Critical reading group
The Australian Centre ran a critical reading group each semester based on an academic text. This was an open reading group.
2025 Reading Group
In keeping with the Australian Centre’s focus on exploring the fragility, incoherence and contradictions of contemporary settler-colonial nationalisms, there are two chosen texts for the 2025 reading group:
Semester 1: Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine by Steven Salaita
Semester 2: Settler Military Politics Militarisation and the Aesthetics of War Commemoration by Federica Caso.
Dates: 4 times per semester, from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM on the last Monday of each month (excluding school holidays).
Online: Zoom link and readings are emailed along with a calendar invite.
Previous reading groups
Previous Reading Groups hosted by the Australian Centre
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Mapping Deathscapes: Digital Geographies of Racial and Border Violence, edited by Suvendrini Perera and Joseph Pugliese
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Semester 1 - Pollution Is Colonialism, Max Liboiron.
Semester 2 - Public Policy and Indigenous Futures, edited by Nikki Moodie and Sarah Maddison
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Semester 1 - Indigenous Futures and Learnings Taking Place, edited by Ligia (Licho) López López and Gioconda Coello
Semester 2 - Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States, Kevin Bruyneel
ISRC reading groups
Previous Reading Groups hosted by the previous incarnation, the Indigenous Settler Relations Collaboration
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Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies, edited by Brendan Hokowhitu, Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Linda Tuhiwai-Smith, Chris Andersen, Steve Larkin
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Semester 2 – Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition, Glen Coulthard
Winter Break – So white. So what, Alison Whittaker and Decolonisation is Not a Metaphor, Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang
Semester 1 – Questioning Indigenous-Settler Relations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, eds. Sarah Maddison and Sana Nakata
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Semester 2 – Indigenous and Decolonising Studies in Education: Mapping the Long View, eds. Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Eve Tuck and Wayne Yang
Semester 1 – As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson