The White Possessive explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless. Focusing on the Australian Aboriginal context, Aileen MoretonRobinson questions current race theory in the first world and its preoccupation with foregrounding slavery and migration. The nation, she argues, is socially and culturally constructed as a white possession.
By:
Aileen Moreton-Robinson
Imprint: University of Minnesota
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 140mm,
Spine: 38mm
Weight: 304g
ISBN: 9780816692163
ISBN 10: 0816692165
Series: Indigenous Americas
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 01 August 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General/trade
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Further / Higher Education
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: White Possession and Indigenous Sovereignty Matters Part I. Owning Property 1. I Still Call Australia Home: Indigenous Belonging and Place in a Postcolonizing Society 2. The House That Jack Built: Britishness and White Possession 3. Bodies That Matter on the Beach 4. Writing Off Treaties: Possession in the U.S. Critical Whiteness Literature Part II. Becoming Propertyless 5. Nullifying Native Title: A Possessive Investment in Whiteness 6. The High Court and the Yorta Yorta Decision 7. Leesa’s Story: White Possession in the Workplace 8. The Legacy of Cook’s Choice Part III. Being Property 9. Toward a New Research Agenda: Foucault, Whiteness, and Sovereignty 10. Writing Off Sovereignty: The Discourse of Security and Patriarchal White Sovereignty 11. Imagining the Good Indigenous Citizen: Race War and the Pathology of White Sovereignty 12. Virtuous Racial States: White Sovereignty and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Afterword Notes Publication History Index
Aileen Moreton-Robinson is professor of Indigenous studies at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and is director of the National Indigenous Research and Knowledges Network. She is author of <i>Talkin Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism</i> and editor of several books, including <i>Sovereign Subjects: Indigenous Sovereignty Matters.</i></p>
Reviews for The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty
""Aileen Moreton-Robinson brilliantly shows how systematically identifying whiteness with possession and dispossession deserves foregrounding in Indigenous studies.""—David Roediger, University of Kansas, author of Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All ""The White Possessive showcases the unique intellectual contribution of Aileen Moreton-Robinson, both within Australia and internationally. Prising apart concepts of race, ethnicity, and cultural difference, her book makes visible and accountable to patriarchal white subject of possession that subtends them.""—The International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies ""Moreton-Robinson provides her readers with an indispensable theoretical analysis with which they can (re)think the way in which the possessive logics of whiteness structure racialised populations, particularly Indigenous subjects, experiences of (non)belonging and displacement in contemporary settler colonial life.""—Sociology ""Most of the essays in the volume are on Australian Indigenous issues, but have relevance globally. This book provides many thought-provoking insights that could help bridge divides between scholars of indigeneity and those of whiteness.""—Tribal College Journal ""Moreton-Robinson provides important conceptual tools to think through how we interpret and contest settler sovereignty today and into the future.""—Antipode
- Winner of The White Possessive 2016
