Truth-telling about a settler-colonial legacy: decolonizing possibilities?
In 2017, the Uluru Statement calling for Voice, Treaty and Truth was released by Australia's Referendum Council. The Uluru Statement calls for a Makarrata Commission to oversee a process of 'agreement-making' and 'truth-telling'. I argue that it was in the regional dialogues held by the Referendum C...
| Publicado en: | Postcolonial Studies Vol. 26; no. 4; pp. 540 - 557 |
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