The White Possessive: Property, Power, And Indigenous Sovereignty (Indigenous Americas),Used

Product DescriptionThe White Possessive explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless. Focusing on the Australian Aboriginal context, Aileen MoretonRobinson questions current race theory in the first world and its preoccupation with foregrounding slavery and migration. The nation, she argues, is socially and culturally constructed as a white possession.MoretonRobinson reveals how the core values of Australian national identity continue to have their roots in Britishness and colonization, built on the disavowal of Indigenous sovereignty. Whiteness studies literature is central to MoretonRobinsons reasoning, and she shows how blackness works as a white epistemological tool that bolsters the social production of whitenessdisplacing Indigenous sovereignties and rendering them invisible in a civil rights discourse, thereby sidestepping thorny issues of settler colonialism.Throughout this critical examination MoretonRobinson proposes a bold new agenda for critical Indigenous studies, one that involves deeper analysis of how the prerogatives of white possession function within the role of disciplines.Review'Aileen MoretonRobinson brilliantly shows how systematically identifying whiteness with possession and dispossession deserves foregrounding in Indigenous studies.'David Roediger, University of Kansas, author of Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All'The White Possessive showcases the unique intellectual contribution of Aileen MoretonRobinson, both within Australia and internationally. Prising apart concepts of race, ethnicity, and cultural difference, her book makes visible and accountable to patriarchal white subject of possession that subtends them.'The International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies'MoretonRobinson provides her readers with an indispensable theoretical analysis with which they can (re)think the way in which the possessive logics of whiteness structure racialised populations, particularly Indigenous subjects, experiences of (non)belonging and displacement in contemporary settler colonial life.'Sociology'Most of the essays in the volume are on Australian Indigenous issues, but have relevance globally. This book provides many thoughtprovoking insights that could help bridge divides between scholars of indigeneity and those of whiteness.'Tribal College Journal'MoretonRobinson provides important conceptual tools to think through how we interpret and contest settler sovereignty today and into the future.'AntipodeAbout the AuthorAileen MoretonRobinson is professor of Indigenous studies at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and is director of the National Indigenous Research and Knowledges Network. She is author of Talkin Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism and editor of several books, including Sovereign Subjects: Indigenous Sovereignty Matters.