Record Number |
21554 |
ISBN |
9781922212719 (pbk.) |
1922212717 (pbk.) |
Location |
305.89 ACT |
Title |
Acts of reckoning / edited by Ashley Hay ; contributing editor, Teela Reid. |
Varying title |
Griffith review. Seventy-six. |
Portion of title |
Acts of reckoning. |
Published |
South Brisbane, QLD : Griffith University., 2022. |
Collation |
323 pages, 20 numbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm. |
Content types |
still image |
text |
Carrier type |
volume |
Series |
Griffith review |
; 76 |
General Note |
"Teela Reid, Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Tony Birch, Henry Reynolds, Melissa Lucashenko, Tom Griffiths, Lucas Grainger-Brown, Samuel Watson, Megan Davis."--Front cover. |
Summary Note |
Truth-telling in a post-truth world. Four years on from the Uluru Statement from the Heart, there's a clear divide between the groundswell of popular support to recognise the rightful place of First Nations people in Australia's democratic life and ongoing political inertia in the same space. Griffith Review 76: Acts of Reckoning is a wide-ranging discussion of the multifaceted issues at play in Australia's fraught journey towards a full settlement with Indigenous peoples. What might be possible for Australia's narrative when reconciliation between the world's oldest continuing culture and one of its newest nation states is achieved? And how can this take place in an era of quick assumptions and divides, alternative facts and cancellations? Examining questions of history, truth-telling and decolonisation and revisiting colonial figures and assumptions and their ongoing legacies, in Australia and beyond, Acts of Reckoning reframes the past in order to form new futures, and celebrates how much work is already underway. |
Subject |
Constitutional law -- Australia |
Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations |
Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc |
Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights |
Aboriginal Australians -- Politics and government |
Australian essays -- 21st century |
Slavery |
Matriarchy |
Geographic Name |
Australia -- Politics and government |
Australia -- Race relations |
Australia -- History |
Added Name |
Hay, Ashley, (editor). |
Reid, Teela, (editor). |
Added Corporate Name |
Griffith University (Australia), (issuing body). |