Drawing on Alexis Wright’s novel The Swan Book and Irene Watson’s expansive critique of Australian law, this article locates within the settler–Australian imaginary the figure of the ‘wounded Aboriginal child’ as a site of contest between two rival sovereign logics: First Nations sovereignty (grounded in a spiritual connection to the land over tens of millennia) and settler sovereignty (imposed on Indigenous peoples by physical, legal and existential violence for 230 years). Through the conceptual landscape afforded by these writers, the article explores how the arenas of juvenile justice and child protection stage an occlusion of First Nations sovereignty, as a disappearing of the ‘Aboriginality’ of Aboriginal children under Australian settler law. Giorgio Agamben’s concept of potentiality is also drawn on to analyse this sovereign difference through the figures of Terra Nullius and ‘the child’.

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定居者-殖民暴力和“受伤的土著儿童”：与艾琳·沃森（和乔治·阿甘本）一起阅读亚历克西斯·赖特

本文借鉴亚历克西斯·赖特的小说《天鹅之书》和艾琳·沃森对澳大利亚法律的广泛批判，将“受伤的土著儿童”形象置于定居者-澳大利亚人的想象中，作为两种对立的主权逻辑之间的较量：原住民主权（数千年来与这片土地的精神联系）和定居者主权（230 年来通过身体、法律和生存暴力强加给土著人民）。通过这些作者提供的概念图景，文章探讨了少年司法和儿童保护领域如何将原住民主权的闭塞，作为澳大利亚移民法下土著儿童“原住民”的消失。