Unsettling the taken (for granted)

Howitt, Richard

doi:10.1177/0309132518823962

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“…As Liki (2015: 159) notes ‘paddling through canonized approaches and frames of thinking that pay scant attention to what matters to us can be an extremely lonely experience’. This paper articulates a decolonial process and analysis shared by geographers who focus on indigeneity and post‐colonialism (Howitt, 2020; Coombes et al ., 2014; Simmonds, 2011, 2016; Radcliffe, 2017, 2018, 2019). In this paper, I ask how the gendered politics of positionality work in Pacific geographies.…”

Section: Of Pace Power and Poetrymentioning

confidence: 99%

The audacity of the ocean: Gendered politics of positionality in the Pacific

Underhill‐Sem

2020

Singap J Trop Geogr

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Throughout the contemporary Pacific, relationships that indigeneity makes possible are emerging as celebrated resistance to post‐colonial development anxieties. In the process, lived experience heightens the commitment to decolonize thinking, language and practice in teaching and research. Not only because these imperatives are highly personalized but also because they are gendered and heavy with generational trauma. These gendered dynamics circulate around popular culture and imaginaries of Pacific paradise but also problematically around the challenges of long‐standing intolerances especially around gender and race. The paper asks how a gendered politics of positionality engages with emerging positionalities that uncritically allow for such intolerances. I touch on two ways in which colonial continuities of belittlement are often reinforced, but are also offering hopeful and careful decolonial scholarly futures. The first is the naming of the Pacific and the second is supervising women doctoral candidates from the Pacific. In this paper, the audacity of the ocean offers a metaphorical opportunity to carefully reconcile these tensions and provide trajectories for decolonial knowledge‐making. However, it also offers a material way of understanding the on‐going work with ‘tensions’ and disruptions in their ever present but changeable forms. Oceanic tropes and a feminist Oceanic audacity of embodied engagement in the Pacific offer dynamic and gendered intellectual agility which runs counter to the tropical imageries of languid indifference.black/is a state of mindlike the colour of an islandTeaiwa (2017)we sweat and cry salt water,so we know that the oceanis really in our bloodTeaiwa (2008)

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Section: Of Pace Power and Poetrymentioning

confidence: 99%

The audacity of the ocean: Gendered politics of positionality in the Pacific

Underhill‐Sem

2020

Singap J Trop Geogr

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“…Usefulness of course may be defined in various ways, and it would be wise to avoid a narrow instrumentalism (Orzeck, ). Such a rationale may be refined by referencing wider benefits—including a public need for education, for popular opinion to be challenged (Orzeck, ), unsettled (Howitt, ), and for knowledge to be pursued and produced for its own sake—and for a diversity of “publics”, recognising that academics themselves are a part of society.…”

Section: Academic Freedom—what It Is and Is Notmentioning

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Academic freedom and an invitation to promote its advancement

Bartel

2019

Geographical Research

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Academic freedom is under threat internationally. Several high profile incidents suggest that academic freedom is a principle neither well understood nor appreciated by key decision makers and stakeholders whom one might expect to champion it, be they in government or within the academy itself. Among those incidents are the arbitrary exercise of ministerial discretion to override the Australian Research Council expert peer review recommendations for allocation of funding, recent attacks on the credibility of academic publishing internationally, and the atrocious treatment of scholars by authoritarian regimes across the globe. In light of such developments, the membership of the Institute of Australian Geographers recently adopted a resolution that, inter alia, called on the Council of the Institute of Australian Geographers ‘not to be silent on the issue of attacks on critical scholarship, academic freedom and the integrity of academic procedures in higher education, research and publishing’. Given the complexity of the issues, this paper invites further discussion and debate on how Australian geography and geographers might better appreciate and advance academic freedom including via the promotion of scholarship that gives full effect to the principle.

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“…The founding assemblages of governmentality protected this rapid theft using legislation, courts, police, murderous vigilantes and irregulars, as well as discourses of public good, civilisation, and settlement (Haebich, ). Therefore, in the Australian context it was, and continues to be, a deceitful comfort and a denial to describe British invasion as settlement (Howitt, ). The Australian nation arguably remains colonial—one in which there has never been a formal treaty with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples—and British invasion continues to be celebrated via the marking of Australia Day on 26 January, the date of the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 and Governor Arthur Phillip's hoisting the British flag (Calma, ) .…”

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Land and housing as crucibles of racist nationalism: Asian Australians' experiences

Dunn

Blair

Bliuc

et al. 2018

Geographical Research

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Nationwide surveys in 2015–16 in Australia collected data on experiences of racism in various spheres of everyday life, including housing. Of 6,001 respondents, 843 were of an Asian birthplace or background, and 638 spoke an Asian language. These Asian Australians had double the rate of experience of racism than had other Australians, in the form of racist mistrust, disrespect, and name‐calling (70% vs 35%). When renting or buying a house, almost six in ten (58%) Asian‐born participants had experienced discrimination to some extent because of their culture or religion. While 81 per cent of non‐Asian Australians report there is no racism in housing, the proportion reporting this among the Asian‐born participants was only 42 per cent. Those born in Australia but with Asian parents have the same exposure to racism, whereas those with only one parent born in Asia had an exposure closer to those with no Asian connection. “Racial” appearance plays a role in the racism experienced in relation to buying or renting housing. Racism in such a context limits Asian Australians' access to space and curtails the making of non‐Anglo place, which leads to the conclusion that land and housing are crucibles of racist nationalism.

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Unsettling the taken (for granted)

Cited by 33 publications

References 104 publications

The audacity of the ocean: Gendered politics of positionality in the Pacific

The audacity of the ocean: Gendered politics of positionality in the Pacific

Academic freedom and an invitation to promote its advancement

Land and housing as crucibles of racist nationalism: Asian Australians' experiences

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