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Monumental disruptions : Aboriginal people and colonial commemorations in so-called Australia / Bronwyn Carlson and Terri Farrelly.

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Record Number 21833
ISBN 9780855751159
Location 305.89 CAR
Author Carlson, Bronwyn, (author).
Title Monumental disruptions : Aboriginal people and colonial commemorations in so-called Australia / Bronwyn Carlson and Terri Farrelly.
Spine title Monumental disruptions
Published Canberra, ACT : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2023.
©2023.
Collation xvi, 336 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 23 cm.
Content types text
still image
Carrier type volume
General Note Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this book may contain images, names and descriptions of deceased persons, as well as their artwork.
Bibliography Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-331) and index.
Contents Note 1. Introduction : It takes courage to challenge colonial commemorations -- 2. An agenda of Black erasure and white permanence -- 3. Disrupting 'discovery' -- 4. Dishonouring murderers, thieves and intruders -- 5. Recognising the Frontier Wars -- 6. Calling out other colonial fictions -- 7. Acknowledging atrocities -- 8. 'To Native courage, honesty and fidelity' -- 9. Aboriginal assertions of survival and continuity -- 10. Conclusion : The 'unsettled' fates of colonial commemorations.
Summary Note What is the place of Australia’s colonial memorials in today’s society? Do we remove, destroy or amend? Monumental Disruptions investigates how these memorials have been viewed, and are viewed, by First Nations people to find a way forward. In June 2020, on the heels of Australia’s James Cook anniversary commemorations and statue-toppling Black Lives Matter protests in the USA, dozens of police were sent to guard a statue of Cook in Hyde Park, Sydney. Despite the police presence, two women spraypainted ‘sovereignty never ceded’ across the statue. Scenes like this are being repeated around the world as societies reassess memorials that no longer reflect today’s values. Should they be removed, destroyed or amended? Monumental Disruptions looks for answers. It investigates why commemorations were erected, their meaning for Aboriginal people in Australia, both then and now, and it compares Australia’s experience with that overseas. Those who question colonial commemorations have been called ‘UnAustralian’; but, in Australia, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities are working together to forge new ways to mark the past. This timely book is essential reading for anyone interested in how a society commemorates and acknowledges its complex history.
Subject Aboriginal Australians
Public sculpture -- Australia
Memorialization -- Social aspects -- Australia
Monuments -- Social aspects -- Australia
Postcolonialism -- Australia
Collective memory -- Australia
Geographic Name Australia -- Moral conditions
Australia -- Race relations
Australia -- History -- 21st century
Australia -- Colonial influence
Added Name Farrelly, Terri,(author).
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