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ItemNo Preview AvailableMapping the spatial politics of Australian settler colonialism(ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2023-04)
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ItemWhose politics and which science? Rethinking the discipline in the context of Australian settler colonial relationships(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2019-07-03)In the United Kingdom and America, political scientists are involved in increasingly intense conversations about the implication of the discipline in racial and colonial hierarchies. As a recent volume by Bhambra, Gebrial and Nisancioglu begins, ‘the call to decolonise univeristies across the global north has gained particular traction in recent years’ (2018, 1). In the contemporary ‘post-race’ world, these interventions insist on the importance of naming and challenging ongoing inequalities and role of disciplinary knowledge in maintaining them. In 2016, Kennan Ferguson asked in Perspectives on Politics ‘Why Does Political Studies Hate American Indians?’, and in 2018, two key edited volumes were published: Dismantling Race in Higher Education edited by Arday and Mirza, and the Bhambra, Gebrial and Nisancioglu volume cited above (Decolonising the University). Most recently, Political Studies Review published two articles on the need for and possibilities of decolonising political science pedagogy in the British context of empire and race (Begum and Saina 2019; Emejulu 2019). The chair of the Political Studies Association of the UK responded in the same issue, acknowledging that ‘these two pieces challenge the discipline to be better at inclusivity’ and that ‘this issue is a key concern for political science’ (Wilson 2019, 207). ...