Nationhood

This stream of work explores the fragility and incoherence of settler nationalism, examines questions of belonging and identity, foregrounds transnational solidarities both in defence of and against the settler nation, and seeks to understand the multiple dimensions and harms of associated politics of race and identity. It focuses on new ways of researching and understanding that will diagnose the disorders of ‘the nation’ in its present moment, to highlight its contradictions to contribute to its undoing. It seeks to identify and analyse deep-seated connections between settler colonialism, settler nationalism, and neoliberalism.

This stream further explores resurgent projects of Indigenous nation-building as well as the possibilities, complexities, and difficulties of Indigenous–state relations. It understands Australian settler nationalism as a regional and simultaneously global project, manifesting itself through political structures, discourses, histories, and labour flows that extend beyond the mainland and throughout the Asia Pacific. It highlights Indigenous transnational solidarities and relationalities as sites of radical potentiality that further Indigenous resurgence and undermine the legitimacy of settler nationhood.

For more information contact convener, Dr Dan Tout d.tout@federation.edu.au.