Unsettling the Settler: An Arts-Based Exploration

This article considers how meta-narratives can be created through arts-based educational research as a way to shift personal positions and values, using monologue called Unsettling the settler, written by author. The creation of that disrupt ideas national identity, safety security patriarchal colonial regimes, who gets decide what knowledge is worth knowing are essential antiracist solidarity processes seek create belongingness, care responsibility. picks up thread from long-term project in which author learnt her participants (actors, audience members production team) performing anti-racist, decolonizing work necessarily begins with an examination one’s positionality (i.e., body/position/identity/race/cultural background, etc.). “Doing work” means one must committed sitting discomfort accept there no easy solutions part process change.