Official apologies, reconciliation, and settler colonialism: Australian indigenous alterity and political agency
@article{Moses2011OfficialAR, title={Official apologies, reconciliation, and settler colonialism: Australian indigenous alterity and political agency}, author={A. Moses}, journal={Citizenship Studies}, year={2011}, volume={15}, pages={145 - 159} }
The burgeoning literature on transitional justice, truth commissions, reconciliation and official apologies tends to ignore the conditions of settler states in which ‘reconciliation’ needs to take account of indigenous minorities. The settler colonialism literature is worth including in the general discussion because it is exceptionally reflective about political theory (the constitutional recognition of indigenous rights) and ethnogenesis (the origin and viability of both settler and… Expand
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