Lisa Slater
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 165242 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Lisa Slater |
| PRENOMES | Lisa |
| SOBRENOME | Slater |
| ASSINATURA | SLATER L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Wollongong |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9580-659X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Unforgetting
There is a sculpture in the main street of Gundagai (NSW, Australia) that honours two Wiradjuri men, Yarri and Jacky Jacky, local heroes in the Great Flood of 1852. Unveiled in 2017, the bronze sculpture depicts the two men and a scribbly-bark canoe used to save settler townspeople from the floodwaters. The sculpture, unmissable in the town’s centre, reminds even the most forgetful onlooker of colonialism. Unlike many Australian monuments, this s…
Celebrating 30 years of the CSAA
Learning to Stand with Gyack
Settler colonialism attempts to make invisible the labours of care that Indigenous peoples have been doing for millennia. Notably, the imposition of settler colonial ontologies-epistemologies disrupt and compromise Indigenous people's obligations to land and ancestors (Kwaymullina, Ambelin. 2020. Living on Stolen Land. Broome: Magabala Books, 7). Kim Tallbear calls upon settler scholars to think more expansively about what counts as the benefits …
Unsettling Democracy
Unsettling Democracy: Adam Dahl’s Empire of the People Lisa Slater (bio) Adam Dahl. Empire of the People: Settler Colonialism and the Foundations of Modern Democratic Thought. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2018. 272 pp. $24.95 (pb). ISBN: 9780700626076. At the close of Adam Dahl’s Empire of the People, he calls for unsettling democracy. To do so, he turns to Indigenous political thought, in particular decolonial theories of democracy.…
A politics of uncertainty
My purpose is to consider the role that uncertainty might play in reimagining political responsibility in Australia. There is a growing body of scholarship that is re-examining what it might mean to be settler colonial and politically responsible. It urges settlers to not only comprehend their complicity in structures of violence and oppression – colonialism, environmental degradation, racial inequality, for example – but more so, to know how the…
Good White People
The focus of this essay is the racialised political emotions of ‘good white people’. I examine what Berlant names ‘public feelings’, focusing on the way emotional states are part of communal experiences. My interest is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ repeated calls for mainstream Australia to genuinely engage with political and cultural difference, and listen. Such claims often make ‘good white people’ anxious. They protest, insist…
Feeling
A Meditation on Discomfort
To borrow from Irene Watson, this is a meditation on discomfort (2007). I begin at a cultural tourism site in northeast Arnhem Land, where Yolηu women were teaching Napaki (non-Indigenous) women about their kinship systems and responsibilities. The tourists were eager to learn: at times insistent and demanding. There was something too familiar about the scene: the settler women’s clawing desire for ‘Aboriginal culture’, only just keeping at bay t…
A Companion to the Works of Kim Scott
New essays on the acclaimed Australian Indigenous author's entire body of work, including his novels, short stories, poetry, and his work with Indigenous language and health. Since the mid-1980s there has been a sharp rise in the number of literary publications by Indigenous Australians and in the readership and impact of those works. One contemporary Aboriginal Australian author who continues to makea contribution to both the Australian and the …
Saltwater cowboys
This paper begins at the Derby (western Kimberley, WA) bull rides, where young Aboriginal men compete to be champion bull riders – with the prize of a social status akin to that of an AFL football star. The abundance of life performed in this arena lies in stark contrast to the too often rehearsed appalling health and social statistics, which has produced policies such as the Northern Territory National Emergency Response, Shared Responsibility A…
Anxious Settler Belonging
i) When I arrived in Aurukun, west Cape York, it was the heat that struck me first, knocking the city pace from my body, replacing it with a languor familiar to my childhood, although heavier, more northern. Fieldwork brings with it its own delights and anxieties. It is where I feel most competent and incompetent, where I am most indebted and thankful for the generosity and kindness of strangers. I love the way "no-where" places quickly become so…
Wild Rivers, Wild Ideas
In 2005 the Australian Queensland state government passed the Wild Rivers Act to preserve the natural heritage of rivers. My interest is not with all Wild Rivers but rather with those in Cape York where the public debate has been fierce and divisive. Prominent Cape York Aboriginal leaders and organisations condemned the bill. A coalition of north Queensland Traditional Owners support the policy and call for the 'proper Indigenous management of co…
The Locals
Introduction
Calling our Spirits Home
In a discussion about the problems affecting young people of Cape York, a local community health worker told me: 'their spirits have wandered too far. We need to call them back to them'. In the last five years mainstream notions of wellbeing have changed dramatically, but still there is little room for spirits and ancestors. It is now considered that the critical goods of health and wellbeing are leading a life with purpose, having quality connec…
My Island Home is Waiting for Me
It’s raining in sunny Queensland. Rain wasn’t on my mind when I left wintry Sydney, then I was wondering: why so many Indigenous festivals now? what are they doing? where did they come from? to what effect? Having fled a chilly Sydney mid-morning, I arrive Friday afternoon (Day 1 of the Dreaming Festival): after an easy one-hour flight to Brisbane, a clean and surprisingly on time train to Caboolture, a local school bus to Woodford, I share Woodf…
