Decolonizing Solidarity

Description

In this highly original and much-needed book, Clare Land interrogates the

often fraught endeavours of activists from colonial backgrounds seeking to

be politically supportive of Indigenous struggles. Blending key theoretical

and practical questions, Land argues that the predominant impulses which

drive middle-class settler activists to support Indigenous people cannot

lead to successful alliances and meaningful social change unless they are

significantly transformed through a process of both public political action

and critical self-reflection. Based on a wealth of in-depth, original

research, and focussing in particular on Australia, where – despite

strident challenges – the vestiges of British law and cultural power have

restrained the nation''s emergence out of colonising dynamics, Decolonizing

Solidarities provides a vital resource for those involved in Indigenous

activism and scholarship.