Elizabeth Strakosch
Biographic Data
| ID | 91365 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Strakosch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Strakosch |
| SIGNATURE | STRAKOSCH E |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7607-8424 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Scaring the shit out of the colony
In this article, we argue for the power of spite in building a Black-Palestinian antiracist collective driven by Indigenous sovereignty. Reflecting on key moments in our work together in Magandjin/Brisbane, we argue that spite generates sovereign action via its insistence on survival in spite of and to spite the colony. Because this form of antiracism does not require permission it always escapes domestication, and ultimately insists on joy, love…
Australia' as competing projects of settler nationalism
Bureaucratic Occupation
Violence as care
This chapter examines the fundamental political dynamics of Indigenous public policy in liberal settler colonies such as Australia. Indigenous policy systems in these liberal states are framed around the idea of ‘care’ and are often understood as technical and neutral instruments for achieving better outcomes in Indigenous wellbeing. However, this chapter explores how these systems are conditioned by the fundamental dynamics of sovereignty, burea…
Mapping the spatial politics of Australian settler colonialism
Cartography has historically been a weapon of colonists used to demarcate land stolen by empire. More recently, however, ‘critical cartographies’ have emerged as a means of critiquing colonial discourses, revealing maps as representations of the dominating ideologies that produce them. This article explores a series of ongoing questions raised by our own work seeking to map the intersection of colonial and Indigenous governance regimes in so-call…
The violence of analogy
This article explores the value of theorising about colonialism that is specific rather than universal, informed by our locations in colonial struggles and driven by engagement with our continuing material colonial relationships with land, place and people. We do this by examining recent scholarly engagements with our contemporary precarious global economic and environmental conditions, particularly within settler colonial theory. We argue that u…
Australian political studies and the production of disciplinary innocence
While Australian political studies often appears to have neglected engagements with Indigenous peoples and politics, we argue this is not a simple question of omission. In fact, the discipline is deeply implicated in imperial knowledge production and the authorisation of racialised colonial governance. As non-Indigenous scholars working within Australian political studies, in this paper we reflect on our own discipline in light of several decades…
Whose politics and which science? Rethinking the discipline in the context of Australian settler colonial relationships
In the United Kingdom and America, political scientists are involved in increasingly intense conversations about the implication of the discipline in racial and colonial hierarchies. As a recent volume by Bhambra, Gebrial and Nisancioglu begins, ‘the call to decolonise univeristies across the global north has gained particular traction in recent years’ (2018, 1). In the contemporary ‘post-race’ world, these interventions insist on the importance …
The technical is political
Contemporary Australian Indigenous policy changes rapidly and regularly fails to deliver its stated aims. Additionally, political and social relationships between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the Australian state remain complex and contested. This article draws on critical Indigenous theory, alongside the increasingly influential scholarly paradigm of settler colonialism, to draw these two elements together. It highlights the…
Neoliberal Indigenous Policy
Neoliberal Indigenous Policy
This book examines recent changes to Indigenous policy in English-speaking settler states, and locates them within the broader shift from social to neo-liberal framings of citizen-state relations via a case study of Australian federal policy between 2000 and 2007.
