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This chapter provides an overview of the ongoing impact of colonial narrativesColonial narratives in settler societies, focusing on the Australian context. This epistemic violence has excluded, misrepresented, and silenced Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in this countryCountry. DeficitDeficit discourses about Aboriginal peoples, cultures, histories, and communities that pervade all aspects of society also reveal themselves through government and institution policies, structures, knowledges, and practices. This is evident in urban areas where Aboriginal people are seen to have “lost” their culture and connection to land and so justifies, in the colonial mindset, the denial of identity and culture. This chapter seeks to identify Aboriginal representations and responses to colonial narrativesColonial narratives. It achieves this by referring to an example of a significant Aboriginal-curated exhibition, ‘Unsettled’ held at the Australian MuseumAustralian Museum from 2021 to 2022 (and now available online https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/unsettled/ ). While continuing the emphasis on the importance of Aboriginal truth tellingTruth telling, the chapter also highlights the responsibility of non-Aboriginal people to develop and to learn how to listen and engage in practices of self-education and self-reflectionSelf-reflection in ways that do not situate the onus of learning and teaching solely onto Aboriginal peoples. This we argue, involves taking responsibility to develop  one’s cultural capabilityCultural capability (AIATSIS, 2020).This chapter aligns with the “community voice” dimension of the Learning From Country FrameworkLearning from Country Framework, revealing the significance of Aboriginal-ledAboriginal-led truth-telling, storyingStorying, and lived experience narratives that can be gleaned through learning to listen and learn.

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Listening to and Learning from Aboriginal Responses to Colonial Narratives

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    2025年

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  • Katrina Thorpe,
  • Cathie Burgess,
  • Suzanne Egan,
  • Valerie Harwood

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This chapter provides an overview of the ongoing impact of colonial narrativesColonial narratives in settler societies, focusing on the Australian context. This epistemic violence has excluded, misrepresented, and silenced Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in this countryCountry. DeficitDeficit discourses about Aboriginal peoples, cultures, histories, and communities that pervade all aspects of society also reveal themselves through government and institution policies, structures, knowledges, and practices. This is evident in urban areas where Aboriginal people are seen to have “lost” their culture and connection to land and so justifies, in the colonial mindset, the denial of identity and culture. This chapter seeks to identify Aboriginal representations and responses to colonial narrativesColonial narratives. It achieves this by referring to an example of a significant Aboriginal-curated exhibition, ‘Unsettled’ held at the Australian MuseumAustralian Museum from 2021 to 2022 (and now available online https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/unsettled/ ). While continuing the emphasis on the importance of Aboriginal truth tellingTruth telling, the chapter also highlights the responsibility of non-Aboriginal people to develop and to learn how to listen and engage in practices of self-education and self-reflectionSelf-reflection in ways that do not situate the onus of learning and teaching solely onto Aboriginal peoples. This we argue, involves taking responsibility to develop  one’s cultural capabilityCultural capability (AIATSIS, 2020).This chapter aligns with the “community voice” dimension of the Learning From Country FrameworkLearning from Country Framework, revealing the significance of Aboriginal-ledAboriginal-led truth-telling, storyingStorying, and lived experience narratives that can be gleaned through learning to listen and learn.