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Stolenwealth: Examining the Expropriation of First Nations Women’s Unpaid Care

Published Date: 1.8.2023

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Theme: Specific groups of carers

Sub-theme: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander carers

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Feminist research Discrimination

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Theme: Specific groups of carers

Sub-theme: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander carers

View Publication Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Feminist research Discrimination

Verification Statement

This publication / resource is hosted on a publicly available external link. If the full text is not publicly accessible, summary points are included and a contact method for the author(s) is provided, where available.

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Stolenwealth: Examining the Expropriation of First Nations Women’s Unpaid Care

Published Date: 1.8.2023

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    Klein, E. (2022). Stolenwealth: Examining the Expropriation of First Nations Women’s Unpaid Care. Australian Feminist Studies, 37(114), 442–457. https://doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2023.2241156

Long Summary

This article examines the intersections between coloniality and gender in the generation and maintenance of Australian wealth. Settler colonialism is ongoing in Australia and is intricately linked to wealth accumulation – where First Nations people’s labour, land and lives have been, and continue to be, expropriated. Whilst feminist scholars have long shown how the capitalist economy free rides on unpaid care work, understandings of care have centred around colonial and settler notions of care which can overlook First Nations meanings and practices of care such as those intricately linked to looking after country, and are at the forefront of struggles and endurance against settler colonialism, including the unpaid work of healing settler induced trauma and violence. Through examining these areas of unpaid care, and drawing on Indigenous, racial capitalism and settler colonial literature, this article outlines contemporary processes of expropriation of First Nations women’s unpaid care, in the making and maintenance of Australian wealth.

    Key Messages for Carers


  • The article explores three ongoing aspects of expropriation of First Nations’ unpaid care: the work of endurance, survival and resistance, second, care of country, and third, the care expropriated through settler government policies and processes.

  • Key Messages for Policy Makers


  • The lens of expropriation shows it is necessary to consider the circuits of wealth generation that reproduce both gendered and racialised forms of expropriation. What is needed is nothing short of a deep structural transformation of the social order that reinvents the production-reproduction distinction.

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