ABSTRACT

Providing an international reference work written solely by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors, this book offers a powerful overview of emergent and topical research in the field of global Indigenous studies. It addresses current concerns of Australian Indigenous peoples of today, and explores opportunities to develop, and support the development of, Indigenous resilience and solidarity to create a fairer, safer, more inclusive future. 

Divided into three sections, this book explores: 

• What futures for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples might look like, and how institutions, structures and systems can be transformed to such a future;

• The complexity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island life and identity, and the possibilities for Australian Indigenous futures; and 

• The many and varied ways in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples use technology, and how it is transforming their lives. 

This book documents a turning point in global Indigenous history: the disintermediation of Indigenous voices and the promotion of opportunities for Indigenous peoples to map their own futures. It is a valuable resource for students and scholars of Indigenous studies, as well as gender and sexuality studies, education studies, ethnicity and identity studies, and decolonising development studies.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

part I|172 pages

Future worlds

chapter 1|17 pages

The Future is Indigenous

chapter 3|15 pages

A Certain Wisdom

‘Living Law' before ‘More, More, More'

chapter 4|9 pages

Staying with the Fire

Sustainable futures using Indigenous Knowledges

chapter 5|17 pages

Settler Colonialism, Jews, and Indigenous Peoples

Theorising homelands as a point of connection in Indigenous-Jewish relations in so-called Australia

chapter 6|22 pages

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Inclusion in the Workplace

Challenging racist policy and practice

chapter 7|21 pages

There is No Such Thing as a Blank Slate

Accountability in decolonising universities

chapter 8|19 pages

Indigenous Voice as Self-Determination

Co-designing a shared future for all Australians

chapter 9|10 pages

Fuel, Flame and Smoke

On Indigenous fantasy

chapter 10|13 pages

The Voice of Country

Our obligation and responsibility to listen

chapter 11|13 pages

Indigenous Futures for the Subject of English

A profile of practice

part II|185 pages

Intimacies

chapter 13|15 pages

Visual Liberations and Embodiments of Ancestral Memory

Exploring the relational engagements of Indigenous queer artists

chapter 14|16 pages

Utopianism, Eco-Criticism and Colonial Fantasy

Germaine Greer's White Beech as a case study in settler futurity

chapter 15|14 pages

Yarning with the Archives

chapter 16|13 pages

Digital Indigiqueers

Locating queer mob in the literature

chapter 17|16 pages

The Edge of the Tide

Exploring the complexities and futures of Aboriginality from the critical perspectives of Indigenous researchers

chapter 18|16 pages

Our Young People are Our Future

Cultural Continuity and the Illawarra Flame Trees

chapter 19|11 pages

Be(com)ing in the City

Indigenous queer relationalities and community building

chapter 22|14 pages

Future Tweed

Envisioning the possibilities of Bundjalung Country, community and culture through speculative fiction

chapter 23|10 pages

The Museum of the Imagination

Curating against the colonial insistence on diminishing Indigeneity

part III|83 pages

Digital futures

chapter 26|18 pages

Beyond Zeros and Ones

Walking the daisy talk with D'harawal Elders to understand their (dis)connection with internet services

chapter 27|17 pages

Digital Futures

Health-seeking on social media