Questioning Indigenous-Settler Relations

Sarah Maddison is an Associate Professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne.Sarah co-founded and co-directs the Indigenous Settler Relations Collaboration, a research unit in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne.Her areas of research expertise include Indigenous-Settler relations, reconciliation and conflict transformation, Indigenous political culture, and social movements.Sana Nakata is a Torres Strait Islander, who has lived and worked on Wurundjeri land all her adult life. Trained as a lawyer and political theorist, her research is centered upon developing an approach for thinking politically about childhood in ways that improve the capacity of adult decision-makers to act in their interests. Her current Australian Research Council Discovery Indigenous project looks at representations of children in Australian political controversies, with particular focus upon Indigenous Australian children and childasylum seeker.

• 1.Registers of relationality in Indigenous-settler politics.- 2.Separatism as a mode of relations: Indigenous resurgence and nationhood in the 21st century.- 3.F.W. Albrecht, Assimilation Policy and the Lutheran experiment in Aboriginal Education, 1950s-1960s.- 4.The price of the promise: Contemporary Indigenous-settler politics in future tense.- 5.Australian Settler colonialism and the Indigenous development assemblage.- 6.Aboriginal self-determination in child protection.- 7.Implementation as a site for Indigenous-settler relations.- 8.Comparing Indigenous-Settler relations through a policy prism: Australian and Canadian approaches to supporting First Nation ownership of renewable energy infrastructure.- 9.The Illusion of Inclusion: The tension between what we believe ought to be and the reality of how things are.-10.Treaties, Uluru and the Liberal State: reframing debates about sovereignty, citizenship, democracy and self-determination.- 11.Indigenous Australians andinformal networks of trust on social media.- 12.“@IndigenousX and The Guardian Australia: Prospects for decolonizing Indigenous news?.- 13.Australia becoming, Australia Dreaming: The calibrated equilibrium.-14.Disrupting the Indigenous-settler binary: Discussion in response to Mary Graham.