Settler Colonialism and (Re)conciliation: Frontier Violence, Affective Performances, and Imaginative Refoundings

by Penelope Edmonds

This book examines the performative life reconciliation and its discontents in settler societies. It explores the refoundings of the settler state and reimaginings of its alternatives, as well as the way the past is mobilized and reworked in the name of social transformation within a new global paradigm of reconciliation and the 'age of apology'.

269 pages, Hardcover

First published March 16, 2016

Reviews

[Josh Reid]

Interesting examination of state-sponsored reconciliation events, paired with Indigenous responses or rejections. At times, though, I found Edmonds's writing to be a little too cluttered with the theoretical explanations of other scholars.