Providing an international reference work written solely by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors, this book offers a powerful overview of emergent and topical research in the field of global Indigenous studies. It addresses current concerns of Australian Indigenous peoples of today, and explores opportunities to develop, and support the development of, Indigenous resilience and solidarity to create a fairer, safer, more inclusive future.
Divided into three sections, this book explores:
What futures for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples might look like, and how institutions, structures and systems can be transformed to such a future;
The complexity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island life and identity, and the possibilities for Australian Indigenous futures; and
The many and varied ways in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples use technology, and how it is transforming their lives.
This book documents a turning point in global Indigenous history: the disintermediation of Indigenous voices and the promotion of opportunities for Indigenous peoples to map their own futures. It is a valuable resource for students and scholars of Indigenous studies, as well as gender and sexuality studies, education studies, ethnicity and identity studies, and decolonising development studies.
Providing an international reference work written solely by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors, this book offers a powerful overview of emergent and topical research in the field of global Indigenous studies.
Introduction Part 1: Future Worlds
1. The future is Indigenous
2.
Foreign policy futures
3. A certain wisdom: living law before more, more,
more
4. Staying with the fire: sustainable futures using Indigenous
Knowledges
5. Settler colonialism, Jews and Indigenous peoples: theorising
homelands as a point of connection in Indigenous-Jewish relations in
so-called Australia
6. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inclusion in the
workplace: challenging racist policy and practice
7. There is no such thing
as a blank slate: accountability in decolonising universities
8. Indigenous
voice as self-determination: co-designing a shared future for all Australians
9. Fuel, flame and smoke: on Indigenous fantasy
10. The voice of Country: our
obligation and responsibility to listen
11. Indigenous futures for subject
English: a profile of practice Part 2: Intimacies, relationalities and
locating ourselves
12. Unsettling the settler state and being on the
frontline of Indigenous resistance
13. Visual liberations and embodiments of
ancestral memory: exploring the relational engagements of Indigenous queer
artists
14. Utopianism, eco-criticism and colonial fantasy: Germain Greers
White Beech as a case study in settler futurity
15. Yarning with the archives
16. Digital Indigiqueers: locating queer mob in the literature
17. The edge
of the tide: exploring the complexities and futures of Aboriginality from the
critical perspectives of Indigenous researchers
18. Our young people are our
future: cultural continuity and the Illawarra Flame Trees
19. Be(com)ing in
the city: Indigenous queer relationalities and community building
20.
Indigenous futures and deep time connections to place
21. The question, or
who asks for evidence of queerness in Aboriginal culture?
22. Future Tweed:
envisioning the possibilities of Bundjalung Country, community and culture
through speculative fiction
23. The museum of the imagination: curating
against the colonial insistence on diminishing Indigeneity
24. Lessons on
decoloniality from Blak and Black Sahulian ecologies and the Aboriginal
philosophy of Everywhen Part 3: Digital futures
25. The future of Australian
Indigenous records and archives is social
26. Beyond zeroes and ones: walking
the daisy talk with Dharawal Elders to understand their (dis)connection with
internet services
27. Digital futures: health-seeking on social media
28.
Indigenous studies and the future of knowledge formation in higher education
29. Digital Indigenous oral knowledge
30. Reflections on Indigenous LGBTIQ+
communities online
Bronwyn Carlson is Head of the Indigenous Studies Department, Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University, Australia.
Madi Day is a Lecturer in the Department of Indigenous Studies at Macquarie University, Australia.
Sandy OSullivan is a Professor of Indigenous Studies at Macquarie University, Australia.
Tristan Kennedy is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous) at Monash University, Australia.
