Australian Aboriginal Studies (AAS) Journal 2021 (Issues 1 and 2)

Australian Aboriginal Studies (AAS) is a peer-reviewed journal that combines academic rigour with research excellence. The journal advances qualitative academic scholarship of significance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in established and emerging fields of humanities and social sciences in contemporary and historic Australian contexts.

The journal is published twice a year by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). 

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Production Details

Issue 1

• paperback
• 246mm x 189mm (paperback)
• 78pp
• Released October 2021
• ISBN 2370001589537

Issue 2

• paperback
• 246mm x 189mm (paperback)
• 116pp
• Released July 2021
  
• ISBN 2370000884534 (print)
  

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Content

Issue 1

Major Articles

Data for action: The Family and Community Safety for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples (FaCtS) Study

Katherine Thurber, Emily Colonna, Shavaun Wells, Minette Salmon, Bianca Calabria, Anna Olsen, Jill Guthrie, Makayla-May Brinckley, Rubijayne Cohen, Naomi Priest, Emily Banks, Matthew Gray, and Raymond Lovett, on behalf of the FaCtS Team

Aboriginal Redfern then and now: between the symbolic and the real

Heidi Norman

‘Pride of Yarrabah’: Yarrabah’s annual sports days as historical Aboriginal spaces

Gary Osmond

Archiving First Nations media: the race to save community media and cultural collections

Daniel Featherstone, Claire Stuchbery, Sharon Huebner, Lyndon Ormond-Parker, Andrew Dodd

Book reviews

Robert Malcolm Ward Dixon
Australia’s original languages: an introduction
(Reviewed by Alan Rumsey)

Samia Khatun
Australianama: the South Asian odyssey in Australia
(Reviewed by Tandee Wang)

Issue 2

Major articles

Facilitating dialogue to support Ganma: a methodology for navigating contested knowledge

Genevieve Thraves, Miriam Dhurrkay, Penelope Baker, Jeanette Berman and Adele Nye

Country, community and Indigenous research: a research framework that uses Indigenous research methodologies (storytelling, deep listening and yarning)

Francis Bobongie-Harris, Danièle Hromek and Grace O’Brien

Ngapartji Ngapartji: intercultural dramaturgies for Indigenous language revitalisation

Claire French and Jakelin Troy

Paddy Compass Namadbara and Baldwin Spencer: an artist’s recollection of the first commissioned Aboriginal bark paintings in Oenpelli, 1912

Joakim Goldhahn, Luke Taylor, Paul SC Taçon, Sally K May and Gabriel Maralngurra

‘Everyone tried to make their little garden and taught how to live like white people’ — Manatunga: Robinvale’s transitional housing settlement

Maria Panagopoulos

Agreement without compromise: maintaining the integrity of Indigenous sovereignty in negotiations with governments

Lisa Strelein

Book reviews

Fiona Foley

Biting the clouds: a Badtjala perspective on the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, 1897

(Reviewed by Kathryn Ridge)

Terri Janke

True tracks: respecting Indigenous knowledge and culture

(Reviewed by Daniel Robinson)

Anne Maree Payne

Stolen motherhood: Aboriginal mothers and child removal in the Stolen Generations era

(Reviewed by Heidi Norman)