The Palgrave Handbook on Rethinking Colonial Commemorations

Professor Bronwyn Carlson is an Aboriginal woman who was born and lives in Dharawal Country in NSW, Australia.  Bronwyn has been awarded three consecutive Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Indigenous grants in 2013, 2016 & 2019 for research on Aboriginal identity and community.  Bronwyn was the recipient of the 2013 prestigious W.E.H. Stanner award administered by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and is the author of The Politics of Identity: Who Counts as Aboriginal Today?  Bronwyn is an active member of The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) and a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Sociology.  Terri Farrelly is an independent research consultant and an Adjunct Fellow in the Department of Indigenous Studies at Macquarie University.  She completed her doctoral studies in Aboriginal suicide, and her work in this field has been dedicated to promoting the need for Aboriginal suicidologies. Terri has worked extensively with many Australian government and non-government organisations, both Aboriginal and mainstream.  As a non-Aboriginal researcher working in Aboriginal research, her focus has been on encouraging mainstream organisations to improve the cultural competence of their service delivery and on supporting the further development of Aboriginal expertise in health and wellbeing research and development.  

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I: RECOGNITION & REMEMBERING.- Chapter 2. Memorials to settler colonialism in Australia: racism, colonialism and white power.- Chapter 3. Koro and the statue: disrupting colonial amnesia and white settler sovereignty in Aotearoa New Zealand.- Chapter 4. Space and place: cultural heritage and colonial commemoration at Australian tertiary institutions.- Chapter 5. Toppling the racist Anglo-Saxon politics of Cecil Rhodes.- Chapter 6. The dark side of Canadian history: a two-eyed seeing approach.- Chapter 7. "It's not a day for you": Indigenous Australians and the 'disruption' of Anzac Day.- Chapter 8. Reflections on Representation, Remembrance and the Memorial.-Chapter 9. Lest we forget: the Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner saga.- Chapter 10. Unwanted Endeavours and the reconstruction of Cook's world.- Chapter 11. How churches are framed and presented in the contemporary Sámi homeland of Finland to maintain colonial discourses.- Chapter 12. Colonial histories and artefacts: which way gender?.- Chapter 13. Monumental copper and coal: the case for including extractivism in the rethinking of colonial commemorations.- Part II: RESISTANCE & REIMAGINING.- Chapter 14. Holding dissonance, while disrupting narratives.- Chapter 15. Reason and reckoning: provocation and conversations about re-imaging Samuel Griffith's University.- Chapter 16. Comedic interventions: toppling monuments and dismantling myths in Rutherford Falls.- Chapter 17. Confederates and colonial commemoration in the United States: collective memory and counter-histories.- Chapter 18. The art of Daniel Boyd: decolonising Banks and Cook, challenging colonial commemoration.- Chapter 19. Asserting Indigenous agencies: constructions and deconstructions of James Cook in Northern Queensland.- Chapter 20. Futuring ruins: the grassroots design activism of the Department of Homo Affairs.- Chapter 21. 'It's just always been there': Rutherford Falls, monuments and settler colonial hegemony.- Part III: REMOVAL & RECTIFICATION.- Chapter 22. The need for context: archaeology's contribution to the 'statue wars'.- Chapter 23. Dis-placing white supremacy: intersections of Black and Indigenous struggles in the removal of the Roosevelt statue at the American Museum of Natural History.- Chapter 24. Edifying: the Deathscapes Project and the landscape of settler-colonial monumentality in Australia.- Chapter 25. The problem and potential of anti-Black monuments in museums.- Chapter 26. Local Empire: George Frampton's Leeds Queen Victoria Memorial.- Chapter 27. The struggle continues down south: dismantling of colonial monuments and symbols of colonialism and white supremacy.- Chapter 28. Standing strong: the renaming of Toronto Metropolitan University.-Chapter 29. The 'Crowther Reinterpreted' project.- Chapter 30. You can handle the truth: Aboriginal peoples, colonial commemorations and the unfinished business of truth-telling.