1st Edition

Indigenous Invisibility in the City Successful Resurgence and Community Development Hidden in Plain Sight

By Deirdre Howard-Wagner Copyright 2021
210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

Indigenous Invisibility in the City contextualises the significant social change in Indigenous life circumstances and resurgence that came out of social movements in cities. It is about Indigenous resurgence and community development by First Nations people for First Nations people in cities. Seventy-five years ago, First Nations peoples began a significant post-war period of relocation to... Read more

1. Introduction: Making the Invisible Visible: The City as a Critical Space of Indigenous Resurgence and Community Development

2. Settler-colonial Cities as Sites of Indigenous Relocation: From Removal to Relocation

3. Indigenous Resurgence in Settler-colonial Cities: From Social Movements to Organisation Building

4. Indigenous Social Economies Hidden in Plain Sight: Organisations, Community Entrepreneuring, Development

5. A ‘Renewed Right to Urban Life’: Reconciliation and Indigenous Political Agency

6. White Spaces and White Adaptive Strategies: Visibility and Aesthetic Upgrades and Indigenous Place and Space in the Post-industrial City in the Neoliberal Age

7. Neoliberal Poverty Governance and the Consequent Effects for Indigenous Community Development in the City

8. Conclusion: The Wilful Inattentiveness to Racial Inequality in Cities: What Black Lives Matter Protests Reveal about Indigenous Invisibility

Biography

Deirdre Howard-Wagner is a sociologist and associate professor with the Australian National University. Her expertise is in Indigenous policy. Her co-edited books include The Neoliberal State, Recognition and Indigenous Rights (2018), Indigenous Justice (2018), and Unveiling Whiteness in the Twenty-First Century (2015).