Introduction: Performing (Re)Conciliation in Settler Societies
Notes Introduction: Performing (Re)conciliation in Settler Societies 1. Elizabeth Strakosch and Alissa Macoun, ‘The Vanishing Endpoint of Settler Colonialism’, Arena Journal 37/38 (2012): 40–62. 2. Patrick Wolfe, Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology (London, Cassell, 1999); Patrick Wolfe, ‘Structure and Event: Settler Colonialism, Time and the Question of Genocide’, in A. D. Moses (ed.), Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation and Subaltern Resistance in World History (New York: Berghahn Books, 2008). 3. The ‘Let’s Shake: Handshakes for Reconciliation’ participatory and public art events were created, conceived and organized by Melbourne-based artist Karen Casey. The project came about during the development of a perma- nent artwork promoting reconciliation commissioned by the University of Adelaide in 2006. Inspired by the notion of the space contained within a handshake, the idea was conceived by Karen Casey and developed in collabo- ration with sculptor Darryl Cowie. 4. In Australia, the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation was established under the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation Act 1991 and was charged with the mission to ‘promote a process of reconciliation between Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and the wider Australian community’. See Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation Act 1991, Section 5. In 2001, the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation was replaced with a new private body, Recon- ciliation Australia. Reconciliation Australia is the current peak national organization charged with building and promoting reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. See Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, Reconciliation: Australia’s Challenge. Final Report of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation to the Prime Minister and the Commonwealth Parliament (2000), chap.
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