Interrogating Postcolonial Guilt: Chinese Australian Responses to the Voice Referendum.
In Australia and other settler colonial states, guilt is postulated as being a psychological legacy of colonisation. The guilt-driven narrative has dominated academic and political discourses of reconciliation, especially during the Voice referendum in 2023. However, the distinction between "in-grou...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Australian Studies Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 366 - 382 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2026
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