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Decolonizing Solidarity: Dilemmas and Directions for Supporters of Indigenous Struggles [Kõva köide]

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  • Formaat: Hardback, 336 pages, kõrgus x laius: 216x138 mm
  • Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jul-2015
  • Kirjastus: Zed Books Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 1783601736
  • ISBN-13: 9781783601738
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 336 pages, kõrgus x laius: 216x138 mm
  • Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jul-2015
  • Kirjastus: Zed Books Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 1783601736
  • ISBN-13: 9781783601738
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Decolonizing Solidarities is a thorough examination of the problems that can arise when activists from colonial backgrounds seek to be politically supportive of indigenous struggles. Blending key theoretical and practical questions, Clare Land argues that the impulses that drive middle-class settler activists to support indigenous peoples will not lead to successful alliances and meaningful social change without an essential process of public political action and critical self-reflection.

Based on a wealth of in-depth interviews and original research, with a focus on Australia,Decolonizing Solidarities provides a vital resource for anyone involved in indigenous activism or scholarship.


In this highly original and much-needed book, Clare Land interrogates the often fraught endeavours of activists from colonial backgrounds seeking to be politically supportive of Indigenous struggles. Blending key theoretical and practical questions, Land argues that the predominant impulses which drive middle-class settler activists to support Indigenous people cannot lead to successful alliances and meaningful social change unless they are significantly transformed through a process of both public political action and critical self-reflection.

Based on a wealth of in-depth, original research, and focussing in particular on Australia, where - despite strident challenges - the vestiges of British law and cultural power have restrained the nation's emergence out of colonising dynamics, Decolonizing Solidarities provides a vital resource for those involved in Indigenous activism and scholarship.

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An ambitious and important book that comes at a pivotal time I recommend reading it, reflecting, and reading it again. * Canadian Journal of Education * This timely and important book by Clare Land offers a critical resource to assist a new generation of activists provides urgently needed and critically important reflections on the practices of solidarity activism that push beyond liberal models of solidarity politics. * E3W Review of Books * Land provides meaningful and insightful accounts of community-based education initiatives necessary for solidarity movements. * McGill Journal of Education * Lands book is an important contribution to an emergent non-Indigenous progressive research agenda provides an opportunity to reflect on the nature of solidarity work more generally, posing broader questions of involvement and self-interest in solidarity politics and intersectional work for activists. * Overland Literary Journal * [ T]his book should be compulsory reading for non-Indigenous scholars, including postgraduate students, whose research interests revolve around Indigenous communities. * State Crime * In this excellent book, Land covers an exceptional breadth of issues with considerable aplomb. It is a provocative and lively read, rich with data that brings indigenous voices to the fore. * Damien Short, School of Advanced Study * Excellent... The book is written in a way that is accessible to a range of allies outside academic circles and speaks to real case studies. * Linda Tuhiwai Smith, author of Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples * A thoughtful and thought-provoking book. Both profound and practical, Land poses vital questions to the reader interested in solidarity and social change. * Patta Scott-Villiers, Institute of Development Studies * A nuanced and insightful examination of the complexity and challenges of being an ally to Indigenous struggles. It serves as an excellent and much-needed guide for all of us working for, with, or on behalf of marginalized and disenfranchised communities. * Paul Kivel, educator, activist and author of Uprooting Racism *

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An essential work to be read by all non-Indigenous scholars and activists seeking solidarity with Indigenous struggles across the world
Acknowledgements vii
Foreword ix
Introduction 1(37)
One Land rights, sovereignty and Black Power in south--east Australia
38(13)
Two A political genealogy for contemporary non-Indigenous activism in Australia
51(33)
Three Identity categories: how activists both use and refuse them
84(28)
Four Collaboration, dialogue and friendship: always a good thing?
112(47)
Five Acting politically with self-understanding
159(43)
Six A moral and political framework for non-Indigenous people's solidarity
202(27)
Seven Reckoning with complicity
229(19)
Conclusion Solidarity with other struggles 248(18)
Appendix I Acronyms 266(3)
Appendix II Key events and organizations in south-east Indigenous struggles 269(15)
Appendix III Biographies of people involved in the book 284(14)
Appendix IV Links to original activist documents 298(1)
References 299(18)
Index 317
Clare Land is a long-time supporter of Indigenous struggles. She works on research at Victoria Universitys Moondani Balluk Indigenous Academic Unit, supports social change projects at the Reichstein Foundation, and consults to community organizations on race relations. Clare has been engaged since 1998 with the history and present of settler colonialism. An Anglo-identified non-Aboriginal person living and working in south-east Australia, inspired by Aboriginal struggles, she has undertaken community-based organizing in solid support of a range of Aboriginal-led campaigns. Since 2004 Clare has collaborated with Krauatungulung (Gunai)/Djapwurrung (Gunditjmara) man Robbie Thorpe on campaigns, projects and a long-running radio programme on 3CR in Fitzroy, Melbourne, which focuses on colonialism and resistance.