[csaa-forum] New Book: Anxieties of Belonging in Settler Colonialism: Australia, Race and Place

[Lisa Slater]

Dear Colleagues,
I would appreciate if you would consider ordering my Routledge monograph - Anxieties of Belonging in Settler Colonialism: Australia, Race and Place - for your institutional libraries, and relevant courses. It will be of interest to those who work in the areas of settler colonial studies, affect/emotion, cultural studies, whiteness and critical race studies and critical Indigenous studies.
For further information, see this link:
https://www.routledge.com/Anxieties-of-Belonging-in-Settler-Colonialism-Australia-Race-and-Place/Slater/p/book/9781138359468
 Anxieties of Belonging in Settler Colonialism is a meditation on discomfort. Lisa Slater examines the cultural politics of ‘recognition’ and ‘reconciliation’ — key concepts in the negotiation of Indigenous-settler relations — by analysing what ‘well-intentioned’ settler Australian women experience when engaging with Indigenous cultural politics. To do so, Slater investigates various cultural artefacts – memoir, film, cultural tourism and policy – to map settlers’ emotional responses to Indigeneity. Her focus is anxiety that arises when ‘good white women’ are confronted with what they perceive as ‘politics’ when they wanted to learn about ‘culture’. Discomfort provides insights into the contradictions and conflicts of progressive settler politics.
 Drawing upon cultural theory and contemporary studies of affect and emotion, Slater argues that settler anxiety is an historical subjectivity and an emotional territory, which shapes perception and orders values and senses of belonging. By investigating settler women’s anxiety she asks why does Indigenous political will continue to provoke and disturb? How does settler anxiety shape and inform public opinion and political solutions to Indigenous inequality and issues of social justice? While located in Australia, Anxieties of Belonging, in its rigorous interrogation of the dynamics of settler colonialism, emotions and ‘home’ has far-reaching implications for understanding Indigenous-settler relations.

Kind regards,
Lisa


Dr Lisa Slater
Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies
School of Humanities and Social Inquiry | Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts
University of Wollongong

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New Book: Anxieties of Belonging in Settler Colonialism: https://www.routledge.com/Anxieties-of-Belonging-in-Settler-Colonialism-Australia-Race-and-Place/Slater/p/book/9781138359468

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