Developing a Decolonisation Practice for Settler Colonisers: A Case Study from Aotearoa New Zealand

Content Provider	Scilit
Author	Huygens, Ingrid
Copyright Year	2011
Description	Lorenzo Veracini suggests that the coloniser does not yet know 'how settler decolonisation should appear'. I offer in response an account of how settler decolonisation has appeared in Aotearoa New Zealand and developed over the past three decades, particularly within the field of what I call 'education work'. This article reports a case study of how Pakeha and other non-indigenous groups began to contribute their own stream of decolonisation work to the efforts of indigenous Maori. Pakeha decolonisation practice has developed through continual adjustments in theorising the local situation in response to Maori analysis, and through undertaking interventions co-intentionally with Maori. Specific features of a Pakeha decolonisation practice, as I have experienced it, include (i) revisiting history, (ii) responding emotionally, (iii) undertaking collective cultural work, and (iv) working toward mutually agreed relationships with Maori. Framing each of these as types of decolonisation 'work' – ideological, emotional, cultural and constitutional work – I suggest how a decolonisation practice for settler colonisers could appear.
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Ending Page	81
Page Count	29
Starting Page	53
ISSN	2201473X
e-ISSN	18380743
DOI	10.1080/2201473x.2011.10648812
Journal	Settler Colonial Studies
Issue Number	2
Volume Number	1
Language	English
Publisher	Informa UK Limited
Publisher Date	2011-01-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Cultural Studies New Zealand Indigenous Undertaking Pakeha Aotearoa Settler Colonisers Decolonisation Practice
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Demography History Law Anthropology Cultural Studies