Climate change and non-Indigenous belonging in postcolonial Australia Potter, Emily 2013, Climate change and non-Indigenous belonging in postcolonial Australia, Continuum, vol. 27, no. 1, Special Issue: Cultural Reorientations and Comparative Colonialities, pp. 30-40, doi: 10.1080/10304312.2013.737197. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Climate change and non-Indigenous belonging in postcolonial Australia Author(s) Potter, Emily orcid.org/0000-0002-4171-3002 Journal name Continuum Volume number 27 Issue number 1 Season Special Issue: Cultural Reorientations and Comparative Colonialities Start page 30 End page 40 Total pages 11 Publisher Routledge Place of publication Melbourne, Vic. Publication date 2013-01-01 ISSN 1030-4312 1469-3666 Summary The constitution of climate change as an ‘emergency’ invites an appeal to sovereign power that is troubling in the context of Australia’s colonial history. Climate change is an unsettling and dispossessing force that, while unprecedented in many ways, can be situated among a series of environmental and social crises that have shaped a discourse of anxious or insecure non-Indigenous belonging in this country. This discourse seeks to render non-Indigenous Australian place as secure and absolute, and understands environmental change as a threat to this goal. This threat appeals to an emergency framing, and in turn to a reassertion, in line with the insights of Agamben, of an exclusive sovereignty that rehearses the foundational dispossessions of colonization. At the same time, climate change is initiating new ways of conceptualizing human relations with place that challenge the value of sovereign status. It enacts realities that refuse a singular emergency and instead generate community from a reorientation of places, times and more-than-human relations. Thought in this way as a creative force that is shaping communities and environments, climate change becomes a source of critical insight for the possibilities of a decolonized future. Language eng DOI 10.1080/10304312.2013.737197 Indigenous content on Field of Research 200206 Globalisation and Culture Socio Economic Objective 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2013, Taylor & Francis Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30049966 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Communication and Creative Arts Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Wed, 19 Dec 2012, 14:00:47 EST Thu, 20 Dec 2012, 10:01:21 EST Thu, 20 Dec 2012, 10:29:13 EST Thu, 20 Dec 2012, 14:20:24 EST Thu, 20 Dec 2012, 14:23:20 EST Fri, 13 Jun 2014, 16:21:17 EST Wed, 21 Jan 2015, 11:23:54 EST Wed, 21 Jan 2015, 11:25:40 EST Tue, 03 Feb 2015, 13:20:04 EST Wed, 17 Aug 2016, 08:56:14 EST Tue, 06 Sep 2016, 20:17:15 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 2 times in TR Web of Science Cited 2 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 851 Abstract Views, 70 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Wed, 19 Dec 2012, 14:00:36 EST by Emily Potter