A Curriculum of Migrant Home

Settler Geographies, Land and Colonial Place-making

Bibliographic Data

ID21829006
AuthorsBryan Smith (0000-0002-0105-0857, James Cook University, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume12
Issue2
Pages42-53
Publication date2021-04-24
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCultural and Pedagogical Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1916-3460 • E-ISSN: 1916-3460
PublisherUniversity of Alberta Libraries (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.18733/cpi29581
OpenAlexW3159218309
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited11

In this article, I examine two ideas that have provoked me to reconsider my relationship to decolonising work as a settler. First, I consider the idea of home and the grounds, both material and symbolic, that make such “home-making” possible as a settler moving between states with similar aggressive investments in what Aileen Moreton-Robinson (2015) calls white possessive logics. Second, I take up a practice increasingly common in Australia – Welcomes to Country – that complicates how land is positioned as a space for people to gather. While I don’t suggest that Welcomes to Country are a panacea that resolve settler co-opting of acknowledgements as a tool of innocence (Asher, Curnow, & Davis, 2018), there is something inherently disruptive in Welcomes that might prove ethically instructive for those of us who find ourselves migrating within the settler-colonial sphere as we seek to make new homes

Colonialism · Genealogy · Innocence · Linguistics · Political science · Possessive · Sociology · History · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Philosophy

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