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标题：Welcome to Country: Acknowledgement, Belonging and White Anti-racism
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作者：Emma Kowal
期刊名称：Cultural Studies Review
电子版ISSN：1837-8692
出版年度：2015
卷号：21
期号：2
页码：173-204
语种：English
出版社：University of Technology, Sydney
摘要：The Welcome to Country (WTC) ceremony and its twin, the Acknowledgement of Traditional Owners, have become prominent anti-racist rituals in the post-settler society of Australia. These rituals are rich in meaning. They are simultaneously emblems of colonisation and dispossession; of recognition and reconciliation; and a periodic focus of political posturing. This article analyses the multiple meanings of WTC ceremonies. In particular, I explore the politics of belonging elicited by WTC and Acknowledgement rituals. Drawing on ethnography of non-Indigenous people who work in Indigenous affairs, I argue that widespread enjoyment of these rituals among White anti-racists is explained because they paradoxically experience belonging through a sense of not belonging.
关键词：Indigenous, Australia, postcolonial, white, antiracism, belonging