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1 y separately published work icon Indigenous Nations and Collaborative Futures 2020 Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield , 2020- 24556512 2020 series - publisher criticism
1 1 y separately published work icon The Children's Country : Creation of a Goolarabooloo Future in North-West Australia Stephen Muecke , Paddy Roe , Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield , 2020 24556523 2020 multi chapter work criticism

'In North-West Australia, between 2009 and 2013, a major Indigenous-environmentalist alliance waged a successful campaign to stop a huge industrial development, a $45 billion liquefied gas plant proposed by Woodside and its partners. The Western Australian government and key Indigenous institutions also pushed hard for this, making the custodians of the Country, the Goolarabooloo, an embattled minority.

'This experimental ethnography documents the Goolarabooloo's knowledge of Country, their long history of struggle for survival, and the alliances that formed to support them. Written in a fictocritical style, it introduces a new 'multirealist' kind of analysis that focuses on institutions (Indigenous or European), their spheres of influence, and how they organised to stay alive as alliances shifted and changed.'  (Publication summary)

1 1 y separately published work icon Young and Free : [Post]colonial Ontologies of Childhood, Memory and History in Australia Joanne Faulkner , London New York (City) : Rowman and Littlefield , 2016 22904705 2016 multi chapter work criticism

 'Tracing the complex yet intimate relationship between a present-day national obsession with childhood and a colonial past with which Australia as a nation has not adequately come to terms, Young and Free draws on philosophy, literature, film and testimony. The result is a demonstration of how anxiety about childhood has become a screen for more fundamental and intractable issues that vex Australian social and political life. Joanne Faulkner argues that by interpreting these anxieties in their relation to settler-colonial Australia's unresolved conflict with Aboriginal people, new ways of conceiving of Australian community may be opened. The book engages with philosophical and literary characterizations of childhood, from Locke and Rousseau, to Freud, Bergson, Benjamin Agamben, Lacan, Ranciere and Halbwachs. The author's psychoanalytic approach is supplemented by an engagement with contemporary political philosophy that informs Faulkner's critique of the concepts of the subject, sovereignty and knowledge, resulting in a speculative postcolonial model of the subject. Cover artist credit: Lyndsay Bird Mpetyane Artwork title: Ahakeye (Bush Plum)' (Publication summary)

 

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