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Informationen zum Autor Aileen Moreton-Robinson is professor of Indigenous studies at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and is director of the National Indigenous Research and Knowledges Network. She is author of Talkin’ Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism and editor of several books, including Sovereign Subjects: Indigenous Sovereignty Matters. Klappentext The White Possessive explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless. Focusing on the Australian Aboriginal context, Aileen Moreton-Robinson questions current race theory in the first world and its preoccupation with foregrounding slavery and migration. The nation, she argues, is socially and culturally constructed as a white possession.Moreton-Robinson reveals how the core values of Australian national identity continue to have their roots in Britishness and colonization, built on the disavowal of Indigenous sovereignty. Whiteness studies literature is central to Moreton-Robinson’s reasoning, and she shows how blackness works as a white epistemological tool that bolsters the social production of whiteness-displacing Indigenous sovereignties and rendering them invisible in a civil rights discourse, thereby sidestepping thorny issues of settler colonialism. Throughout this critical examination Moreton-Robinson proposes a bold new agenda for critical Indigenous studies, one that involves deeper analysis of how the prerogatives of white possession function within the role of disciplines. Zusammenfassung The White Possessive Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: White Possession and Indigenous Sovereignty MattersPart I. Owning Property1. I Still Call Australia Home: Indigenous Belonging and Place in a Postcolonizing Society2. The House That Jack Built: Britishness and White Possession3. Bodies That Matter on the Beach4. Writing Off Treaties: Possession in the U.S. Critical Whiteness LiteraturePart II. Becoming Propertyless5. Nullifying Native Title: A Possessive Investment in Whiteness6. The High Court and the Yorta Yorta Decision7. Leesa’s Story: White Possession in the Workplace8. The Legacy of Cook’s ChoicePart III. Being Property9. Toward a New Research Agenda: Foucault, Whiteness, and Sovereignty10. Writing Off Sovereignty: The Discourse of Security and Patriarchal White Sovereignty11. Imagining the Good Indigenous Citizen: Race War and the Pathology of White Sovereignty12. Virtuous Racial States: White Sovereignty and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous PeoplesAfterwordNotesPublication HistoryIndex...
