Settler colonialism and (re)conciliation : frontier violence, affective performances, and imaginative refoundings / Penelope Edmonds (Australian Research Council Future Fellow, University of Tasmania, Australia)
Introduction: Performing (re)conciliation in settler societies -- 1. [United States] "Polishing the chain of friendship" : Two Row Wampum Renewal celebrations and matters of history -- 2. [United States] "This is our hearts!" : Unruly reenactments and unreconciled pasts in Lakota country -- 3. [Australia] "Walking Together" for Reconciliation : From the Sydney Harbour Bridge Walk to the Myall Creek Massacre Commemorations -- 4. [Australia] "Our history is not the last word" : Sorry Day at Risdon Cove and "Black Line" survival ceremony, Tasmania -- 5. [Aotearoa New Zealand] "We we did not sign a treaty...we did not surrender!" : Contesting the Consensus Politics of the Treaty of Waitangi in Aotearoa New Zealand -- Conclusions
Summary
"This book explores reconciliation's performative life and its discontents in settler societies. It explores the affective refoundings of the settler state and the radical reimagining of its alternatives by Indigenous peoples and allied others, and, in particular the way the past is creatively mobilized, reworked and enlisted in the name of social transformation within a new global paradigm of reconciliation and the 'age of apology' ... taking selected case studies across the postcolonial settler societies of the United States of America, Australia, and Aotearoa New Zealand"--Introduction
