Published Resources Details
Edited Book
- Title
- Dhoombak goobgoowana: a history of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne - Volume 1: The Truth
- Imprint
- Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Vic., 2024, 528 pp
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780522881059
- Url
- https://www.mup.com.au/books/dhoombak-goobgoowana-paperback-softback
- Subject
- History of Human Sciences
- Format
- Description
A free ebook version is avialable from the above URL.
In five sections: Place; Human Remains; Settler-Colonial Knowledge; Indigenous Knolwedge; Conclusion. Includes: Acknowledgements; Contributor biographies; List of illustrations; and Index. Each chapter has its own footnotes..
- Abstract
Quote from MUP website:
"Melbourne's oldest university confronts its long, complex and troubled relationship with the Indigenous people of Australia.
Dhoombak Goobgoowana acknowledges and publicly addresses the long, complex and troubled relationship between the Indigenous people of Australia and the University of Melbourne. It is a book about race and how it has been constructed by academics in the University. It is also about power and how academics have wielded it and justified its use against Indigenous populations, and about knowledge, especially the Indigenous knowledge that silently contributed to many early research projects and collection endeavours.
By appropriating Wurundjeri land for its buildings, and accepting donations drawn from the proceeds of colonisation of Indigenous Country, the University of Melbourne advertised its superiority as a whole institution to Indigenous people. Within its buildings, academics and students explored a worldview that effectively banished Indigenous knowledge and culture."
- Source
- cohn 2024
Related Published resources
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- Jones, Ross L, 'Place' in Dhoombak goobgoowana: a history of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne, Ross L. Jones, James Waghorne and Marcia Langton, eds (Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 2024), pp. 3-5, https://www.mup.com.au/books/dhoombak-goobgoowana-paperback-softback. Details
- Jones, Ross L, 'Human remains' in Dhoombak goobgoowana: a history of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne - Volume 1: The Truth, Ross L. Jones, James Waghorne and Marcia Langton, eds (Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 2024), pp. 95-106. https://www.mup.com.au/books/dhoombak-goobgoowana-paperback-softback. Details
- 'Settler-colonial knowledge' in Dhoombak goobgoowana: a history of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne - Volume 1: The Truth, Ross L. Jones, James Waghorne and Marcia Langton, eds (Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 2024), pp. 181-310, https://www.mup.com.au/books/dhoombak-goobgoowana-paperback-softback. Details