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Beate Neumeier and Kay Schaffer’s edited book, Decolonizing Landscape: Indigenous Cultures in Australia, examines the violence of Australia’s colonial past to engage in an intercultural dialogue and call for a renewed ethical response. The multi-disciplinary character of the topic is clearly reflected in this volume which brings together 15 innovative essays that combine philosophical, ethnographic, psychoanalytical, postmodern, and postcolonial approaches. In their introduction, Neumeier and...

The theme of the 2017 SAES conference “(Re)construction(s)” is particularly pertinent in the area of colonial and postcolonial studies, for it captures one of its underlying preoccupations. It suggests that the ultimate purpose of postcolonial deconstruction – which represents a first step toward a transformation of critical thought that aims at overcoming Eurocentric approaches to space, place, people, and nations – is reconstruction. By incorporating other voices, postcolonial deconstructio...