Unsettling the Gap

"In this book, Sophie Rudolph intelligently, and in an ethically aware way, historicizes ‘gap talk’ in contemporary Australian Indigenous education policy. As well as a thoroughly researched ‘history of the present,’ her analyses and pedagogical use of Indigenous artists’ images provoke and decolonize how we might think otherwise about Indigenous education. Unsettling the Gap: Race, Politics and Indigenous Education is a profound book and a must-read for all concerned with Indigenous schooling." —Bob Lingard, Emeritus Professor, School of Education, The University of Queensland
"Unsettling the Gap: Race, Politics and Indigenous Education invites readers into a difficult conversation about how educational policies can enact both material and epistemic dispossession. Sophie Rudolph makes an extremely important contribution to educational studies by offering a highly sophisticated analysis of knowledge production in the context of settler colonial relations. The book is a persuasive and carefully argued account of how investments in settler authority are mobilized to reproduce colonial injustices in Indigenous education." —Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change, The University of British Columbia
"Unsettling the Gap: Race, Politics and Indigenous Education impressively examines and disrupts the governing colonial and racial logics of white supremacy in education. Empirically insightful and theoretically innovative, it indexes the concept of gap and its effects within a history of the present that analyzes the paradoxical role that education plays in structural inequalities and social justice possibilities. For those interested in challenging settler colonial dynamics in Australia and beyond, this is a must-read book." —Roland Sintos Coloma, Professor and Assistant Dean, Wayne State University; President, American Educational Studies Association