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Engaging in Reconciliation in Australia, and the Challenge of Institutional Reform.
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Journal of Intercultural Studies . Aug2024, Vol. 45 Issue 4, p640-655. 16p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- The emphasis on reconciliation as a process of individual reflexivity and institutional reform raises important questions about people's engagement in reconciliation discourses. This paper uses critical discourse analysis to examine how staff at a regional Australian university interpret reconciliation and its application in a workplace context. Many frame their understanding on ideas that are considered foundational to reconciliation in post-colonial Australia. Notions of relationships and coexistence, unity and social harmony, cultural respect and the rightful place of First Nations peoples form the foundation to a revisionist national identity tied to a critical examination and responsiveness to past injustice. Participants recombine and reorder these concepts in ways that speak to their individualised translation, with a greater emphasis on the agency of First Nations peoples in the learning and teaching environment. Such expressions indicate a willingness by respondents to engage in the ideas of reconciliation at the cognitive level. For many, however, reconciliation remains an aspirational or desired activity, and belies a reticence to take personal action that will contribute to wider institutional change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *CRITICAL discourse analysis
*RECONCILIATION
*SOCIAL cohesion
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 07256868
- Volume :
- 45
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Intercultural Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 178088729
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2024.2311118