Benang , This “Most Local of Histories”
This article examines Kim Scott’s novel Benang as a counter-history and an ethics of speech, which participates in a regeneration of Nyoongar cultural knowledge. Scott appropriates colonial records into his textual topography to expose the ideology behind their neat genocidal script. However, he suggests that although the fight against oppression is paramount, to strengthen Nyoongar culture one must not only attend to the pain of history, but als…
Who Do I Serve
A few years ago I was recalling fieldwork anxieties to a colleague. His response was to ask, 'who do you serve?' The question threw me: I wanted to say, 'No one, I'm Australian'. A simple provocation and I become a wild colonial girl. We had attended a conference in Delhi together and it got him reminiscing about his time as a student in India: he spent a few years studying and travelling, accumulating friends, stories, bits and pieces of learnin…
Intimate Australia
This article offers a discussion of Margaret Somerville's Body/Landscape Journals
A politics of uncertainty
My purpose is to consider the role that uncertainty might play in reimagining political responsibility in Australia. There is a growing body of scholarship that is re-examining what it might mean to be settler colonial and politically responsible. It urges settlers to not only comprehend their complicity in structures of violence and oppression – colonialism, environmental degradation, racial inequality, for example – but more so, to know how the…
Wild Rivers, Wild Ideas
In 2005 the Australian Queensland state government passed the Wild Rivers Act to preserve the natural heritage of rivers. My interest is not with all Wild Rivers but rather with those in Cape York where the public debate has been fierce and divisive. Prominent Cape York Aboriginal leaders and organisations condemned the bill. A coalition of north Queensland Traditional Owners support the policy and call for the 'proper Indigenous management of co…
A Meditation on Discomfort
To borrow from Irene Watson, this is a meditation on discomfort (2007). I begin at a cultural tourism site in northeast Arnhem Land, where Yolηu women were teaching Napaki (non-Indigenous) women about their kinship systems and responsibilities. The tourists were eager to learn: at times insistent and demanding. There was something too familiar about the scene: the settler women’s clawing desire for ‘Aboriginal culture’, only just keeping at bay t…
Good White People
The focus of this essay is the racialised political emotions of ‘good white people’. I examine what Berlant names ‘public feelings’, focusing on the way emotional states are part of communal experiences. My interest is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ repeated calls for mainstream Australia to genuinely engage with political and cultural difference, and listen. Such claims often make ‘good white people’ anxious. They protest, insist…
Anxious Settler Belonging
i) When I arrived in Aurukun, west Cape York, it was the heat that struck me first, knocking the city pace from my body, replacing it with a languor familiar to my childhood, although heavier, more northern. Fieldwork brings with it its own delights and anxieties. It is where I feel most competent and incompetent, where I am most indebted and thankful for the generosity and kindness of strangers. I love the way "no-where" places quickly become so…
Learning to Stand with Gyack
Settler colonialism attempts to make invisible the labours of care that Indigenous peoples have been doing for millennia. Notably, the imposition of settler colonial ontologies-epistemologies disrupt and compromise Indigenous people's obligations to land and ancestors (Kwaymullina, Ambelin. 2020. Living on Stolen Land. Broome: Magabala Books, 7). Kim Tallbear calls upon settler scholars to think more expansively about what counts as the benefits …
Calling our Spirits Home
In a discussion about the problems affecting young people of Cape York, a local community health worker told me: 'their spirits have wandered too far. We need to call them back to them'. In the last five years mainstream notions of wellbeing have changed dramatically, but still there is little room for spirits and ancestors. It is now considered that the critical goods of health and wellbeing are leading a life with purpose, having quality connec…
My Island Home is Waiting for Me
It’s raining in sunny Queensland. Rain wasn’t on my mind when I left wintry Sydney, then I was wondering: why so many Indigenous festivals now? what are they doing? where did they come from? to what effect? Having fled a chilly Sydney mid-morning, I arrive Friday afternoon (Day 1 of the Dreaming Festival): after an easy one-hour flight to Brisbane, a clean and surprisingly on time train to Caboolture, a local school bus to Woodford, I share Woodf…
Benang , This “Most Local of Histories”
This article examines Kim Scott’s novel Benang as a counter-history and an ethics of speech, which participates in a regeneration of Nyoongar cultural knowledge. Scott appropriates colonial records into his textual topography to expose the ideology behind their neat genocidal script. However, he suggests that although the fight against oppression is paramount, to strengthen Nyoongar culture one must not only attend to the pain of history, but als…
Who Do I Serve
A few years ago I was recalling fieldwork anxieties to a colleague. His response was to ask, 'who do you serve?' The question threw me: I wanted to say, 'No one, I'm Australian'. A simple provocation and I become a wild colonial girl. We had attended a conference in Delhi together and it got him reminiscing about his time as a student in India: he spent a few years studying and travelling, accumulating friends, stories, bits and pieces of learnin…
Intimate Australia
This article offers a discussion of Margaret Somerville's Body/Landscape Journals
Benang , This “Most Local of Histories”
