Emeritus Professor of History and Digital Humanities, University of Tasmania

In a recent article, Timothy Neale and Emma Kowal persuasively suggest that current decolonisation initiatives in post-settler societies can usefully be understood as situated within a spectrum between what they describe as ‘epistemic’ and ‘reparative’ attributes and qualities in how they go about the business of coming to terms with the still pervasive and still to be overcome psychic and material legacies of settler colonialism.

Oct 16, 2020 4 min read

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Turnbull, Paul

February 2016 In The Australian Library Journal

Managing and mapping the history of collecting indigenous human remains

This article discusses the e-Scholarship Research Centre’s contribution of informatics expertise and technology to a major three-year research project funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC). The project, Return, Reconcile, Renew, aimed to advance knowledge and understanding of the repatriation to Indigenous communities of ancestral human remains and related important cultural property. Project participants include three major Indigenous Australian community organisations (the Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Cultural Centre , Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority and the Torres Strait Regional Authority, university and Indigenous community-based researchers in Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Northern America, the Australian Federal Government’s Indigenous Repatriation Unit, and a number of cultural and research institutions nationally and internationally.

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