The Limits of Settler Colonial Reconciliation: Non-Indigenous People and the Responsibility to Engage

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Non-Indigenous People and the Limits of Settler Colonial Reconciliation....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Beyond Colonial Completion: Arendt, Settler Colonialism and the End of Politics....Pages 15-33
Facing the Settler Colonial Present....Pages 35-48
Two Kinds of Recognition: The Politics of Engagement in Settler Societies....Pages 49-66
With Whom Do We Reconcile?....Pages 67-81
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Colonising White Innocence: Complicity and Critical Encounters....Pages 85-102
Attitudinal Barriers to Reconciliation in Australia....Pages 103-118
Cultivating Sympathy and Reconciliation: The Importance of Sympathetic Response....Pages 119-135
‘You Can’t Have Reconciliation Without Justice’: How Non-Indigenous Participants in Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Process Understand Their Roles and Goals....Pages 137-158
The Poetics of Non-Indigenous Reflexive Self-awareness: Strategies of Embodiment and Delegation in Focus Group Discussions in Australia....Pages 159-176
Truth, Sharing and Hearing: The Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Challenge of Civic Engagement....Pages 177-191
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
The Spaces of Dangerous Freedom: Disrupting Settler Colonialism....Pages 195-212
Reconciliation and the Quest for Economic Sameness....Pages 213-230
Silence or Deafness? Education and the Non-Indigenous Responsibility to Engage....Pages 231-247
The Limits of Reconciliation in Criminal Sentencing....Pages 249-269
What Is at Stake in Constitutional Recognition?....Pages 271-289
Back Matter....Pages 291-295