Tuesday, Jul 15, 2008

4-15-08 Aboriginal Australia and Settler Colonialism: Interview with Aileen Moreton-Robinson

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Join your host, J. Kehaulani Kauanui, for a live in-studio interview with Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Professor of Indigenous Studies at Queensland University of Technology. She is a Geonpul woman from Minjerribah (Stradbroke Island), Quandamooka First Nation (Moreton Bay) in Queensland, Australia. Moreton-Robinson has advocated for Indigenous rights at local, state, national and international levels and worked for a number of Indigenous organizations. Moreton-Robinson's activist and scholarly work theorizes settler colonialism and white possession in Australia. She is author of Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism; Whitening Race: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism; as well as Sovereign Subjects: Indigenous Sovereignty Matters. She will discuss contemporary indigenous politics in Australia, especially in light of the Prime Minister's recent Apology to Aboriginal peoples, and the Australian government's recent military invasion of the Northern Territory in the name of "protecting" Aboriginal children.

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