Silence or Deafness? Education and the Non-Indigenous Responsibility to Engage

Schools are understood as an important site for the circulation of discourses pertaining to colonisation and reconciliation. Wider community educational practices have also engaged with these concerns, including initiatives such as the Reconciliation Stud

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Limits of Settler Colonial Reconciliation Non-Indigenous People and the Responsibility to Engage

The Limits of Settler Colonial Reconciliation

Sarah Maddison Tom Clark Ravi de Costa •

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The Limits of Settler Colonial Reconciliation Non-Indigenous People and the Responsibility to Engage

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Editors Sarah Maddison School of Social and Political Sciences University of Melbourne Melbourne, VIC Australia

Ravi de Costa York University Toronto, ON Canada

Tom Clark Victoria University Melbourne, VIC Australia

ISBN 978-981-10-2653-9 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-2654-6

ISBN 978-981-10-2654-6

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Contents

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Non-Indigenous People and the Limits of Settler Colonial Reconciliation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tom Clark, Ravi de Costa and Sarah Maddison

Part I 2

Conceptualising the Limits of Settler Colonial Reconciliation

Beyond Colonial Completion: Arendt, Settler Colonialism and the End of Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elizabeth Strakosch

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Facing the Settler Colonial Present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lorenzo Veracini

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Two Kinds of Recognition: The Politics of Engagement in Settler Societies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ravi de Costa

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With Whom Do We Reconcile? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter Read

Part II 6

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Testing the Limits of Settler Colonial Relationships

Colonising White Innocence: Complicity and Critical Encounters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .