Justice

This stream of work explores resistance to the violence of settler colonialism. It focusses on work that centres practices of abolition and transformation, seeking to undo and rebuild social and political institutions in ways that centre Indigenous sovereignties, prioritise community control, and contribute to the thriving of Indigenous Lifeworlds. This stream prioritises work that collapses the distinctions between academia and activism to work toward more just futures on this Country and elsewhere.

This stream does not obviate the inherent tension produced through doing transformative work within and to (colonial) institutions. but rather sees this conflict as both necessary and (sometimes) productive, carving space for complexity and incommensurability. It understands always the ways the burdens of political transformation are unevenly distributed to attend to the very different obligations, responsibilities, and perspectives of bodies in the academy. Drawing on Indigenous theories of positionality and centring Indigenous sovereignties, this stream explicitly navigates these tensions with sensitivity, care and an unwavering commitment to justice.