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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Everywhen : Australia and the Language of Deep History
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'Everywhen is a groundbreaking collection about diverse ways of conceiving, knowing, and narrating time and deep history.

'Looking beyond the linear, Everywhen asks how knowledge systems of Aboriginal people can broaden understandings of the past and of our history. Indigenous embodied practices for knowing, narrating, and re-enacting the past in the present blur the distinctions of linear time, making all history now. Questions of time and language are questions of Indigenous sovereignty — and recognising First Nations’ time concepts embedded in languages and practices is a route to recognising diverse forms of Indigenous sovereignty.

'Edited by Ann McGrath, Laura Rademaker and Jakelin Troy, this collection draws attention to every when, arguing that First Nations’ ways of thinking of time are vital to understanding history and offers a new framework for how it is practiced in the Western tradition. Everywhen shows us that history is not as straightforward as some might think.'(Publication summary)

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Works about this Work

Everywhen: Australia and the Language of Deep History by Ann McGrath, Laura Rademaker and Jakelin Troy Martin Porr , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Aboriginal History Journal , September no. 47 2024; (p. 199-201)

— Review of Everywhen : Australia and the Language of Deep History 2023 anthology criticism
[Review] Everywhen: Australia and the Language of Deep History David Christian , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , vol. 54 no. 4 2023; (p. 842-843)

— Review of Everywhen : Australia and the Language of Deep History 2023 anthology criticism

'Everywhen consists of twelve essays and an introduction by the book’s three editors, a Ngarigu linguist and two non-Indigenous historians of colonialism. The book’s title comes from an influential 1956 essay by W.E.H. Stanner on Indigenous views of time, and the essays originated from a 2018 symposium at the ANU on ‘Understanding the Deep Past across Languages and Culture’. The book aims, as the editors write, ‘to explore how Indigenous temporalities can offer alternative perspectives toward understanding the concept of time, a factor so central to the historian’s craft yet so often taken for granted’ (2).' (Introduction)

[Review] Everywhen: Australia and the Language of Deep History Sakshi , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , vol. 47 no. 3 2023; (p. 612-614)

— Review of Everywhen : Australia and the Language of Deep History 2023 anthology criticism
'The deep-rooted coloniality in articulating time, space and language through the imperial fetters of monolingual domination and linear temporalities goes unchallenged within many academic disciplines. What we know of language, how language registers and alters our perception of place and time, and how spaces of connection and kinship influence temporalities have enormous consequences for the epistemic and political lives of First Nations within a settler colony. Everywhen is an edited collection containing rich and illuminating reflections on Indigenous temporalities and the seamless yet intricate continuities and entanglements between language, time and space. The collection is an important body of scholarship, filling the vacuum previously felt in understanding Indigenous temporalities and their complex relationship with diverse Indigenous languages. Further, it provides an unmistakable glimpse of how time and language can be conduits for critiquing settler coloniality and exploring alternative world-making practices. While grounded in the particularities of the Australian settler-colonial past and its present, Everywhen performs many tasks simultaneously: it functions as a text that illuminates the broad disciplinary interests and insights into the multifarious ways language can be spoken, perceived and performed, but more importantly, the collection also centres Indigenous scholars, who provide us with an exquisitely detailed appreciation of what time and language mean in the backdrop of ongoing settler colonialism.'  (Introduction) 
The Dreaming : A Vessel to Hold Past, Present, Future Leonie Stevens , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 458 2023; (p. 20-21)

— Review of Everywhen : Australia and the Language of Deep History 2023 anthology criticism

'It can take an enormous intellectual effort for non-Indigenous people (such as this reviewer) to grasp Indigenous concepts of time. This is partially due to what Aileen Moreton-Robinson has described as the incommensurability of Indigenous and Western epistemological approaches. In settler-colonial terms, land is a resource to be appropriated, surveyed, and exploited. Temporality is generally used to situate the colonisation event, the before and after, from a perspective where time is linear and forward-looking. By contrast, in Indigenous cosmological approaches, land, culture, and time are co-dependent and in perpetual conversation. Country and time are indivisible.' (Introduction)

