Decolonizing Solidarity

Dilemmas and Directions for Supporters of Indigenous Struggles

Clare Land (Author) , Gary Foley (Foreword)

Decolonizing Solidarity

Dilemmas and Directions for Supporters of Indigenous Struggles

Clare Land (Author) , Gary Foley (Foreword)

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In this highly original and much-needed book, Clare Land interrogates the often fraught endeavours of activists from colonial backgrounds seeking to be politically supportive of Indigenous struggles. Blending key theoretical and practical questions, Land argues that the predominant impulses which drive middle-class settler activists to support Indigenous people cannot lead to successful alliances and meaningful social change unless they are significantly transformed through a process of both public political action and critical self-reflection.

Based on a wealth of in-depth, original research, and focussing in particular on Australia, where – despite strident challenges – the vestiges of British law and cultural power have restrained the nation's emergence out of colonizing dynamics, Decolonizing Solidarity provides a vital resource for those involved in Indigenous activism and scholarship.

Foreword
Introduction
1. Land Rights, Sovereignty and Black Power in South-East Australia
2. A Political Genealogy for Contemporary Non-Indigenous Activism in Australia
3. Identity Categories: How Activists Both Use and Refuse Them
4. Collaboration, Dialogue and Friendship: Always a Good Thing?
5. Acting Politically with Self-Understanding
6. A Moral and Political Framework for Non-Indigenous People's Solidarity
7. Reckoning with Complicity
Conclusion: Solidarity with Other Struggles
Appendix I. Acronyms
Appendix II. Key Events and Organizations in South-East Indigenous Struggles
Appendix III. Biographies of People Involved in the Book
Appendix IV. Links to Original Activist Documents

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Published	Aug 15 2015
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	336
ISBN	9781783601721
Imprint	Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions	9 x 5 inches
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Clare Land

Clare Land is a long-time supporter of Indigenous…

Foreword

Gary Foley

An ambitious and important book that comes at a pivotal time … I recommend reading it, reflecting, and reading it again.

Canadian Journal of Education
This timely and important book by Clare Land offers a critical resource to assist a new generation of activists … provides urgently needed and critically important reflections on the practices of solidarity activism that push beyond liberal models of solidarity politics.

E3W Review of Books
Land provides meaningful and insightful accounts of community-based education initiatives necessary for solidarity movements.

McGill Journal of Education
Land's book is an important contribution to an emergent “non-Indigenous progressive research agenda” … provides an opportunity to reflect on the nature of solidarity work more generally, posing broader questions of involvement and self-interest in solidarity politics and intersectional work for activists.

Overland Literary Journal
[T]his book should be compulsory reading for non-Indigenous scholars, including postgraduate students, whose research interests revolve around Indigenous communities.

State Crime
In this excellent book, Land covers an exceptional breadth of issues with considerable aplomb. It is a provocative and lively read, rich with data that brings indigenous voices to the fore.

Damien Short, School of Advanced Study