艾琳·莫顿-罗宾逊

作品

• 2000向白人女性说话：原住民女性与女性主义

  分析澳大利亚女性主义如何在理论和实践中把白人中产阶级女性的经验当作规范，并借助原住民女性的生命书写，从她们的立场“回话”。

• 2015白人的占有：财产、权力与原住民主权

  一组文章，论证澳大利亚和美国这样的定居者国家建立在一种“占有逻辑”之上：土地、国家乃至白人身份本身都被当作白人的财产——这种逻辑否认原住民的主权。

立场

Moreton-Robinson is on the map as a founding figure of Critical Indigenous Studies in Australia, a field that studies settler societies from Indigenous standpoints instead of treating Indigenous peoples as objects of research. “Talkin’ Up to the White Woman” (2000) asks why Australian feminism, while claiming to speak for all women, took the experience of white middle-class women as the norm; read through the life writings of Indigenous women, whiteness appears as an invisible position of privilege and power. “The White Possessive” (2015) generalises the analysis: settler nations such as Australia and the United States rest on a “possessive logic” in which land, the nation and even the authority to define race are treated as white property, so that Indigenous sovereignty is not merely ignored but actively denied. From this standpoint Moreton-Robinson criticises critical race and whiteness studies in the United States for centring slavery and immigration and leaving Indigenous dispossession aside; how Black and Indigenous experiences of slavery and dispossession relate to each other is itself debated in Black and settler-colonial studies (e.g. T. L. King, The Black Shoals, 2019). The work is a common reference in Indigenous and settler-colonial studies and is often taught alongside Glen Coulthard’s “Red Skin, White Masks”; no documented links yet connect it with others on the map.

生平与背景

Aileen Moreton-Robinson was born in 1956 on Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island) in Queensland and describes herself as a Goenpul woman of the Quandamooka people. Moreton-Robinson took a first-class honours degree in sociology at the Australian National University and in 1998 a doctorate at Griffith University with a thesis on Indigenous women and feminism in Australia, published in 2000 as “Talkin’ Up to the White Woman”. After teaching Indigenous studies at Griffith University and women’s studies at Flinders University, Moreton-Robinson worked from 2006 to 2019 at the Queensland University of Technology, as professor of Indigenous studies and dean of Indigenous research and engagement, and in 2016 became its first Aboriginal distinguished professor. Moreton-Robinson directed the National Indigenous Research and Knowledges Network, edited the International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies and edited volumes on whiteness and on Indigenous sovereignty. Honours include a book prize of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (2016), election as an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2020), as the first Indigenous scholar from outside the United States.

其他主要作品

• Talkin’ Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism (2000; 20th anniversary ed. 2020)
• Whitening Race: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism (ed., 2004)
• Sovereign Subjects: Indigenous Sovereignty Matters (ed., 2007)
• The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty (2015)
• Critical Indigenous Studies: Engagements in First World Locations (ed., 2016)