Reconciliation and Indigenous Knowledges (AUST2006)
School of Humanities - Flinders University
2009

Texts

y separately published work icon Sharing Spaces : Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Responses to Story, Country and Rights Gus Worby (editor), Lester-Irabinna Rigney (editor), Perth : API Network Curtin University of Technology. Australia Research Institute , 2006 Z1273416 2006 anthology criticism (taught in 2 units) A collection of conversations and essays by Elders, Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars addresses a range of contemporary issues including the politics of space sharing derived from a colonial history of non-sharing, the relationship between the stories Australians tell themselves about their place as a nation. (Libraries Australia)
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Description

This topic is designed to allow students to read, view and experience a range of texts which deal with encounters between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. It offers an inter-disciplinary approach to the study of representation of Australian Indigenous knowledges and cultural practices using an 'education for reconciliation' approach. It analyses contested definitions of culture and paradigms of cultural value, meaning and priority. It will introduce students to theories of representation and totheir application to Indigenous materials, knowledges, social and cultural practices in: literature, drama, film, music, autobiography, visual art, artefacts and material culture, dance, storytelling, oral history, local legends, ceremony, sport etc. It will employ cross-cultural approaches to subject matter and also investigate post-colonial notions of authenticity, reciprocity, hybridity, third space negotiation and collaboration. This topic will be taught in conjunction with Australian Studies Staff.

Supplementary Texts

Toussaint, Sandy (ed.). Crossing Boundaries: Cultural, Legal, Historical and Practice Issues in Native Title. Melbourne University Press, 2004.

Unaipon, David. Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines. The Miegunyah Press, 2006

Altman, John; Hinkson, Melinda (eds.). Coercive reconciliation : stabilise, normalise, exit Aboriginal Australia. Arena Publications Association, 2007.

Goot, Murray; Rowse, Tim. Divided nation? : indigenous affairs and the imagined public. Melbourne University Publishing, 2007.

Carter, David. Dispossession, Dreams and Diversity: Issues in Australian Studies. Pearson Education, 2005.

Gale, Peter. The Politics of Fear: Lighting the Wick. Pearson Education, 2004.

Gale, Mary-Ann. My Side of the Bridge: The Life Story of Veronica Brodie. Wakefield Press, 2002.

Grossman, Michele. Blacklines: Contemporary Critical Writing by Indigenous Australians. Melbourne University Press, 2003.

Langton, Marcia; Tehan, Maureen; Palmer, Lisa; Shain, Kathryn (eds.). Honour Among Nations?: Treaties and Agreements with Indigenous People. Melbourne University Press, 2004.

Langton, Marcia; Tehan, Maureen; Palmer, Lisa; Shain, Kathryn; Mazel, Odette. Settling with Indigenous People: Modern Treaty and Agreement-making. Federation Press, 2006.

Langton, Marcia. "Well, I heard it on the radio and I saw it on the television" : an essay for the Australian Film Commission on the politics and aesthetics of filmmaking by and about Aboriginal people and things. Australian Film Commission, 1993.

Moreton-Robinson, Aileen. Talkin' up to the white woman : aboriginal women and feminism. University of Queensland Press, 2000.

Purcell, Leah. Black Chicks Talking. Hachette, 2004.

Reynolds, Henry. Nowhere People. Penguin, 2005.

Strelein, Lisa. Compromised Jurisprudence: Native Title Cases Since Mabo. Aboriginal Studies Press, 2006.

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Levels: Undergraduate
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