Indigenous Heterogeneity

Rowse, Tim

doi:10.1080/1031461x.2014.946523

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“…For some scholars, Indigenous tourist experiences can be readily judged to be ‘appropriate’ or ‘inappropriate’ (Liljeblad, 2014). For others, tourism is a ‘liminal’ experience (Van Gennep, 1960; Heidegger, 1996; Hollinshead, 1998; Graburn, 2001; De Botton, 2002; Belhassen et al , 2008; Knudsen et al , 2016), even as it remains inevitably embedded within a socio‐political context typified by inequality (Lane and Waitt, 2001; Deutschlander and Miller, 2003; Jamal and Hill, 2004; Cole, 2007; Bresner, 2010; Bunten, 2010; Bennett et al , 2012; Rowse, 2014) The authors recognise the potential for Indigenous tourism to satisfy all of these divergent descriptors.…”

Section: Mutable Authencity In Indigenous Tourismmentioning

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An ‘authentic’ Aboriginal product: State marketing and the self‐fashioning of Indigenous experiences to Chinese tourists

Boag

Martin

Bell

2020

Australian J of Anthropology

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China's burgeoning outbound tourist market has become a priority for Australian tourism, with national and state tourism reports advocating for 'China-ready' marketing, policy and planning and increased industry training around Chinese consumer behaviour and preferences to capitalise on this market. However, studies demonstrate that Chinese tourists are generally not interested in Indigenous tourism experiences. Nevertheless, the state of Victoria is adamant about investing in Indigenous-themed tourism products which are considered appropriate for Chinese preferences in an attempt to attract tourists from this growing inbound market. This article presents a review of relevant state government policies relating to Indigenous tourism alongside a case study of the tourism experiences developed and provided by Gunditjmara people along the Budj Bim CulturalLandscape in southwest Victoria. We demonstrate the ways that notions of 'authenticity' continue to shape, and constrain, Indigenous economic engagement and participation via tourism, and discuss the impact of these notions on the provision of Indigenous tourism products and experiences for Chinese and other visitors. We argue that the marketing of Gunditjmara tourism to fluctuating market demand highlights the arbitrariness of Australian governments' policies 52 | BOAG et Al.

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Section: Mutable Authencity In Indigenous Tourismmentioning

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An ‘authentic’ Aboriginal product: State marketing and the self‐fashioning of Indigenous experiences to Chinese tourists

Boag

Martin

Bell

2020

Australian J of Anthropology

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“…Nonetheless, the fatalism of the settler colonial paradigm -whereby decolonization is by and large put beyond the realms of possibilityhas seen it come under considerable critique for reifying settler colonialism as a transhistorical meta-structure where colonial relations of domination are inevitable (Macoun and Strakosch, 2013: 435 ;Snelgrove et al, 2014: 9). Not only does Wolfe's ontology erase contingency, heterogeneity and (crucially) agency (Merlan, 1997;Rowse, 2014), but its polarized framework effectively 'puts politics to death' (Svirsky, 2014: 327). In response to such critiques, Wolfe (2013a: 213) suggests that 'the repudiation of binarism' may just represent a 'settler perspective '.…”

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“…On the one hand, Wolfe's vision of settler colonialism is effectively zero-sum, leaving little room for transformation beyond opposition -a critique that has been mounted against settler colonial studies more generally (e.g. Rowse, 2014;Snelgrove et al, 2014;Svirsky, 2014). On the other hand, the deep distaste for settler nationalism and commitment to preserve the settler/native binary in settler colonial studies -both of which make a great deal of sense in New World settingsleave certain issues under-examined in the Israeli-Palestinian context.…”

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Israel-Palestine and the Settler Colonial ‘Turn’: From Interpretation to Decolonization

Busbridge

2017

Theory, Culture & Society

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In recent years there has been a powerful resurgence of settler colonialism as an interpretive framework through which to understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Attached to the burgeoning field of settler colonial studies, this so-called ‘turn’ to settler colonialism has seen Israel-Palestine increasingly compared alongside New World white settler societies like Australia, Canada and the United States. In seeking to undercut the lens of exceptionalism through which the conflict has conventionally been viewed, the settler colonial paradigm has some important counter-hegemonic implications for reframing Israel-Palestine, not least of which is its prescription for decolonization. However, it is paradoxically in the context of decolonization that the limits of the settler colonial paradigm become most apparent. I argue that these limitations are connected to the dominance of Patrick Wolfe’s structural account of settler colonialism, which leaves very little room for transformation, and to the particular connotations settler colonial studies has acquired from the New World contexts in which it is most often articulated. This is particularly the case in Israel-Palestine, where these connotations preclude engagement with the national aspects of the conflict and leave under-examined the unique resonances of the settler/native distinction, which need reckoning with in any serious account of decolonization.

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“…Here Smith draws our attention to the correspondences between Baz Luhrmann's Australia and Herbert's novels, but also between Herbert's novels and the endless representations and reiterations of what Tim Rowse calls the 'Dying Native fantasy', so consistently central to settler imaginings of indigenous (settler) futures. 82 Fiona Probyn-Rapsey concludes that Herbert's '"son of the soil" nationalism' was not so far from the 'state-sanctioned future vision of a White Nation' advocated by the absorptionists, since 'both placed Aboriginal people at the source of white belonging'. 83 Yet whereas the absorptionist position leads towards settler acclimation through biological absorption, Herbert's nationalist teleology leads on the contrary towards settler indigenisation through miscegenation.…”

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Encountering Indigeneity: Xavier Herbert, ‘Inky’ Stephensen and the Problems of Settler Nationalism

Tout

2017

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The 1930s in Australia was a period marked by rising awareness of and attention to Australia’s ‘half-caste problem’. Released and promoted in tandem with the 1938 sesquicentenary of Australia’s settler colonisation, Xavier Herbert’s novel Capricornia appeared as a searing protest against the exclusion of so-called ‘half-castes’ from white Australia. The novel itself was published by the Publicist Publishing Company, platform for rationalist and businessman W.J. Miles and editor and polemicist P.R. ‘Inky’ Stephensen, both strict advocates of a racially pure white Australia. Yet together, Herbert and his patrons capitalised on the sesquicentenary, and the Day of Mourning protests they helped organise, to promote what they proclaimed the ‘Great Australian Novel’. This article reads Herbert’s racial understandings in relation to those of Stephensen, and reads them both in relation to the prevailing circumstances of 1930s Australia, as well as the underlying dynamics of settler colonialism. Whereas Stephensen subscribed to the ‘Aryan Aborigines’ hypothesis and emphasised Australia’s supposed racial purity, Herbert celebrated instead the potentiality of ‘Euraustralian’ hybridity. While these approaches are ostensibly at odds, this article argues instead that they share a common drive towards settler indigenisation and independence as their ultimate aims.

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Indigenous Heterogeneity

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An ‘authentic’ Aboriginal product: State marketing and the self‐fashioning of Indigenous experiences to Chinese tourists

An ‘authentic’ Aboriginal product: State marketing and the self‐fashioning of Indigenous experiences to Chinese tourists

Israel-Palestine and the Settler Colonial ‘Turn’: From Interpretation to Decolonization

Encountering Indigeneity: Xavier Herbert, ‘Inky’ Stephensen and the Problems of Settler Nationalism

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