The Series Editors, Distinguished Professor Larissa Behrendt, Dr Simone Bignall, Professor Daryle Rigney and Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith are pleased to support the publication of this important new book series at Rowman and Littlefield International publishers.
ABOUT THE SERIES
Indigenous Nation Building and Governance (INBG) showcases new thinking about Indigenous nation building and decolonisation in the regional contexts of Australia, Aotearoa-New Zealand and other countries of the Southern Pacific Rim. Attending critically to legacies of settler-colonialism in this region, the series supplements and enriches scholarship emerging from Indigenous perspectives and experiences in the United States, Canada and other Occupied Territories. The Indigenous-led and Indigenous-centred research appearing in this series explores the diverse ways in which Indigenous authorities are designing and utilising modern political institutions that match their cultural values and assert a continuing right and responsibility to care for traditional lands and waters. Conceived through the optic of the political, ‘Indigenous Nation Building and Governance (INBG)’ publishes innovative and important research that studies the transformative potential of cross-cultural interaction, collaboration and agreement-making to successfully mediate culturally diverse political interests and values in settler-colonial jurisdictions. The series contributes new thinking about the reparation of historical injustice and the terms and future conditions of positive coexistence after colonisation.
THE CHILDREN'S COUNTRY: CREATION OF A GOOLARABOOLOO FUTURE IN NORTH-WEST AUSTRALIA
By Stephen Meuke and Paddy Roe
ABOUT THE BOOK
In North-West Australia, between 2009 and 2013, a major Indigenous environmentalist alliance waged a successful campaign to stop a huge industrial development, a $45 billion liquefied gas plant proposed by Woodside and its partners. The Western Australian government and key Indigenous institutions also pushed hard for this, making the custodians of the Country, the Goolarabooloo, an embattled minority.
This experimental ethnography documents the Goolarabooloo's knowledge of Country, their long history of struggle for survival, and the alliances that formed to support them. Written in a fictocritical style, it introduces a new 'multirealist' kind of analysis that focuses on institutions (Indigenous European), their spheres of influence, and how they organised to stay alive as alliances shifted and changed.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Stephen Mueke is professor of creative writing at Flinders University and is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Recent books are Bruno Latour and the Humanities, edited with Rita Felski, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020 and The Mother's Day Protest and other Fictocritical Essays, Rowman and Littlefield International, 2016.
Paddy Roe, OAM (c1912-2001) was a Goolarabooloo Elder and Law man from Broome. He published, with Stephen Muecke, Gularabulu: Stories from the West Kimberley (1983) and with Krim Benterrak and Stephen Mueke, Reading the Country (1984). He started the famous Lurujarri Heritage Trail in 1987 as a way of protecting Country by teaching people how to understand it.
TRAPPED BY HISTORY: THE INDIGENOUS-STATE RELATIONSHIP IN AUSTRALIA
By Dr Darryl Cronin
ABOUT THE BOOK
This book describes the political history of the Indigenous struggle for justice in Australia from the colonial policy era of segregation and assimilation through to the present day. It emphasises Indigenous efforts at dialogue and provides a framework for understanding reconciliation from an Indigenous political perspective. Produced by an Indigenous Australian scholar with personal experience of negotiation with Australian governments in the context of the struggle for land rights, this new title is ideally recommended reading for undergraduate students in Australian Studies, Indigenous Studies, Politics and Government, Cultural Studies, Critical Anthropology and History.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Darryl Cronin is a senior researcher with the Edmund Rice Centre for Justice and Community Education in Sydney, Australia.
The book is currently available for order with a 30% discount using the code RLFANDF30. For more information or to order the book please visit Rowman and Littlefield.
DEVELOPING GOVERNANCE AND GOVERNING DEVELOPMENT: INTERNATIONAL CASE STUDIES OF INDIGENOUS FUTURES
Edited by Diane Smith; Alice Wighton; Stephen Cornell and Adam Vai Delaney
ABOUT THE BOOK
Globally, far too many discussions about Indigenous governance and development are dominated by accounts of disadvantage, deficit and failure. This book paints a different international picture, testifying to Indigenous peoples as agents of governance innovation and successful developers in their own right, telling stories in their own words, from their own experiences and countries. From Indigenous voices, we hear alternative concepts and measures of effectiveness, legitimacy, success and sustainability.
Indigenous stories and voices are captured as case study chapters, written in lively, clear language about what is happening that is promising and productive in Indigenous self-determined governance for self-determined development in Canada, Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and the USA; all English colonial–settler countries.
The series is published and available for purchase from Rowman and Littlefield.
If you have an idea for a new book that you think would be suited to publication in the Indigenous Nation Building and Governance (INBG) series at Rowman and Littlefield please contact Simone Bignall.