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

"This book investigates whether and how reconciliation in Australia and other settler colonial societies might connect to the attitudes of non-Indigenous people in ways that promote a deeper engagement with Indigenous needs and aspirations. It explores concepts and practices of reconciliation, considering the structural and attitudinal limits to such efforts in settler colonial countries. Bringing together contributions by the world{u2019}s leading experts on settler colonialism and the politics of reconciliation, it complements current research approaches to the problems of responsibility and engagement between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples."--Publisher's website Front Matter....Pages i-viii Non-Indigenous People and the Limits of Settler Colonial Reconciliation....Pages 1-12 Front Matter....Pages 13-13 Beyond Colonial Completion: Arendt, Settler Colonialism and the End of Politics....Pages 15-33 Facing the Settler Colonial Present....Pages 35-48 Two Kinds of Recognition: The Politics of Engagement in Settler Societies....Pages 49-66 With Whom Do We Reconcile?....Pages 67-81 Front Matter....Pages 83-83 Colonising White Innocence: Complicity and Critical Encounters....Pages 85-102 Attitudinal Barriers to Reconciliation in Australia....Pages 103-118 Cultivating Sympathy and Reconciliation: The Importance of Sympathetic Response....Pages 119-135 ‘You Can’t Have Reconciliation Without Justice’: How Non-Indigenous Participants in Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Process Understand Their Roles and Goals....Pages 137-158 The Poetics of Non-Indigenous Reflexive Self-awareness: Strategies of Embodiment and Delegation in Focus Group Discussions in Australia....Pages 159-176 Truth, Sharing and Hearing: The Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Challenge of Civic Engagement....Pages 177-191 Front Matter....Pages 193-193 The Spaces of Dangerous Freedom: Disrupting Settler Colonialism....Pages 195-212 Reconciliation and the Quest for Economic Sameness....Pages 213-230 Silence or Deafness? Education and the Non-Indigenous Responsibility to Engage....Pages 231-247 The Limits of Reconciliation in Criminal Sentencing....Pages 249-269 What Is at Stake in Constitutional Recognition?....Pages 271-289 Back Matter....Pages 291-295