ASP e-newsletter – Issue 20, Winter/Spring 2011

ASP’s new e-newsletter helps keep you up to date with our new publications. We’ve just updated our mailing lists and we hope you enjoy the newsletter. Of course, if you don’t want to receive this information any more, just send us an email with the word Unsubscribe in the subject line.


Breaking news


ASP’s new academic catalogue is now available. This is a valuable resource for teaching academics. Visit http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/asp/welcome.html, or call 02 6246 1183 to be sent a copy.


The biennial National Indigenous Studies Conference runs from 19–22 September. It promises to be a busy and exciting program: http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/research/conf2011/conf2011.html


The new Stanner Award was awarded in July 2011 and the winner was Dr Hannah McGlade for her manuscript, ‘Aboriginal child sexual assault and the criminal justice system’, www.aiatsis.gov.au/news/Stanner2011.html.


Judges Professors Lester-Irabinna Rigney (2011 NAIDOC Scholar of the Year), Deborah Bird Rose and Jane Simpson judged the manuscript both ‘courageous and timely’. ASP looks forward to working closely with Dr McGlade and publishing the manuscript. ASP hopes to publish one or two other manuscripts that were submitted.


The AIATSIS journal, Australian Aboriginal Studies, edition 2011/1 is available. Subscriptions can be renewed here: http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/asj/asj.html


ASP held a successful bookstall at the National Native Title Conference in Brisbane in June, http://wired.ivvy.com/event/XN9D35PCN.


ASP will be participating in the 11th National Editor’s Conference in Sydney in September, http://www.editorsnsw.com/conference2011.html
Two ASP titles, Aboriginal Darwin and Aboriginal Sydney are being translated into Chinese. ASP will be seeking to publish the books, either in Australia or China.


Meet the authors


Debbie Bird Rose and Payi-Linda Ford (Country of the Heart) will be appearing at the Brisbane Writers’ Festival on 8 and 10 September. See the festival program here: http://www.brisbanewritersfestival.com.au/default.asp?PageID=195.


Associate Professor Russell McGregor’s new book, Indifferent Inclusion, will be launched at the Mary Who? Bookshop in Townsville on 3 October. More information about this exciting new book here, http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/asp/aspbooks/RussellMcGregor.html


Also coming this year


September: Indifferent Inclusion. The book focuses on the quest for Aboriginal inclusion in the Australian nation in the middle four decades of the twentieth century. Of particular interest is the way McGregor challenges existing scholarship and assumptions, particularly around assimilation, http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/asp/aspbooks/RussellMcGregor.html


‘Russell McGregor is one of the foremost scholars in the field of Aboriginal history. The very title of the book breaks new ground because of the questions implicit in its approach…his perspective is genuinely fresh and insightful. Historian, Mark McKenna.


October: Patrick Sullivan’s new publication, Belonging Together, describes current


Indigenous affairs policy in Australia, concentrating on the period since the abolition of ATSIC. Sullivan’s approach, based on years of research, is different from other writing on the subject, http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/asp/aspbooks/belongingtogether.html.


‘Indigenous affairs is constantly in the news but commentary on current policy has been left mainly to political pundits and point scorers. This book fills a gap by describing policy changes and their underlying philosophy since 2004.’ Professor Pat Dodson.


Just published


Legends: The AFL Indigenous Team of the Century, Sean Gorman. ASP has had strong media support and good sales. This is a powerful book of biographies and social history revealing the capacity for social inclusion, wellbeing and change through sport, www.aiatsis.gov.au/asp/aspbooks/LegendsAFL.html and www.aiatsis.gov.au/news/AFLLegendsLaunch.html.


Country of the Heart, Deborah Bird Rose. A new edition revealing the connections between Aboriginal people and the land that has sustained them for generations: Wagait country in the Northern Territory. As Payi-Linda Ford says: ‘Country gives us our identity.’ http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/asp/aspbooks/Country.html.


