributing discomfort …