Anxieties of Belonging in Settler Colonialism - Australia, Race and Place

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 inform public opinion and "solutions" to Indigenous inequality? In its rigorous interrogation of the dynamics of settler colonialism, emotions and ethical belonging, Anxieties of Belonging has far-reaching implications for understanding Indigenous-settler relations.

List of contents

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

About the author

Lisa Slater is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Wollongong.

Summary

This book examines the anxiety that "well-intentioned" settler Australian women experience when engaging with Indigenous politics. Slater asks: why does Indigenous political will continue to provoke and disturb? How does settler anxiety inform public opinion and "solutions" to Indigenous inequality and issues of social justice?

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Slater, Lisa (University of Wollongong Slater
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9780367585594
• ISBN: 978-0-367-58559-4
• No. of pages: 142
• Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Australia, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Women, HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, Colonialism & imperialism, Indigenous Peoples, Social and cultural history, Colonialism and imperialism, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity