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Complicity, Critique And Methodology, Fiona Probyn-Rapsey
Complicity, Critique And Methodology, Fiona Probyn-Rapsey
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Contemporary cultural texts point towards the acknowledgment of complicity as a starting point for engagement with Others, with the world, readers, and histories that energize them.Here I discuss the critical role that complicity (both as an act and as a concept) plays in drawing out the complex interrelationships between historical pasts and present.
Paternalism And Complicity: Or How Not To Atone For The 'Sins Of The Father', Fiona Probyn-Rapsey
Paternalism And Complicity: Or How Not To Atone For The 'Sins Of The Father', Fiona Probyn-Rapsey
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
The cultural politics of Australian colonialism revolve around discourses of paternalism and the ' protection' of Aboriginal people. Understanding how paternalism reproduces itself transgenerationally, and between whites and Aboriginal people, between subordinated groups, between women, is one way to approach its limits. Starting with this premise, I examine the ways in which paternalism reproduces itself, such that even today white paternalistic attitudes towards Aboriginal people and culture are pervasive. I focus here on Mary Ellen Jordan' s Australian memoir Balanda: My Year in Arnhem Land (2005), which is critical of, and complicit with, the biopolitical power of paternalism and its …