Conference paper
Reconnecting: Women and Reconciliation
Proceedings of the International Conference on Racisms in the New World Order, pp.10-21
International Conference on Racisms in the New World Order: Realities of Culture, Colour and Identity Conference, 2005 (Coolum, Australia, 08-Dec-2005–09-Dec-2005)
University of the Sunshine Coast, Centre for Multicultural and Community Development
2006
Abstract
This paper highlights the activist and intellectual work of women in relation to reconciliation and emphasises the importance of woman's perspectives in considering the nature and purpose of reconciliation. The paper is the outcome of our participation in a women's gathering where we conducted interviews with seven women activists, six of whom were of Indigenous background. Reconciliation in this context was not a straightforward set of practices but a way of living which reconnects country, kin, culture, sharing, knowing and learning. If reconciliation is to assist women in their efforts to address the contemporary effects of colonial dispossession, it must take heed of the knowledge and pedagogical work which this paper demonstrates are already at large. We understand that research undertaken with Aboriginal people involving the production of a representational resource, no matter how well intentioned, must grapple with the politics of representation concerning who can speak for whom. By way of partial solution to this problematic we adopt a methodological approach which is sensitive and mindful of the complex and often contradictory ways in which women are positioned and position themselves in representational practices and meaning making.
Details
- Title
- Reconnecting: Women and Reconciliation
- Authors
- Lucinda Aberdeen (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Social SciencesJulie M Matthews (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Contributors
- Narayan Gopalkrishnan (Editor)Hurriyet Babacan (Editor)
- Publication details
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Racisms in the New World Order, pp.10-21
- Conference details
- International Conference on Racisms in the New World Order: Realities of Culture, Colour and Identity Conference, 2005 (Coolum, Australia, 08-Dec-2005–09-Dec-2005)
- Publisher
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Centre for Multicultural and Community Development
- Date published
- 2006
- ISBN
- 0975191357
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2006 University of the Sunshine Coast, Centre for Multicultural and Community Development. Reproduced here with permission.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449669002621
- Output Type
- Conference paper
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