1st Edition
Anxieties of Belonging in Settler Colonialism Australia, Race and Place
By Lisa Slater
Copyright 2019
162 Pages
by
Routledge
162 Pages
by
Routledge
162 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book analyses the anxiety "well-intentioned" settler Australian women experience when engaging with Indigenous politics. Drawing upon cultural theory and studies of affect and emotion, Slater argues that settler anxiety is an historical subjectivity which shapes perception and senses of belonging. Why does Indigenous political will continue to provoke and disturb? How does settler anxiety... Read more
1. Introducing Anxieties of Settler Belonging 2. Love and Complicity 3. Desiring Belonging 4. Waiting on the Ground of Impossibility 5. This Is Not a Gift 6. Not Caring Like the State. Afterword
Biography
Lisa Slater is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Wollongong.
