1st Edition
Southeastern Indigenous Australian Art as a Practice of Reclamation
By Amélie Marie Nadia Ward
Copyright 2027
160 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
Southeastern Indigenous Australian Art as a Practice of Reclamation examines how Indigenous communities in southeastern Australia reclaim Country within urban spaces through art. Focusing on Melbourne/Narrm a city built over drained wetlands and layered with colonial infrastructure, it follows the practices of Boon Wurrung artists Maree Clarke and Mitch Mahoney. Through multi-modal... Read more
Introduction: Sensing Narrm, Seeing Melbourne 1. River Reeds in the Maribyrnong River 2. Iuk/Eels Below Our Feet 3. “Into the Zone” 4. Working with Roadkill 5. Dreaming. Conclusion: Resistance (00′28)
Biography
Amélie Ward is an anthropologist, writer and teacher. Over the past decade she specialized in Indigenous resistance to settler-colonial worlds and in the field of sensory ethnography. She is currently a research associate at the Center for Ethnographic Studies at the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland. She is also a filmmaker and the general coordinator of the Commission for Audio Visual Anthropology at the Swiss Anthropological Association.
