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Land, Race and the Settler Imagination

Land, Race and the Settler Imagination

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ISBN: 9781991301765
Publisher/Imprint: Bridget Williams Books
Published: 1 Oct 26
Format: Paperback / softback
Dimensions: x mm

Description

In this incisive BWB Text, Liana MacDonald exposes how settler colonialism is sustained by the places we move through, the institutions we work in and the stories we tell. Deconstructing the ‘settler fantasy’, she reveals how a settler understanding of race, land and power is made to seem natural, even inevitable. Well-meaning efforts to challenge it can reinforce the very thing they oppose. Once we recognise our part in these stories, MacDonald argues, we might begin to remake our relationships with one another, in our everyday lives and workplaces.

Author

Liana MacDonald is an Indigenous sociologist and Associate Professor of Maori, Moriori and Indigenous Peace Studies at Otakou Whakaihu Waka - University of Otago. Her research examines how racism, whiteness and settler colonialism take shape in national institutions, and how Maori and other Indigenous peoples resist and flourish regardless.

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