Policy
As Alfred points out, If sovereignty has been neither legitimized nor justified, it has nevertheless limited the ways we are able to think, suggesting always a conceptual and definitional problem centred on the accommodation of indigenous peoples within a ‘legitimate’ framework of settler state governance. When we step outside this discourse, we confront a different problematic, that of the state’s ‘sovereignty’ itself. (Alfred 2005: 34–35) These…
Contemporary Indigenous Affairs
The ethical demands of settler colonial theory
This article explores the strengths and limitations of settler colonial theory (SCT) as a tool for non-Indigenous scholars seeking to disturb rather than re-enact colonial privilege. Based on an examination of recent Australian academic debates on settler colonialism and the Northern Territory intervention, we argue that SCT is useful in dehistoricizing colonialism, usually presented as an unfortunate but already transcended national past, and in…
Counter-Monuments and Nation-Building in Australia
Counter-monuments aim to challenge and invert the nation-building agenda of traditional state memorials. Instead of presenting a simple story of triumph or martyrdom, they confront the nation-state with its own crimes and exclusions. In contrast to traditional pedagogical monuments, they use abstract rather than literal forms to accommodate ambivalence, multiplicity, and change. Scholars such as James E. Young have celebrated this new generation …
A Reconsideration of the Political Significance of Shared Responsibility Agreements
The 1996–2007 Howard Coalition government introduced Shared Responsibility Agreements in 2005 to allocate discretionary funding to indigenous communities in a “mutually responsible” way. The policy was widely criticized as an ineffective and ideologically driven “showpiece”. Its significant governance‐building dimensions went without comment. Through the deployment of the conceptual tools of contract and governance, SRAs established new and depol…
The technical is political
Contemporary Australian Indigenous policy changes rapidly and regularly fails to deliver its stated aims. Additionally, political and social relationships between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the Australian state remain complex and contested. This article draws on critical Indigenous theory, alongside the increasingly influential scholarly paradigm of settler colonialism, to draw these two elements together. It highlights the…
Mapping the spatial politics of Australian settler colonialism
Cartography has historically been a weapon of colonists used to demarcate land stolen by empire. More recently, however, ‘critical cartographies’ have emerged as a means of critiquing colonial discourses, revealing maps as representations of the dominating ideologies that produce them. This article explores a series of ongoing questions raised by our own work seeking to map the intersection of colonial and Indigenous governance regimes in so-call…
Australian political studies and the production of disciplinary innocence
While Australian political studies often appears to have neglected engagements with Indigenous peoples and politics, we argue this is not a simple question of omission. In fact, the discipline is deeply implicated in imperial knowledge production and the authorisation of racialised colonial governance. As non-Indigenous scholars working within Australian political studies, in this paper we reflect on our own discipline in light of several decades…
Counter-Monuments and Nation-Building in Australia
Counter-monuments aim to challenge and invert the nation-building agenda of traditional state memorials. Instead of presenting a simple story of triumph or martyrdom, they confront the nation-state with its own crimes and exclusions. In contrast to traditional pedagogical monuments, they use abstract rather than literal forms to accommodate ambivalence, multiplicity, and change. Scholars such as James E. Young have celebrated this new generation …
Whose politics and which science? Rethinking the discipline in the context of Australian settler colonial relationships
In the United Kingdom and America, political scientists are involved in increasingly intense conversations about the implication of the discipline in racial and colonial hierarchies. As a recent volume by Bhambra, Gebrial and Nisancioglu begins, ‘the call to decolonise univeristies across the global north has gained particular traction in recent years’ (2018, 1). In the contemporary ‘post-race’ world, these interventions insist on the importance …
The violence of analogy
This article explores the value of theorising about colonialism that is specific rather than universal, informed by our locations in colonial struggles and driven by engagement with our continuing material colonial relationships with land, place and people. We do this by examining recent scholarly engagements with our contemporary precarious global economic and environmental conditions, particularly within settler colonial theory. We argue that u…
A Reconsideration of the Political Significance of Shared Responsibility Agreements
The 1996–2007 Howard Coalition government introduced Shared Responsibility Agreements in 2005 to allocate discretionary funding to indigenous communities in a “mutually responsible” way. The policy was widely criticized as an ineffective and ideologically driven “showpiece”. Its significant governance‐building dimensions went without comment. Through the deployment of the conceptual tools of contract and governance, SRAs established new and depol…
Counter-Monuments and Nation-Building in Australia
Counter-monuments aim to challenge and invert the nation-building agenda of traditional state memorials. Instead of presenting a simple story of triumph or martyrdom, they confront the nation-state with its own crimes and exclusions. In contrast to traditional pedagogical monuments, they use abstract rather than literal forms to accommodate ambivalence, multiplicity, and change. Scholars such as James E. Young have celebrated this new generation …
Contemporary Indigenous Affairs
The ethical demands of settler colonial theory
This article explores the strengths and limitations of settler colonial theory (SCT) as a tool for non-Indigenous scholars seeking to disturb rather than re-enact colonial privilege. Based on an examination of recent Australian academic debates on settler colonialism and the Northern Territory intervention, we argue that SCT is useful in dehistoricizing colonialism, usually presented as an unfortunate but already transcended national past, and in…
Neoliberal Indigenous Policy
This book examines recent changes to Indigenous policy in English-speaking settler states, and locates them within the broader shift from social to neo-liberal framings of citizen-state relations via a case study of Australian federal policy between 2000 and 2007.
