Settler Responsibility for Decolonisation by Lythberg, Billie; Woods, Christine; Nemec, Susan;

Short description:

This edited collection presents perspectives from a range of disciplines on the challenges of dismantling coloniality in settler societies. 

Long description:

This edited collection presents perspectives from a range of disciplines on the challenges of dismantling coloniality in settler societies.

Showcasing a variety of pedagogies and case studies, the book offers approaches to the praxis of decolonisation in diverse settings including tertiary education, activism, arts curatorial practice, the media, trans-Indigeneity, and psychosocial therapy. Chapters centre on the personal, relational, and political work needed to support decolonisation in settler societies in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, the United States, and Canada. Drawing from experiences in the field, contributors argue that to decolonise research and build authentic relationships with Indigenous communities, settler researchers must learn from Indigenous worldviews without appropriating them, disrupt colonial epistemologies, and reconcile their place in colonialism. Indigenising is discussed as a counterpart to the decolonisation process, involving restoring and centring the Indigenous voice within Indigenised socio-cultural, economic, legal, and political structures and institutions, including the return of land.

The book is a rich resource for researchers seeking to understand and support decolonisation in settler societies, and will appeal to non-Indigenous scholars, students, and those involved in decolonisation work in community and institutional settings.

Table of Contents:

List of contributors

Preface

Introduction

Section One

Chapter 1:  Making space at the institutional table: Co-work and risk in the colonial university

         Sarah Maddison

Chapter 2:  'So, are you Indigenous?’ Settler responsibilities when teaching Indigenous Australian Studies

          Holly Randell-Moon

Chapter 3: ‘It’s complicated’: Reflections on Teaching Citizenship in Aotearoa - New Zealand

Sharon McLennan, Giles Dodson, Ella Kahu, Carol Neill, and Richard Shaw             

Chapter 4: Indigenous Peer Learning in a Digital Third Space

            Christine Woods and Billie Lythberg

Chapter 5:  Remembering and repositioning episodes of historical violence between settlers and Indigenous people

Liana MacDonald (Ngāti Kuia, Rangitāne o Wairau, Ngāti Koata)

Section Two

Chapter 6:  Tau(gh)t relationships and fraught responsibilities: (de)colonisation practices in new non-Māori adult learners of te reo, the Māori language

          Michelle O’Toole

Chapter 7:  Co-Conspiring in a time of Hulihia at Mauna Kea

        Leanne P. Day and Rebecca H. Hogue

Chapter 8: Critical White Settler Projects as an intergenerational responsibility: Activating decolonial co-resistance in the cultural sector

       Leah Decter and Carla Taunton

Chapter 9: Does Indigenous Media have a role in building new migrant narratives of decolonisation?

        Susan Nemec

Chapter 10: S is for Settler: A Psychosocial Perspective on Belonging and Unbelonging in Aotearoa New Zealand

            Keith Tudor

Chapter 11: Thinking about Pacific relational space, along-side and in the presence of tāngata whenua in Aotearoa-New Zealand.

          Tina (A.-Chr.) Engels-Schwarzpaul

Index