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PhD in History from the University of Wollongong
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Higher penalties may apply, and higher damages may be awarded, for offences and infringements inv... more Higher penalties may apply, and higher damages may be awarded, for offences and infringements involving the conversion of material into digital or electronic form. Unless otherwise indicated, the views expressed in this thesis are those of the author and do not necessarily Unless otherwise indicated, the views expressed in this thesis are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Wollongong. represent the views of the University of Wollongong.
Lilith: a feminist history journal, 2019
Aboriginal women and Yam fields (AWAY) is part of the Bundian Way project which is an initiative ... more Aboriginal women and Yam fields (AWAY) is part of the Bundian Way project which is an initiative of the Eden Local Aboriginal Land Council (LALC). Aboriginal Elders and activists are revitalising an Aboriginal pathway that stretches from the coast south of Eden to Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciusko in the NSW high country. The regeneration of native yams, undertaken by Aboriginal women on country, is part of this project that seeks to highlight and celebrate pre-settler histories as well as recuperate Aboriginal cultural practices and knowledge systems that helped to sustain people and place for several millennia. Drawing on the words of Indigenous Elder Aileen Blackburn, I argue that history-making practices by young women employed through the project are a form of history through doing and a powerful form of gender activism. In this context, I explore material practices enmeshed in the cultural and social lives of these young Aboriginal women. These practices connect th...
Postcolonial Studies, 2020
The Bundian project is an initiative of the Eden Local Aboriginal Land Council on the far south c... more The Bundian project is an initiative of the Eden Local Aboriginal Land Council on the far south coast of New South Wales, Australia. Aboriginal Elders and activists working on the project are restoring an Aboriginal pathway that stretches from the coast to the high country. This article examines the experiences of four young Aboriginal men employed to work on the project. Drawing on qualitative research, I analyse how these young men are using and reconceptualising settler histories of early cross-cultural encounters to propose new ways of living well in settler-colonial Australia and to contest the dominant settler historiography that has positioned Indigenous people as either 'violent, ignoble savages' or the fading victims of colonisation. In their rearticulation through the project, these stories of early cross-cultural relations are reclaimed as powerful critical histories of settler colonisation. Through this project, Aboriginal people are critically interrogating discourses of settler colonisation while opening up new historical spaces that speak to the 'truth' of Aboriginal lived experience in contemporary Australia.
Higher penalties may apply, and higher damages may be awarded, for offences and infringements inv... more Higher penalties may apply, and higher damages may be awarded, for offences and infringements involving the conversion of material into digital or electronic form. Unless otherwise indicated, the views expressed in this thesis are those of the author and do not necessarily Unless otherwise indicated, the views expressed in this thesis are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Wollongong. represent the views of the University of Wollongong.
Lilith: a feminist history journal, 2019
Aboriginal women and Yam fields (AWAY) is part of the Bundian Way project which is an initiative ... more Aboriginal women and Yam fields (AWAY) is part of the Bundian Way project which is an initiative of the Eden Local Aboriginal Land Council (LALC). Aboriginal Elders and activists are revitalising an Aboriginal pathway that stretches from the coast south of Eden to Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciusko in the NSW high country. The regeneration of native yams, undertaken by Aboriginal women on country, is part of this project that seeks to highlight and celebrate pre-settler histories as well as recuperate Aboriginal cultural practices and knowledge systems that helped to sustain people and place for several millennia. Drawing on the words of Indigenous Elder Aileen Blackburn, I argue that history-making practices by young women employed through the project are a form of history through doing and a powerful form of gender activism. In this context, I explore material practices enmeshed in the cultural and social lives of these young Aboriginal women. These practices connect th...
Postcolonial Studies, 2020
The Bundian project is an initiative of the Eden Local Aboriginal Land Council on the far south c... more The Bundian project is an initiative of the Eden Local Aboriginal Land Council on the far south coast of New South Wales, Australia. Aboriginal Elders and activists working on the project are restoring an Aboriginal pathway that stretches from the coast to the high country. This article examines the experiences of four young Aboriginal men employed to work on the project. Drawing on qualitative research, I analyse how these young men are using and reconceptualising settler histories of early cross-cultural encounters to propose new ways of living well in settler-colonial Australia and to contest the dominant settler historiography that has positioned Indigenous people as either 'violent, ignoble savages' or the fading victims of colonisation. In their rearticulation through the project, these stories of early cross-cultural relations are reclaimed as powerful critical histories of settler colonisation. Through this project, Aboriginal people are critically interrogating discourses of settler colonisation while opening up new historical spaces that speak to the 'truth' of Aboriginal lived experience in contemporary Australia.