In 2023, Australians rejected a plan to change the constitution and give greater political rights to Indigenous people. A few weeks later, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke performed a Maori haka after delivering her first speech as a newly elected member of the New Zealand Parliament. Lastly, in May 2024, following a controversial voting reform, protests and riots broke out in the French-Pacific territory of New Caledonia.
These are all instances of the contemporary dynamic of Australian and Pacific Indigenous movements in the struggle for recognition. Our course will explore ongoing tensions in the region and put them into historical perspective. We will see how indigenous voices, despite facing continuing institutional racism, are now rewriting classic narratives of discovery and colonisation, and reshaping spaces of knowledge production like museums. As the Pacific Islands are expected to face the dramatic consequences of climate change and damages to the environment, we will also discuss the key role which indigenous knowledges and worldviews have to play in current debates.
These are all instances of the contemporary dynamic of Australian and Pacific Indigenous movements in the struggle for recognition. Our course will explore ongoing tensions in the region and put them into historical perspective. We will see how indigenous voices, despite facing continuing institutional racism, are now rewriting classic narratives of discovery and colonisation, and reshaping spaces of knowledge production like museums. As the Pacific Islands are expected to face the dramatic consequences of climate change and damages to the environment, we will also discuss the key role which indigenous knowledges and worldviews have to play in current debates.
- 教師: CRISTIN Kevin