Reimagining Australia, Part 1 & 2.
Guest Editors: Baden Offord, Thor Kerr, Rob Garbutt, Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes, Elfie Shiosaki, Misty Farquhar and Dean Chan
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This special double issue of Coolabah, numbers 24 & 25, was developed from selected presentations at Reimagining Australia: Encounter, Recognition, Responsibility, the International Australian Studies Association (InASA) Conference 2016, hosted by the Centre for Human Rights Education, Curtin University, and held in Fremantle, Western Australia, on 7-9 December. The double issue addresses the urgent need for Australia to be reimagined as inclusive, conscious of its landscape and contexts, locale, history, myths and memory, amnesia, politics, cultures and futures; reimagined via intense conversations and inter-epistemic dialogue; reimagined through different ways of knowing, belonging and doing. Key agendas, polemics and contestations at stake in this two-part publication project are raised in Tony Birch’s thought-provoking article that serves equally as an introductory essay.
Table of Contents
Articles
FOREWORD TO REIMAGINING AUSTRALIA, PART 1
Baden Offord et al
INTRODUCTORY ESSAY: “On what terms can we speak?” Refusal, resurgence and climate justice
Tony Birch
Thinking for place in Australia: Owning the occupation
Rachel Joy
Re-imagining Australian citizenship: Australian values and allegiance to Australia
Maria Chisari
Reimagining belonging: The quest of Africans for relational belonging and the Australian requirement of integration
Yirga Woldeyes
Reimagining Italian-Australian identities through soccer: Critical notes on a history of Italian soccer clubs in Perth
Fausto Butta
Re-remembering Australia: Public memorials sharing difficult knowledge
Alison Atkinson-Phillips
Reimagining Australia via disability and media: Representation, access and digital integration
Katie Ellis, Mike Kent, Scott Hollier, Shawn Burns, Gerard Goggin
Broken forms: Prose poetry as hybridised genre in Australia
Paul Hetherington, Cassandra Atherton
Tracing the Girls: Reimagining the immigrant past
Carol Millner
Japanese ancestors, non-Japanese family, and community: Ethnic identification of Japanese descendants in Broome, Western Australia
Yuriko Yamanouchi
“They were afraid to speak”: Testimonies of Aboriginal women at the 1934 Moseley Royal Commission
Elfie Shiosaki
Searching for the in-between: Developing Indigenous holistic approaches to cultural heritage assessment and interpretation
Sarah Yu
Resistance and visibility: How technology has promoted activism from Australia’s black sites
Michelle Bui
FOREWORD TO REIMAGINING AUSTRALIA, PART 2
Baden Offord et al
A case for reimagining Australia: Dialogic registers of the Other, truth-telling and a will to justice
Dean Chan, Misty Farquhar, Rob Garbutt, Thor Kerr, Baden Offord, Elfie Shiosaki, Yirga Woldeyes
Reimagining Australia at the cosmopolitan intersection
Greg Watson
One Day in Fremantle: TV representation of this alternative to Australia Day
Shapen Cox, Thor Kerr
Teaching the welcoming of diversity and difference in a contemporary Australian university
Lekkie Hopkins, Lucy Hopkins
From rhetoric to learning: Bridging the disconnect between policy and teaching practice around Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia in the Australian primary education system
Majon Williamson Kefu
The impact of targeted educational programmes on academic outcomes for African students in Western Australia
Kwadwo Adusei-Asante
Reimagining the cultural significance of wetlands: From Perth’s lost swamps to the Beeliar Wetlands
Danielle Brady, Jeffrey Murray
On the ground: Reimagining community protection of the ecosphere in the Northern Rivers
Yvonne Hartman, Sandy Darab
The aftermath of rape: Innovative approaches to understanding sexual violence against Australian women and children
Brenda Downing
Writing on thresholds: Ali Cobby Eckermann’s Inside My Mother
Molly Murn
Queering and querying the Australian suburbs: Reimagining (sub)urban identities
Nicholas Manganas