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Fractured Community

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Linnell Secomb
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Abstract

Unity, commonality, and agreement are generally understood to be the basis, or the aim, of community. This paper argues instead that disagreement and fracture are inherent to, and provide the expression of difference within, community. Drawing on the experience of race relations in Australia, this paper proposes that ongoing resistance and disagreement by Aboriginal groups against non-Aboriginal law and culture has enabled an unworking of homogenizing and totalizing forces which destroy alterity within community.

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Hypatia , Volume 15 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Going Australian: Reconfiguring Feminism and Philosophy , Spring 2000 , pp. 133 - 150
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Copyright © 2000 by Hypatia, Inc.

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