An Indigenous Australian Dictionary of Biography
Book chapter
Konishi, Shino. (2019). An Indigenous Australian Dictionary of Biography. In 'True Biographies of Nations?’ The Cultural Journeys of Dictionaries of National Biography pp. 139-158 ANU Press. https://doi.org/10.22459/TBN.2019
Authors | Konishi, Shino |
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Abstract | Dictionaries of national biography are a long-established and significant genre of biographical and historical writing, existing in many forms across the globe. This book brings together practitioners from around the English‑speaking world to reflect on national biographical dictionary projects’ recent cultural journeys, and the challenges presented to them by such developments as the transition to a digital environment, a new alertness to the need to represent diversity, and the rise of transnationalism. Exploring their paths forward, the chapters of this book collectively make a powerful argument for the continued value and importance of large‑scale collaborative biographical dictionary research. An Indigenous Australian Dictionary of Biography (IADB) is a new Australian Research Council–funded research project I am leading with Malcolm Allbrook and Tom Griffiths, which seeks to redress the long-standing underrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people within the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) by doubling the number of Indigenous biographies within the online ADB, and producing a stand-alone published volume of Indigenous short biographies. Yet, rather than just producing 190 new entries, our aim is also to rethink how Indigenous biographies can be conceptualised, being attentive to how and why Indigenous biography is distinctive, and how Indigenous people, who have long been marginalised and excluded from the national imaginary, can now be better accommodated with the ADB, and hence be better incorporated within the national story. |
Keywords | Arts; Humanities; Biography; Autobiography; History |
Page range | 139-158 |
Year | 01 Jan 2019 |
Book title | 'True Biographies of Nations?’ The Cultural Journeys of Dictionaries of National Biography |
Publisher | ANU Press |
Place of publication | Australia |
ISBN | 9781760462741 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.22459/TBN.2019 |
Web address (URL) | https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/anu-lives-series-biography/true-biographies-nations |
Open access | Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Apr 2019 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 09 Feb 2024 |
Additional information | This edition © 2019 ANU Press. |
This title is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialNoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/9027q/an-indigenous-australian-dictionary-of-biography
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