Download or read book Animating freedom: Accompanying Indigenous struggles for self-determination written by Jason MacLeod and published by Interactive Publications. This book was released on 2019 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 2019 Backhouse Lecture, Jason MacLeod shares what he has learnt about accompanying West Papuans – and to a lesser extent Aboriginal people, Bougainvilleans and East Timorese – in their struggle for self-determination.  Through personal stories, he tries to make sense of this experience in ways that might speak more broadly to Quakers.  His lecture is a deeply personal re ection on what one person thinks it takes to animate freedom and accompany Indigenous peoples on a journey from empire to the ‘good life.’