Settler colonialism
Conference proceedings
Reckoning with settler colonial cities: SOAC 2021 conference track and abstracts
This SOAC 2021 conference track includes research papers, provocations, panel discussions, or other forms of knowledge sharing and creation related to understanding the conditions, mechanisms, practices and experiences of settler-colonial urbanism.
Conference paper
Centring, rather than connecting with, nature
This paper argues that the ‘living with nature’ movement and technocratic responses, such as Nature-based Solutions, are ideological fantasies of curation. Instead, this paper maintains that ecosystems must become the frames and bases for decision-making.
Book
On Taungurung Land: sharing history and culture
This publication is the first monograph to examine how the Taungurung Nation of central Victoria negotiated with protectors and pastoralists to retain possession of their own country for as long as possible. The book shares generational knowledge, in order to revitalise relationships to place and establish respect and mutual practices of care for Country.
Book
Labour lines and Colonial power: Indigenous and Pacific Islander labour mobility in Australia
This book argues that both Pacific Islanders and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands peoples made purposeful migrations to find work, reflective of rich cultures and histories of mobility.
Conference paper
Hidden landscapes: Aboriginal landscapes in contemporary planning and design activities in Melbourne
Throughout the colonial settlement of Australia, Aboriginal people were subject to processes of colonial dispossession that have had a profound effect on their communities, language and culture, and in many places their over-arching tangible and intangible Country.