Kennedy, RosannePumla Gobodo-Madikizela2019-09-192019-09-199783847406136http://hdl.handle.net/1885/170585In the Australia of the 1990s, the idea of reconciliation, backed by government initiatives, enjoyed popular support. The discourse of reconciliation has been superseded by a discourse of 'crisis' in Aboriginal Australia. In this era of crisis, the Stolen Generations paradigm, characterised by a compassionate politics of testimony and witnessing, has lost much of its moral and political purchase. This shift provides context for my consideration of a parallel shift, from an aesthetics of reparation that flourished during the reconciliation era, to an aesthetics of survival which mediates an era of 'crisis ordinariness'.application/pdfen-AU© 2016 Barbara Budrich Publishershttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/2016.2307/j.ctvdf03jc.162021-08-01Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)