Untitled

Abstract

History has pioneered interdisciplinary historical studies of Australian Aboriginal peoples' and Torres Strait Islander's interactions with non-Indigenous peoples, principally in Australia but also transnationally. It promotes publication of Indigenous oral traditions, biographies, narratives in local languages, archival and bibliographic guides, previously unpublished manuscript accounts, critiques of current events, and research and reviews in the cognate fields of anthropology, archaeology, sociology, linguistics, demography, law, geography and cultural, political and economic history. For more information, please visit aboriginalhistory.org.au.

Memory in Place: Locating colonial histories and commemoration

“…While the contributions here are interdisciplinary and draw out the sometimes lesser-known conversations about commemoration in disciplines beyond history, we acknowledge the pivotal work done by historians in arguing for memory and oral history to be considered valuable and legitimate as historical evidence (Barker, 2008;Darian-Smith & Hamilton, 1994;Johnson, 2005;Kennedy & Nugent, 2016;Reid & Paisley, 2017). Likewise, scholars from various disciplines have considered the role of photography, literature and performance as sites of memory and history (Aird et al, 2021;Edmonds, 2016;Lydon, 2014;Schlunke, 2013), and work has been done to question whose memories and perspectives are included in remembrance (Curthoys, 2004;Nugent, 2013). Readers can already find detailed histories of Indigenous-settler relations in specific locales, sometimes drawing particularly on Indigenous oral history (Blake, 2001;Davis & Heath, 2021;Haebich, 1992;Schlunke, 2010;Shellam, 2020).…”