'The Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies is the first comprehensive overview of the rapidly expanding field of Indigenous scholarship. The book is ambitious in scope, ranging across disciplines and national boundaries, with particular reference to the lived conditions of Indigenous peoples in the first world.
'The contributors are all themselves Indigenous scholars who provide critical understandings of indigeneity in relation to ontology (ways of being), epistemology (ways of knowing), and axiology (ways of doing) with a view to providing insights into how Indigenous peoples and communities engage and examine the worlds in which they are immersed. Sections include:
'This handbook contributes to the re-centring of Indigenous knowledges, providing material and ideational analyses of social, political, and cultural institutions and critiquing and considering how Indigenous peoples situate themselves within, outside, and in relation to dominant discourses, dominant postcolonial cultures and prevailing Western thought.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
'Aboriginal domestic service, indentured labour, and stolen wages stories are largely invisible and not widely acknowledged or understood as significant in official narratives of history in South Australia. This paper will demonstrate the importance of accessing the state's archives in order to trace assimilation-based measures targeting girls for removal from their families and for domestic labour. It also aims to theorise the violence of the colonial archive from Indigenous standpoints as a key site of memory, conservation, and erasure that continues to resonate. Such records trigger questions of government control, surveillance, representation, and agency, particularly as we encounter the gendered and racialised intimacies of everyday life. 'Archival-poetics' is introduced as a culturally and locally situated method of resistance and transformation through creative engagement with archives; one way to repatriate stories and love to our families, bridge the labour history knowledge gap in SA, and generate new knowledge with healing, decolonising intent.'
Source: Abstract.
