- Title
- Performing the bounds of responsibility
- Creator
- Berger, Karen
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/197345
- Identifier
- vital:18838
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.3390/h10040112
- Identifier
- ISSN:2076-0787
- Abstract
- This paper investigates border-making dynamics in the two political arenas where my subjectivity is most acutely implicated across time—the Jewish Holocaust (as an intergenerational victim) and the Aboriginal genocide (as an unwitting beneficiary). Albeit that there are many differences between the drivers of antisemitism and racism against Indigenous Australians, I investigate both of these racist structures through the lens of border-thinking as theorised by Walter Mignolo as a method of decolonisation (2006). The article has been formatted as an example of discursive border-crossing by juxtaposing theoretical ideas (particularly inspired by Zygmunt Bauman and Deborah Bird Rose) with interjections from my personal journal. I explore my own performative storytelling as a means for me to take responsibility to question power structures, acknowledge injustice, and to enact the potential for ethical dialogue between myself and others. This responsibility gestures to the possibility of border crossing as an ‘act of liberation’ that resides in the acknowledgement of historical injustices and their continued impact on both the beneficiaries and the victims of coloniality in the present.
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Relation
- Humanities Vol. 10, no. 4 (2021), p. 112
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- © 2021 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- Aboriginal genocide; Activists; Boundaries; Boundary-thinking; Councils; Decolonisation; Decolonization; Diaries; Genocide; Holocaust; Injustice; Native peoples; Oppression; Political theory; Racism; Responsibilities; Responsibility; Storytelling; Storytelling witness; MD Multidisciplinary
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