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dc.contributor.authorSoldatic, Karen
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T12:01:01Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T12:01:01Z
dc.date.created2016-06-19T19:30:33Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.citationSoldatic, K. 2015. Postcolonial reproductions: disability, indigeneity and the formation of the white masculine settler state of Australia. Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture. 21 (1): pp. 53-68.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17315
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13504630.2014.995352
dc.description.abstract

© 2015. There has been a growing debate within the broad field of postcolonial scholarship which seeks to challenge both its territorial boundaries with the advent of globalization and its limitations when applied to the realm of white-settler societies. The debate has been extremely fruitful in situating emerging scholarship that seeks to extend postcoloniality, its theoretical framing, and the internal processes of social categorization for peoples caught within the nation-state's territorial sphere. Unfortunately, disability and indigeneity remain largely absent from these fresh debates; or when included, are explored as singular fields of analytical inquiry with little intersectional dialogue. With this paper, I aim to extend these nascent debates by critically engaging with both disability and indigeneity as two interlocking sites of (post)colonial nation-state power. To explicate this argument, my analysis focuses on a key historical moment in the Australian experience – the formation of the colonial white-settler society of Australia in its early years (1901–1920s), comparing and contrasting the systems of administrative management of disability and indigeneity. In doing so, the paper reveals the deep materialities of white, able-bodied, masculine, (post)colonial settler rule that bring together disability and indigeneity via gender reproductive controls. The conclusion reflects on the transformative effects of managing transgressive bodies and minds under the white able-bodied settler state and the potential this opens to negotiate practices of solidarity.

dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.titlePostcolonial reproductions: disability, indigeneity and the formation of the white masculine settler state of Australia
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume21
dcterms.source.number1
dcterms.source.startPage53
dcterms.source.endPage68
dcterms.source.issn1350-4630
dcterms.source.titleSocial Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture
curtin.departmentCentre for Human Rights Education
curtin.accessStatusFulltext not available


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