Policy
As Alfred points out, If sovereignty has been neither legitimized nor justified, it has nevertheless limited the ways we are able to think, suggesting always a conceptual and definitional problem centred on the accommodation of indigenous peoples within a ‘legitimate’ framework of settler state governance. When we step outside this discourse, we confront a different problematic, that of the state’s ‘sovereignty’ itself. (Alfred 2005: 34–35) These…
Neoliberal Indigenous Policy
Australian political studies and the production of disciplinary innocence
While Australian political studies often appears to have neglected engagements with Indigenous peoples and politics, we argue this is not a simple question of omission. In fact, the discipline is deeply implicated in imperial knowledge production and the authorisation of racialised colonial governance. As non-Indigenous scholars working within Australian political studies, in this paper we reflect on our own discipline in light of several decades…
Whose politics and which science? Rethinking the discipline in the context of Australian settler colonial relationships
In the United Kingdom and America, political scientists are involved in increasingly intense conversations about the implication of the discipline in racial and colonial hierarchies. As a recent volume by Bhambra, Gebrial and Nisancioglu begins, ‘the call to decolonise univeristies across the global north has gained particular traction in recent years’ (2018, 1). In the contemporary ‘post-race’ world, these interventions insist on the importance …
The technical is political
Contemporary Australian Indigenous policy changes rapidly and regularly fails to deliver its stated aims. Additionally, political and social relationships between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the Australian state remain complex and contested. This article draws on critical Indigenous theory, alongside the increasingly influential scholarly paradigm of settler colonialism, to draw these two elements together. It highlights the…
The violence of analogy
This article explores the value of theorising about colonialism that is specific rather than universal, informed by our locations in colonial struggles and driven by engagement with our continuing material colonial relationships with land, place and people. We do this by examining recent scholarly engagements with our contemporary precarious global economic and environmental conditions, particularly within settler colonial theory. We argue that u…
Mapping the spatial politics of Australian settler colonialism
Cartography has historically been a weapon of colonists used to demarcate land stolen by empire. More recently, however, ‘critical cartographies’ have emerged as a means of critiquing colonial discourses, revealing maps as representations of the dominating ideologies that produce them. This article explores a series of ongoing questions raised by our own work seeking to map the intersection of colonial and Indigenous governance regimes in so-call…
Bureaucratic Occupation
Violence as care
This chapter examines the fundamental political dynamics of Indigenous public policy in liberal settler colonies such as Australia. Indigenous policy systems in these liberal states are framed around the idea of ‘care’ and are often understood as technical and neutral instruments for achieving better outcomes in Indigenous wellbeing. However, this chapter explores how these systems are conditioned by the fundamental dynamics of sovereignty, burea…
Australia' as competing projects of settler nationalism
Scaring the shit out of the colony
In this article, we argue for the power of spite in building a Black-Palestinian antiracist collective driven by Indigenous sovereignty. Reflecting on key moments in our work together in Magandjin/Brisbane, we argue that spite generates sovereign action via its insistence on survival in spite of and to spite the colony. Because this form of antiracism does not require permission it always escapes domestication, and ultimately insists on joy, love…
Law (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Indigenous (11 works) · Colonialism (8 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works) · Law (5 works)