The psychic life of colonial power
Racialised subjectivities, bodies and methods
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12396643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D W Riggs (0000-0003-0961-9099, The University of Adelaide, corresponding author), Martha Augoustinos (0000-0002-7212-1499, The University of Adelaide) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 461-477 |
| Publication date | 2005-10-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1052-9284 • E-ISSN: 1099-1298 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/casp.838 |
| OpenAlex | W2042546879 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 39 |
| References cited | 17 |
Ongoing histories of racism in colonial nations such as Australia challenge us as academics to consider how we understand racism and its role in practices of both privilege and oppression. In this article we as two non‐indigenous people living in Australia attempt to work through issues of collective responsibility by focusing on what we believe are three key issues in the study of racism: 1) methodology and researcher subjectivity, 2) subjectification as a practice of racialisation and 3) racialised embodiment and its relation to power. In exploring these three issues we utilise theoretical interpretations of subjectivity and embodiment alongside a brief examination of a speech by Prime Minister Howard in order to elaborate our claim that racism is foundational to white subjectivities in Australia. By examining colonial violence and our relation to it, we seek to develop a framework within which psychological research on racism in Australia may disturb white claims to belonging by continuing to explore how racism works in the service of the ‘good nation’. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Anti-racism · Colonialism · Epistemology · Indigenous · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Privilege (computing · Psychic · Racism · Sociology · Subjectification · Subjectivity · White (mutation · White privilege · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Law · Social Representations and Identity
Social Representations and Identity
Pedagogies of strategic empathy
Whiteness as Technology of Affect
Critical Race Studies in Psychology
Learning Difference
Bodies That Matter
You don't do it in public
After dark in the antipodes
Against the notion of a ‘new racism’
Visualising the Colonised Other
Talking the talk
The management of accusations of racism in Celebrity Big Brother
Anti-Asian Sentiment Amongst a Sample of White Australian Men on Gaydar
Psy-expertise, therapeutic culture and the politics of the personal in development
(De)colonizing Culture in Community Psychology
The epistemological intimacies of the urban frontier
Us and them
Just a preference
Whitewashing the Gap
Whiteness=politeness
Transnationalism, migration and emotions
Future directions for a critical social psychology of racism/antiracism
Accounting for Racism Against Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand
The blighted germs of heterosexual tendencies’
Challenging the Standard Story of indigenous rights in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Everyday antiracism in interpersonal contexts
Examining discourses of whiteness and the potential for Reconciliation
The ‘real’ of racializing embodiment
The Psy-Security-Curriculum ensemble
Dead people don’t claim’
Avoiding the involvement overdose
Just a Joke”
Luso-tropicalism as a social representation in Portuguese society
Australia Day or Invasion Day? Perspectives on the Continuing Impact of Colonialism Underlies Public Contestations Around Australia's National Day
Responding to racism
Central African Refugee Women Resettled in Australia
Racialised Self-Marketisation
Explicating race privilege
Thin selves
Black Skin, White Masks
Ethnocentrism as a Form of Intuition in Psychology
Desiring Whiteness
The Racial Contract
"But it's racism I really hate"
Understanding history as a rhetorical strategy
Genocide or a Failure to Gel? Racism, History and Nationalism in Australian Talk
Apologising to the stolen generations
Is the Mirror Racist
Projecting Threat
Indigenous Sovereignty and the Violence of Perspective
The Social Memory of a Colonial Frontier
Freudian Repression
Dark Continents
The Material Effects of the Word
The Psychic Life of Power
| Unique citing works | 39 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,86 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 39 |