‘Dates Add Nothing to Our Culture’ : Everywhen Explores Indigenous Deep History, Challenging Linear, Colonial Narratives Anna Clark , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 9 March 2023;

— Review of Everywhen : Australia and the Language of Deep History 2023 anthology criticism

'When the eminent Australian anthropologist W. E. H. Stanner first published his essay on “The Dreaming” in 1956, there was increasing scholarly and popular interest in the complexity and duration of Australia’s Indigenous cultures.' (Introduction)

‘Dates Add Nothing to Our Culture’ : Everywhen Explores Indigenous Deep History, Challenging Linear, Colonial Narratives Anna Clark , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 9 March 2023;

— Review of Everywhen : Australia and the Language of Deep History 2023 anthology criticism

'When the eminent Australian anthropologist W. E. H. Stanner first published his essay on “The Dreaming” in 1956, there was increasing scholarly and popular interest in the complexity and duration of Australia’s Indigenous cultures.' (Introduction)

The Dreaming : A Vessel to Hold Past, Present, Future Leonie Stevens , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 458 2023; (p. 20-21)

— Review of Everywhen : Australia and the Language of Deep History 2023 anthology criticism

'It can take an enormous intellectual effort for non-Indigenous people (such as this reviewer) to grasp Indigenous concepts of time. This is partially due to what Aileen Moreton-Robinson has described as the incommensurability of Indigenous and Western epistemological approaches. In settler-colonial terms, land is a resource to be appropriated, surveyed, and exploited. Temporality is generally used to situate the colonisation event, the before and after, from a perspective where time is linear and forward-looking. By contrast, in Indigenous cosmological approaches, land, culture, and time are co-dependent and in perpetual conversation. Country and time are indivisible.' (Introduction)

[Review] Everywhen: Australia and the Language of Deep History Sakshi , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , vol. 47 no. 3 2023; (p. 612-614)

— Review of Everywhen : Australia and the Language of Deep History 2023 anthology criticism
'The deep-rooted coloniality in articulating time, space and language through the imperial fetters of monolingual domination and linear temporalities goes unchallenged within many academic disciplines. What we know of language, how language registers and alters our perception of place and time, and how spaces of connection and kinship influence temporalities have enormous consequences for the epistemic and political lives of First Nations within a settler colony. Everywhen is an edited collection containing rich and illuminating reflections on Indigenous temporalities and the seamless yet intricate continuities and entanglements between language, time and space. The collection is an important body of scholarship, filling the vacuum previously felt in understanding Indigenous temporalities and their complex relationship with diverse Indigenous languages. Further, it provides an unmistakable glimpse of how time and language can be conduits for critiquing settler coloniality and exploring alternative world-making practices. While grounded in the particularities of the Australian settler-colonial past and its present, Everywhen performs many tasks simultaneously: it functions as a text that illuminates the broad disciplinary interests and insights into the multifarious ways language can be spoken, perceived and performed, but more importantly, the collection also centres Indigenous scholars, who provide us with an exquisitely detailed appreciation of what time and language mean in the backdrop of ongoing settler colonialism.'  (Introduction) 
[Review] Everywhen: Australia and the Language of Deep History David Christian , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , vol. 54 no. 4 2023; (p. 842-843)

— Review of Everywhen : Australia and the Language of Deep History 2023 anthology criticism

'Everywhen consists of twelve essays and an introduction by the book’s three editors, a Ngarigu linguist and two non-Indigenous historians of colonialism. The book’s title comes from an influential 1956 essay by W.E.H. Stanner on Indigenous views of time, and the essays originated from a 2018 symposium at the ANU on ‘Understanding the Deep Past across Languages and Culture’. The book aims, as the editors write, ‘to explore how Indigenous temporalities can offer alternative perspectives toward understanding the concept of time, a factor so central to the historian’s craft yet so often taken for granted’ (2).' (Introduction)

Everywhen: Australia and the Language of Deep History by Ann McGrath, Laura Rademaker and Jakelin Troy Martin Porr , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Aboriginal History Journal , September no. 47 2024; (p. 199-201)

— Review of Everywhen : Australia and the Language of Deep History 2023 anthology criticism
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