Indigenous citizenship and the historical imagination

Tim Rowse

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-53529-6_8

Indigenous citizenship and the historical imagination

Tim Rowse

Western Sydney University

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The problem of the nation’s moral continuity must be resolved in any Australian statement of apology to Indigenous Australians, if they are to be reimagined as citizens of the nation. This chapter compares several Australian statements from members of Australia’s political elite, showing some of the ways that a nation and its victims/citizens were narratively configured in the 1990s. The chapter then turns to several Indigenous approaches to narrating the national and the personal past, illustrating that Indigenous standpoints vary by generation and by orientations to Christianity.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Citizenship in Transnational Perspective: Australia, Canada, and New Zealand
Editors	Jatinder Mann
Place of Publication	Switzerland
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	159-174
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319535296
ISBN (Print)	9783319535289
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53529-6_8
Publication status	Published - 2017

Keywords

Aboriginal Australians
Australia
apologies
citizenship
indigenous peoples
social integration

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