Conflict, Adaptation, Transformation
Richard Broome and the Practice of Aboriginal History
This collection traces the legacy of Richard Broome's pathbreaking work in Aboriginal history by presenting innovative work that assesses and transforms a broad range of important debates that have captured both scholarly and popular attention in recent years.
The book brings together a range of prominent and emerging scholars who have been exploring the contours of the field to make notable contributions to histories of frontier violence and missions, Aboriginal participation in sport and education, ways of framing relationships with land, and the critical relevance of Aboriginal life history and memoir to re-considering Australian history.
Readers will be interested in the novel arguments on Indigenous networks and mobilities, of memoirs and histories, frontier violence, massacres, and the History Wars, as well as Noel Pearson and issues of paternalism in Aboriginal politics.
Production Details
- Paperback
- 125mm x 140mm x 12mm
- 240pp
- Released March 2018
- ISBN 9781925302530
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About The Author
Ben Silverstein is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian National University, working on the Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship program titled ‘Rediscovering the Deep Human Past’, which engages with the long duration of Indigenous history in Australia. He has researched in colonial and Indigenous histories, on questions of race and settler colonialism, as well as contests over sovereignties and colonial government. He first taught Aboriginal History at La Trobe University. He is the editor of Conflict, Adaptation, Transformation: Richard Broome and the Practice of Aboriginal History (2018), and the author of Governing Natives: Indirect Rule and Settler Colonialism in Australia’s North (2019).
About The Cover
Cover Image: 'Land Lost, land stolen, treaty' 2016, Marlene Gilson (Wadawarrung), Purchased 2017, City of Melbourne Art and Heritage Collection. Photographer: Patrick Rodriguez.