The Trouble with this Canoe
The Trouble with this Canoe
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The New Platform PapersVolume
2Pagination
51-66Location
Sydney, N.S.W.ISSN
2653-3308Language
EnglishResearch statement
Background The canoe project began in 2018 as a study of Indigenous collective dynamics and relational economies, however the staff of NIKERI did not engage with the project in the hands-on way that had been anticipated, and the researcher continued alone, so the results showed the opposite of the null hypothesis. The ongoing analysis of the work yielded insights into growth-based settler economies, the positioning of the Aboriginal neo-liberal subject in the marketplace, and the structural mechanisms of pricing, value, labour and land and art as capital, as well as speculation on these in finance and the repercussions for land and community Contribution The analysis of contemporary economic and financial systems, the evaluation of catastrophic risk and the reconfiguration of decolonial studies undertaken in this project has given rise to multiple texts, including the book 'Right Story Wrong Story' and the New Platform Papers piece, which also formed the basis of a symposium. The analysis also informed a project with a New York based private equity firm to create a more reliable system for measuring and verifying biodiversity offsets. Significance This work has been positioned alongside Noel Pearson's and Wesley Enoch's writing on the asymmetrical relationships between the settler economy, the arts and Aboriginal affairs, at a time when the possibility of constitutional change, Treaty and an Indigenous voice to parliament is being debated nationally. While many are invoking structural inequality in this debate, this is a rare contribution that names exactly what those structural mechanisms are, and how they are impossible to move or change without catastrophic disruption to the extractive systems that make Australia a first world country.Publication classification
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