Toward a radical reversal of our colonial education and transformative research agendas Kaiya Aboagye Summary • Framing this project conceptually
• Finding Aboriginal Australia in the global African diaspora • Theoretical orientations • Methodological implications • Revolutionary research as resurgent – moving toward pedagogies outside of formal institutional settings of education. Framing statement of position • ‘It is my thesis that Aboriginal Australia underwent a rape of the soul so profound that the blight continues in the minds of most blacks today’. – Kevin Gilbert, 1997:2. • The ongoing legacy of colonisation continues to hold devastating effects on the conditions of mental slavery and that of knowledge of self.
• Indigenous research is transformative. To think and enact our Indigenous way of being, while experiencing colonisation is to resist dominance. k1
Australia’s first bush ranger Colonial diarist Watkin Tench took a sympathetic view, insisting that Caesar had been trying to ingratiate himself with the Aborigines 'with a wish to adopt their customs and live with them: but he was always repulsed ... and compelled to return to us in hunger and wretchedness'.? (Pybus) http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/bushrangers/images/7910472/title/black‐john‐caesar‐1795‐
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kabo4714, 16/02/2017
Billy Blue and others William (Billy) Blue plays a colorful role in Australian colonial history. He came to Australia as a convict and eventually became one of the country’s first entrepreneurs by pioneering Sydney Harbor's ferry service becoming the nation’s first tour operator. William then built his own pub called The Commodore Hotel, which to this day can still be found at its original location on Blues Point Road.
Read more at http://www.billyblue.edu.au/life‐at‐billy‐
blue/the‐story‐of‐billy‐blue#scf9eZigSSzb6lPP.99
Theoretical Orientations • What are the necessary lenses that are required to adequately deconstruct colonial accounts that interpret our race relations for us without our voices • Trans‐Indigenous Projects and Indigenous Philosophies • De‐colonial Black Feminist perspectives – why using this is important? • Framing the research objective, research agendas, and positionality Methodological implications • What are the appropriate methodologies to deconstruct our own histories from our own standpoints and perspectives. • Who are the key beneficiaries of this research – IKM/ Ind. practioners
• What does this mean for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of African descant? • What does this mean within an international context and the increase of global black studies Resurgent Research • What does this mean to a broader population – re‐contextulising our interpretation of dominate histories and the way knowledge is produced by and about us. • Mental liberation is not social and emotional wellbeing – it has a relationship – but this is about addressing and relearning ourselves within the prisons of our indoctrination – it is cultural and it is spiritual • It also provides a possibility to reorient and deepen our Indigenous international relations and add further complexity to our nations national history that is quiet frankly, simplistic at current.