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SUMMARY:Critical Global Politics cluster - research seminar - Dr Juliet B
 rough Rogers (University of Melbourne\, Australia)
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DESCRIPTION:Dear all\, \n\nCritical Global Politics cluster invites you t
 o a research seminar taking place on Wednesday\, February 24\, 4 - 6pm i
 n 5.209 University Place. \n\nDr Juliet Brough Rogers (University of Mel
 bourne\, Australia)\n\nTitle:\nTime\, Remorse and Melancholic Resistance
  to Constitutional Change in non-Indigenous Australia.\n\nChanges to the
  Australian Constitution\, to reflect the existence of Indigenous Austra
 lians\, have been debated for over 20 years. Despite moves toward some f
 orm of change in recent years\, in 2015 the then Prime Minister Tony Abb
 ott refused to support a ‘black process’ to consider what form this chan
 ge might take. While non-Indigenous Australians often speak of guilt and
  remorse over 200 years of colonisation and its policies and some things
  do change - apologies are given\, violences acknowledge - but some thin
 gs cannot be let go of. When Freud said - "the melancholic does not beha
 ve in quite the same way as the person who is crushed by remorse and sel
 f-reproach in a normal fashion. Feelings of shame in front of other peop
 le\, which would more than anything characterise this latter condition a
 re lacking in the melancholic".\n\nHe might have been talking about non-
 Indigenous Australians. Constitutional change\, that reflects a black pr
 ocess\, would seem to be a simple enough moment of recognition\, but som
 ething insists and informs resistance to constitutional change and to ac
 knowledging the existence of Indigenous Australians as politico-legal su
 bjects\; something\, I argue in this paper\, that resembles melancholia\
 , but a particularly Australian form of melancholia. \n\nIn this paper I
  discuss the particularities of Australian history in its relation to it
 s own ‘founding fathers’. I interrogate the use of psychoanalysis as a t
 ool to describe political landscapes and in reference to this I argue th
 at the difficulties with constitutional change are certainly forms of me
 lancholia\, but particularly Australian forms. Melancholia in Australia 
 insists because the Constitution collates a time of paternity in which t
 he violence of a savage land “before” and the order of a civilised land 
 “after” the Constitution enables a fantasy of an arrival of “Australia”.
  A discussion with black Australia\, however\, implies that the before w
 as not as savage as one imagined and perhaps a conversation might have t
 aken place\, in this realisation the very notion of Australia as either 
 empty or savage is put under erasure. Changing the Constitution thus sug
 gests that something might not only be lost\, but that perhaps something
  was never “discovered” in the first place.\n \n\nBIO \nDr Juliet Brough
  Rogers is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Political S
 ciences at the University of Melbourne\, and Adjunct Professor at Griffi
 th Law School\, Queensland. She is currently an Australian Research Coun
 cil DECRA Fellow examining the ‘Quality of Remorse’ after periods of pol
 itical and military conflict. She has recently been a Visiting Fellow at
  the European University Institute\, Italy\; Yale Law School\, US\; Univ
 ersity of Cape Town Law School\, South Africa and Queens University Law 
 School. She is currently a visiting fellow at Scuola Superiore di Studi 
 Umanistici\, at the University of Bologna.\nShe recently published Law’s
  Cut on the Body of Human Rights: Female Circumcision\, Torture and Sacr
 ed Flesh (Routledge)\, and she is completing a monograph on Remorse.\n\n
 \nBest wishes\,\nAndreja.\n\nDr Andreja Zevnik\nLecturer in Internationa
 l Politics\nConvener Critical Global Politics Cluster\n4.060 Arthur Lewi
 s Building\nUniversity of Manchester\nManchester M13 9PL\nUK\n\nemail: a
 ndreja.zevnik@manchester.ac.uk\nPhone: 0161 2754899\n
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LOCATION:5.209 University Place. \, University Place\, Manchester
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