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Crossing Boundaries : Tracing Indigenous Mobility and Territory in the Exploration of South‑Eastern Australia
Konishi, Shino
Konishi, Shino
Author
Abstract
In ‘Expulsion, Exodus and Exile in White Australian Historical Mythology’, Ann Curthoys examined how Indigenous mobility was problematised in settler colonial discourses. She drew on Gamatj leader and former Australian of the Year Galarrwuy Yunupingu’s observation that Aboriginal people were derisively represented as aimless wanderers and nomads, perpetually on ‘walkabout’, while the colonists claimed for themselves the mantle of settlers and natives, ostensibly defending their homelands from marauding Aboriginal people.1 Curthoys highlighted the tension between movement and place, and the ways in which certain kinds of mobility or, to be more specific, the mobility of certain kinds of people—namely, nomadic Indigenous people—have been historically coded as ‘dysfunctional’ and ‘rootless’.
Keywords
Aboriginal History, Arts, Humanities, Cultural Studies, History, Social Sciences, Indigenous Studies
Date
2018
Type
Book chapter
Journal
Book
Indigenous Mobilities: Across and Beyond the Antipodes
Volume
Issue
Page Range
35-56
Article Number
ACU Department
Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences
Faculty of Education and Arts
Faculty of Education and Arts
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Open Access Status
Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access
License
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Controlled
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This edition © 2018 ANU Press.
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This title is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialNoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode