Equivocating on reconciliation

Galloway, Greta

doi:10.1111/j.1447-0748.2005.00219.x

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“…The forcible removal of Indigenous children, done in the name of child protection, is widely regarded in contemporary Australian social work as a dark period in the history of the country and the profession (Fejo-King, 2011). There are those who argue that the story of the Stolen Generations should not be viewed as an issue of a distant past considering how the repercussions of the policies and practices still reverberate in the lives of the living today (Ban, 2005; Galloway, 2005). Many of those who were removed from their families as children grew up with mental health problems and substance abuse and, as adults, are grappling with social and financial hardships and family problems requiring child protection interventions in relation to their own children (Ban, 2005; Bortoli, Coles, & Dolan, 2015; Haebich, 2000).…”

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“…Many of those who were removed from their families as children grew up with mental health problems and substance abuse and, as adults, are grappling with social and financial hardships and family problems requiring child protection interventions in relation to their own children (Ban, 2005; Bortoli, Coles, & Dolan, 2015; Haebich, 2000). The practice should also not be seen in isolation of Australia’s colonial past and present (Briskman, 2003; Galloway, 2005). The discourses on child protection were intertwined with colonial motives of appropriation, integration, and assimilation (HREOC, 1997).…”

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Interrogating social work: Australian Social Work and the Stolen Generations

2018

Journal of Social Work

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Summary In the context of Australian social work’s “past complicity” in the disadvantaging of Indigenous Australians , this study examined what was said in the journal of the Australian Association of Social Workers about the taking of Indigenous children and the challenges confronting Indigenous Australians during the last two decades of the policies and practices that created what has since been known as the Stolen Generations. A content analysis was undertaken of 23 years of articles in the journal Australian Social Work between 1948 and 1970, the period roughly representing the first two decades of the journal’s publication and the last two decades of what was by then a time-honored practice that shaped the lives of thousands of Indigenous children and their families. Findings The study found that very little was said in the journal about the practice in question. Of the 331 articles in the journal within the period, only one article expressly touched on the care of Indigenous children beyond their biological family and community and only one article advanced a critique of the taking of Indigenous children. A landmark change in the constitution affecting all Indigenous Australians came and went without mention. Thus, some of the most important issues affecting the welfare and rights of Indigenous Australians were largely ignored in the professional journal. Applications It is argued that the findings in this study can inform a critical understanding of contemporary social work in different parts of the world.

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Interrogating social work: Australian Social Work and the Stolen Generations

2018

Journal of Social Work

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“…Largement abordée en sciences humaines et sociales, la réconciliation apparait comme une notion très large, même ambigüe ; à la fois processus (Auerbach, 2009 ;Avruch, 2010 ;Cameron, 2007 ;Quinn, 2009 ;Redonnet, 2001 ;Skaar, 2013), résultat (Avruch, 2010), stratégie (Wyile, 2017) et idéologie (Redonnet, 2001 ;Schaap, 2008). Si certain•es la définissent comme état de coexistence (Price, 2020), d'autres soutiennent qu'il s'agit de plus : la réconciliation implique un travail de révision de l'état et de l'avenir des relations (Johnson, 2011) qui s'applique dans toutes les sphères de la société ; la politique (Coulthard, 2014 ;Schaap, 2008), le droit (Baldissone, 2018 ;Stanton, 2017 ;Wyile, 2017), l'occupation du territoire et le développement économique (Van Lier, 2021), l'éducation et la recherche (Côté, 2019 ;Daigle, 2019), l'archivisme (Charbonneau et Foisy-Geoffroy, 2019), la littérature (Wyile, 2018), l'aide sociale (Galloway, 2005), les relations interpersonnelles (Cameron, 2007), mais aussi les langues, la lutte contre les discriminations linguistiques et les droits linguistiques (Price, 2020).…”

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Polysémie et politique : analyse critique du mot réconciliation au Parlement canadien

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2022

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Cet article propose une analyse critique de l'usage du mot réconciliation dans le discours politique fédéral. Utilisé dans un contexte de pays colonisateur comme le Canada, ce mot est chargé d'histoire et n'a pas la même connotation selon cellui qui l'utilise. Le corpus étudié est tiré des transcriptions des débats ayant eu lieu à la Chambre des communes autour du projet de loi C-91, la Loi sur les langues autochtones, adopté en juin 2019. Des 130 000 mots du corpus, nous avons analysé les 93 occurrences du mot réconciliation en français et en anglais à l'aide d'outils d'analyses thématiques et du discours pour en arriver à comprendre comment il est mobilisé par les parlementaires. Les stratégies discursives entourant l'usage de ce mot s'apparentent parfois aux usages privilégiés par les auteurices et leaders autochtones qui revendiquent une vision critique de la réconciliation, mais nos analyses montrent qu'elles s'appuient surtout sur ce que Daigle (2019) nomme le « spectacle de la réconciliation ».

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