Key terms from the readings by Rosie Welch

Browning

rosie_welch — 2024-07-31 23:37:32 UTC

Replacement

2024-07-31 23:39:35 UTC

Replacing First Australians with settlers

Replacement

2024-07-31 23:40:03 UTC

"...the settler ultimately comes to replace the Native." (Tuck and Fernandez, 2013, p.76).

Essentialism (p.79)

2024-07-31 23:41:01 UTC

An idea that certain traditional concepts, ideals, and skills are essential to society.

White supremacy

2024-07-31 23:42:09 UTC

"...is supported and enacted through settler colonialism." (Tuck and Fernandez, 2013, p.80).

Multiculturalism

2024-07-31 23:44:59 UTC

how it operates to promote the narratives and the claims of the descendants of slaves and settlers of color at the expense of Indigenous people

Replacement.

bper0029 — 2024-07-31 23:47:02 UTC

Patrick Wolfe (2006) observes that settler colonialism’s logic of elimination requires the removal of Indigenous peoples of a territory, “but not [just] in any particular way” (p. 402): by any means necessary. This includes not only homicide, but also state-sanctioned miscegenation, the issuing of individual land titles, native citizenship, child abduction, religious conversion, reprogramming (via missions or boarding schools), and myriad forms of assimilation; again “settler colonialism destroys to replace” (p. 388). It is this preoccupation with replacement to which we attend in this article.

Lorenzo Veracini (2011) observes that within settler colonialism, settlers and the settler state must continuously disavow the existence and presence of Indigenous peoples and Indigenous accounts and histories of land.

Settler coloniality is typified by a “persistent drive to ultimately supersede the conditions of its operation,” in order to “cover its tracks,” and “effectively repress, co-opt, and extinguish indigenous alterities, and productively manage ethnic diversity” (ibid., p. 3).

Refusal

bper0029 — 2024-07-31 23:49:19 UTC

One of the core reasons that each of the interventions we have described above has failed to interrupt settler colonialism and settler colonial replacement is that each has tried to make powerful shifts without alienating white settlers. In part, this is because of complaints by white settlers, such as “well, now what am I supposed to do?” and “how will I fit into this?” The expectation is that any viable alternative frame will account for the needs of the settler, address their anxieties, and assure them that nothing is going to require them to change or disrupt their lives.

Insofar as these and other interventions try to accommodate the affect of the settler, they cannot succeed in reshaping or reimagining curriculum studies. What is needed is a discourse of refusal, refusing to require that new works in curriculum studies soothe settler anxieties. There must be work inside curriculum studies that dis-invests in settler futurity, that refuses to intervene, that observes a writ of “do not resuscitate.” This refusal is not just a no, it is what is needed to generate work that is useful to us. But it is also not an invitation, it is an exaction. We exact expropriation; to speak without explication; to claim without settler colonial justification; to refuse any response or allegation.

Crritical Race Theory

2024-07-31 23:51:28 UTC

Critical race theory understands racism ‘not as isolated instances of conscious bigoted decision-making, but as larger, systemic, structural, and cultural, as deeply psychologically and socially ingrained’.