Joan Martin (Yaarna), as told to Bruce Shaw was launched by Associate Professor Kim Scott at Curtin University’s Centre for Aboriginal Studies. Joan’s stories reveal interconnected themes: visiting family, teaching bush lore to her children, passing on Dreaming stories, celebrating culture through her art, along with conflicts with mining companies and white bureaucracies. A poignant balance is maintained between her love of country with its expression through her art, and the victories and mischance of her life, http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/asp/aspbooks/JoanMartin.html


ASP support for school teachers


ASP’s free teacher resources address both state-based and the new national curriculum. They provide a step-by-step way of using these vital resources in the school room, http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/asp/educators.html


AIATSIS resources


Among the AIATSIS Library’s online resources is the new Koori Mail online collection, www.aiatsis.gov.au/koorimail/ir.html. For more free content and resources, visit www.aiatsis.gov.au/collections/exhibitions.html.


As well as the forthcoming National Indigenous Studies conference, the Research Program’s current and past seminar series are available via webcasts, http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/research/seminars.html.


To keep up to date in the fast-evolving area of native title, or to subscribe to their free publications, visit Native Title Research Unit publications, http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/ntru/overview.html


LATEST RELEASES

LegendsLegends: the AFL Indigenous Team of the Century
Sean Gorman

RRP $34.95, ISBN 9780855757786

The sports ground can be a forbidding place for Indigenous sportsmen and women. This book is about Indigenous men who have courageously and spectacularly met the challenges of Australian rules footy and succeeded at the very elite level. — Professor Mick Dodson, NCIS, ANU

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dialogue

Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal people and the Australian nation
Russell McGregor

RRP $39.95, ISBN 9780855757793 ISBN ebook: (PDF) 9780855757823, (ePub) 9780855757854

Russell McGregor is one of the foremost scholars in the field of Aboriginal history. The very title of the book breaks new ground because of the questions implicit in its approach…his perspective is genuinely fresh and insightful. — Associate Professor Mark McKenna, University of Sydney

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dialogue

Belonging Together: Dealing with the politics of disenchantment in Australian Indigenous policy
Patrick Sullivan

RRP $39.95, ISBN  9780855757809

Indigenous affairs is constantly in the news but commentary on current policy has been left mainly to political pundits and point scorers. This book fills a gap by describing policy changes and their underlying philosophy since 2004. In this challenging book, Patrick Sullivan suggests the Australian public is disenchanted with Aboriginal Australia. He argues for a reengagement that would enhance the settler peoples’ sense of belonging. — Patrick Dodson, Professor of Indigenous Policy University of New South Wales

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FORTHCOMING BOOKS

australiaAustralia
William Blandowski’s illustrated encyclopaedia of Aboriginal life
Edited by Harry Allen
Contributions by Mark Dugay-Grist, Luise Hercus and Brook Andrew

Due late August 2010
PB RRP $60.00 incl. GST, ISBN 9780855757137
HB (leather and cloth bound, with slipcase) RRP $140.00, ISBN 9780855757175

ASP’s vision has been to publish a high-quality facsimile of Blandowski’s 150 year-old work, to which they’ve added essays by an Aboriginal archaeologist and artist, and a linguist and historian of science.

By reading Australia in 2010, we become on-the-spot participants in moments of ‘first contact’.

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sydneyAboriginal Sydney
A guide to important places of the past and present, 2nd Edition
Melinda Hinkson and Alana Harris

RRP $29.95, ISBN 9780855757137

November 2010 will see the second edition of this popular guide to Sydney released – at a reduced price of $29.95 RRP.

Like the first edition, this second edition is both authoritative and informative; a guide book and an alternative social history.

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FREE RESOURCE FOR EDUCATORS

Read an excerpt of Terri Janke's paper, Who Owns the Story, with its clear discussion of Indigenous cultural expression and copyright, http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/asp/docs/WhoOwnsStory.pdf

ASP’s tertiary catalogue has now been updated for 2010. Includes areas of study where books are being used.

To keep up to date in the fast-evolving area of native title, or to subscribe to their free publications, visit Native Title Research Unit publications.

The Research Program also publishes widely, including free online papers and books. Visit Research Publications to see the full range. Their seminar series are now available as webcasts and you can pose your questions to the speakers.

You can listen online to the 2010 Wentworth lecture given by the Hon. Sir Michael Kirby AC, CMG.