A plethora of intentions: genocide, settler colonialism and historical consciousness in Australia and Britain

Docker, John

doi:10.1080/13642987.2014.987952

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“…However, change in perspectives can be seen through those tracking the historical records and accounts (Brook and Kohen 1991;Brook 1999;Djoric 2011;Docker 2015;Karskens 2010Karskens , 2020Reynolds 1987;Tobin 1999), the geographic knowledges (ACF 2020;Ashton 2000;Currie and Willoughby City Council 2008), core Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing (Moreton-Robinson 2015; Watson et al 2014;Watson 2015), and many other sources. This tracking shows a continuing thread that entwines the Presences (as more-than-humans) across times, the places across geographies, and the people across events.…”

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“Who’d Have Thought?”: Unravelling Ancestors’ Hidden Histories and Their Impact on Dharug Ngurra Presences, Places and People

Rey

2023

Genealogy

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As a means of opening the lid on transgenerational silencing—which was a survival strategy for thousands of Indigenous families against intended cultural genocide—while balancing the place of auto/biography in that journey, this paper focuses on the impact of Ancestors’ hidden histories and how the discovery of those histories drives complex identifications when woven with Presences, places, and people on Dharug Ngurra/Country. Using my own family’s recently uncovered early colonial Ancestral storying, histories that involve Dharug traditional custodian, African slave, and Anglo characters, some as First Fleet arrivals, the paper considers the place of auto/biography as a form of agency that brings past into presence, and which, in turn, opens opportunities to heal, decolonise, and transform Dharug and, more broadly, Indigenous communities, their knowledges, practices, and ontologies. When this activation involves most of the metropolis known as Sydney, Australia, we recognise its transformative potential to change non-Indigenous people’s perspectives. When we recognise auto/biography as a form of ‘truth-telling’, it allows a space to re-story relationality, both human and other-than-human, and restores Indigenous presence into Ngurra for biodiverse justice in a climate-changing world. Addressing these matters through poetic multimedia allows a place of safety between the pain and the healing.

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“Who’d Have Thought?”: Unravelling Ancestors’ Hidden Histories and Their Impact on Dharug Ngurra Presences, Places and People

Rey

2023

Genealogy

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“…Regardless of which foreign power (British, French, Spanish, Chinese, Por-tuguese…) was responsible for invading Indigenous and Traditional Peoples lands and waterways, the pathway to asserting foreign sovereignty has followed a repeated narrative. Separation of the generations is often a prominent part of colonisation and is a recognised form of genocide (Docker 2015;Krieken 1999;Schimmel 2005). By doing this, the transmission of intergenerational knowledge is interrupted, resulting in a loss of identity and key cultural responsibilities to land and water.…”

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Empowering her guardians to nurture our Ocean’s future

Fischer

Maxwell

Nuunoq

et al. 2021

Rev Fish Biol Fisheries

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Coastal Indigenous and Traditional communities are starting to see changes to their lives from climate change, whether this is from species range changes or displacement from land changes. For many of these communities, the ability to adequately adapt to these changes is limited by the governance structures they are required to live within, which differ from their customary practices and culture. In November 2019, a group of Indigenous and Traditional Peoples, attended the Future Seas 2030 workshop and discussed the consequences of climate change, the biggest barriers for their communities, and barriers for using traditional knowledge in order to contribute towards a more sustainable future that in the end will benefit all of earth’s people. The aim of this workshop was to highlight and give a voice to the various backgrounds and real-life situations impacting on some of the world’s Indigenous and Traditional communities whose connection with the oceans and coasts have been disrupted. This paper presents these issues of oppression, colonisation, language and agency, making it difficult for these groups to contribute to the current management of oceans and coasts, and asks scientists and practitioners in this space to be allies and enable the needed shift to earth’s guardians taking a leading role in nurturing her for our future.

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“…However, permission can also adopt a more material form by being converted into laws that tolerate and/or incentivize discrimination, injustice, and violence. Examples of these laws include the declaration of martial law (in Tasmania, 1828) (Docker, 2014: 78; Madley, 2004), the Act for the Government and Protection of the Indians (California, 1850) (Madley, 2008: 312), the Act to Prevent the Sale of Fire-arms and Ammunition to Indians (California, 1852) (Madley, 2008: 313), the many National Socialist laws designed and oriented to promote the ‘exclusion of specific groups within the population’ (Nolzen, 2005: 517–18).…”

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Permission, obedience, and continuities: A contribution to the sociological theory of genocidal processes

Leiva

2020

Journal of Sociology

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This article presents a theoretical reflection on genocidal processes. In the first place, we will propose the compatibility of the paradigm of permission with the paradigm of obedience, which would allow us to talk about tolerated genocidal acts, encouraged genocidal acts, and actively pursued genocidal acts. As we open up to the paradigm of permission this would lead us to challenge the explanations which regard genocidal processes as ruptures from civilization, from the moral order, and from the logic in everyday life in modern societies. It will be argued, in second place, that a paradigm of continuities would allow us to explore genocidal processes in a more accurate way. We will go on, then, in our third section, to the details of three processes which operate both in genocidal processes and in everyday life in modern societies: the categorization and construction of ‘others’, the construction of weakness, and the construction of superfluity.

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A plethora of intentions: genocide, settler colonialism and historical consciousness in Australia and Britain

Cited by 13 publications

References 3 publications

“Who’d Have Thought?”: Unravelling Ancestors’ Hidden Histories and Their Impact on Dharug Ngurra Presences, Places and People

“Who’d Have Thought?”: Unravelling Ancestors’ Hidden Histories and Their Impact on Dharug Ngurra Presences, Places and People

Empowering her guardians to nurture our Ocean’s future

Permission, obedience, and continuities: A contribution to the sociological theory of genocidal processes

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