Monumental Disruptions : Aboriginal People and Colonial Commemorations in So-Called Australia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carlson, Bronwyn.

Contributor:

Farrelly, Terri.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians.

Memorials--Australia.

Memorials.

Australia--Colonial influence.

Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2023.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Endorsements

Dedication

Title page

Imprint page

Warning

Terminology

Contents

List of images

Acknowledgements

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

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Carlson, Bronwyn Monumental Disruptions

ISBN:

9780855751197

0855751193

9780855751210

0855751215

OCLC:

1369157567