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Welcome? is a podcast telling stories about colonised landscapes, and the people who meet in them. In this series, we talk about the difficult work of relationships between colonised, coloniser, and the many who fall outside of these categories, in three different contexts across the globe: Australia, Papua New Guinea and Kenya. We tell stories from our work as academic researchers, stories about real people in real places. In Naarm (Melbourne), where we are based, you often see ‘Wominjeka’ translated as ‘welcome’. It’s a Wurundjeri [link to acknowledgement page?] word – the language of the Indigenous custodians of this land - but welcome isn’t a precise enough translation. It actually means ‘come with purpose’. It’s communicating something deeper than just ‘come on in, make yourself at home’ – and it definitely doesn’t mean ‘you’re welcome to something’ – to land, to people, to places, to resources. And it doesn’t mean you’re welcome forever. In this podcast, we are asking the questions: who is welcome and where? Who does the welcoming? And on what and whose terms? And, of course, who is not welcome? Deciding to make our title a question – it’s intentional. Our stories help us explore different ways of accepting a welcome, offering one, refusing one, or being alert to being unwelcome, and what we can do with such a situation. We invite you to join us as we try to work out what that question mark after ‘welcome’ might mean for us, and for you.Research statement
Background Recent debates about Indigenous constitutional recognition and treaty, and conflicts between Northern and Southern actors in the context of development, point to the potential for the ‘politics of recognition’ to reproduce, rather than ameliorate, colonial power relations. Important critiques of recognition and its politics have been made in recent years, particularly from within North America, by indigenous activists and scholars (Coulthard 2014, Simpson 2014). There is an urgent need to understand the implications of these critiques for settler colonial contexts beyond North America. This need applies not only at the level of policy, but at the more human level of relationships between ordinary people living with coloniality and legacies of colonialism. Contribution The stories in this podcast explore practical ways in which colonised and coloniser relate to each-other in ways that both exceed and affirm the lens of recognition. The podcast form, using story-telling and host explication, generates a new conceptual map of modes of relationality that is more global in scope, and richer in complexity. Utilising documentary sound recordings and voices of real people, brings to life the theoretical contributions of our project and renders it accessible at the level of lived experience between ordinary people living with coloniality and its legacies. Its individual and ‘quiet’ nature, invites a safe space for the kind of deep and confronting reflections we hope our research will trigger. Significance Identity politics is intensifying in visceral, often confronting and increasingly counter-productive, divisive ways in contemporary life. Reckoning with this in podcast format allows audiences to safely contemplate multiple ways through conflict and tension. Positive reception of the series displayed in podcast-platform reviews, social media engagement, and use of the series in teaching and learning. This project is part of a $497,807 ARC Discovery IndigenousPublication classification
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6 x Podcast episodes, available at: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/welcome/id1538651219 https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5hY2FzdC5jb20vcHVibGljL3Nob3dzLzYwMjQ2NjhlOWM3ZDllNjFkMjE1ODExNw https://open.spotify.com/show/5HWg4RWpA6ECTrBJ5dIqq6 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ1Kf-OKCDbtKScR8vcWNsAEditor/Contributor(s)
Bellette A, Stead V, Dalley CEvent
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