This article examines Kim Scott’s novel Benang as a counter-history and an ethics of speech, which participates in a regeneration of Nyoongar cultural knowledge. Scott appropriates colonial records into his textual topography to expose the ideology behind their neat genocidal script. However, he suggests that although the fight against oppression is paramount, to strengthen Nyoongar culture one must not only attend to the pain of history, but als…
My Island Home is Waiting for Me
It’s raining in sunny Queensland. Rain wasn’t on my mind when I left wintry Sydney, then I was wondering: why so many Indigenous festivals now? what are they doing? where did they come from? to what effect? Having fled a chilly Sydney mid-morning, I arrive Friday afternoon (Day 1 of the Dreaming Festival): after an easy one-hour flight to Brisbane, a clean and surprisingly on time train to Caboolture, a local school bus to Woodford, I share Woodf…
Calling our Spirits Home
In a discussion about the problems affecting young people of Cape York, a local community health worker told me: 'their spirits have wandered too far. We need to call them back to them'. In the last five years mainstream notions of wellbeing have changed dramatically, but still there is little room for spirits and ancestors. It is now considered that the critical goods of health and wellbeing are leading a life with purpose, having quality connec…
The Locals
Introduction
Anxious Settler Belonging
i) When I arrived in Aurukun, west Cape York, it was the heat that struck me first, knocking the city pace from my body, replacing it with a languor familiar to my childhood, although heavier, more northern. Fieldwork brings with it its own delights and anxieties. It is where I feel most competent and incompetent, where I am most indebted and thankful for the generosity and kindness of strangers. I love the way "no-where" places quickly become so…
Wild Rivers, Wild Ideas
In 2005 the Australian Queensland state government passed the Wild Rivers Act to preserve the natural heritage of rivers. My interest is not with all Wild Rivers but rather with those in Cape York where the public debate has been fierce and divisive. Prominent Cape York Aboriginal leaders and organisations condemned the bill. A coalition of north Queensland Traditional Owners support the policy and call for the 'proper Indigenous management of co…
A Companion to the Works of Kim Scott
New essays on the acclaimed Australian Indigenous author's entire body of work, including his novels, short stories, poetry, and his work with Indigenous language and health. Since the mid-1980s there has been a sharp rise in the number of literary publications by Indigenous Australians and in the readership and impact of those works. One contemporary Aboriginal Australian author who continues to makea contribution to both the Australian and the …
Saltwater cowboys
This paper begins at the Derby (western Kimberley, WA) bull rides, where young Aboriginal men compete to be champion bull riders – with the prize of a social status akin to that of an AFL football star. The abundance of life performed in this arena lies in stark contrast to the too often rehearsed appalling health and social statistics, which has produced policies such as the Northern Territory National Emergency Response, Shared Responsibility A…
A Meditation on Discomfort
To borrow from Irene Watson, this is a meditation on discomfort (2007). I begin at a cultural tourism site in northeast Arnhem Land, where Yolηu women were teaching Napaki (non-Indigenous) women about their kinship systems and responsibilities. The tourists were eager to learn: at times insistent and demanding. There was something too familiar about the scene: the settler women’s clawing desire for ‘Aboriginal culture’, only just keeping at bay t…
Good White People
The focus of this essay is the racialised political emotions of ‘good white people’. I examine what Berlant names ‘public feelings’, focusing on the way emotional states are part of communal experiences. My interest is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ repeated calls for mainstream Australia to genuinely engage with political and cultural difference, and listen. Such claims often make ‘good white people’ anxious. They protest, insist…
Feeling
Unsettling Democracy
Unsettling Democracy: Adam Dahl’s Empire of the People Lisa Slater (bio) Adam Dahl. Empire of the People: Settler Colonialism and the Foundations of Modern Democratic Thought. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2018. 272 pp. $24.95 (pb). ISBN: 9780700626076. At the close of Adam Dahl’s Empire of the People, he calls for unsettling democracy. To do so, he turns to Indigenous political thought, in particular decolonial theories of democracy.…
A politics of uncertainty
My purpose is to consider the role that uncertainty might play in reimagining political responsibility in Australia. There is a growing body of scholarship that is re-examining what it might mean to be settler colonial and politically responsible. It urges settlers to not only comprehend their complicity in structures of violence and oppression – colonialism, environmental degradation, racial inequality, for example – but more so, to know how the…
Learning to Stand with Gyack
Settler colonialism attempts to make invisible the labours of care that Indigenous peoples have been doing for millennia. Notably, the imposition of settler colonial ontologies-epistemologies disrupt and compromise Indigenous people's obligations to land and ancestors (Kwaymullina, Ambelin. 2020. Living on Stolen Land. Broome: Magabala Books, 7). Kim Tallbear calls upon settler scholars to think more expansively about what counts as the benefits …
Celebrating 30 years of the CSAA
Unforgetting
There is a sculpture in the main street of Gundagai (NSW, Australia) that honours two Wiradjuri men, Yarri and Jacky Jacky, local heroes in the Great Flood of 1852. Unveiled in 2017, the bronze sculpture depicts the two men and a scribbly-bark canoe used to save settler townspeople from the floodwaters. The sculpture, unmissable in the town’s centre, reminds even the most forgetful onlooker of colonialism. Unlike many Australian monuments, this s…
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