Acknowledging Country Through Soft Tone 2018 - Resource List

ACKNOWLEDGING COUNTRY: Resource List What does it mean to acknowledge Country?

How do we consider the land we live and work on.

How do our bodies acknowledge this place (here and now).

Artists Katina Olsen & Lizzie Thomson’s 2018 research project asked us all How do we acknowledge Country?

This is a list of resources they used in their research RESOURCES - Writings: Welcome to Country: Performing Rights and the Pedagogy of Place - Elizabeth Dempster Welcome to Country: Legal Meanings and Cultural Implications - Alessandro Pelizzon and Jade Kennedy Piercing the Ground - Christine Watson The Lie of the Land - Paul Carter The White Possessive - Aileen Moreton-Robinson Nourishing Terrains: Australian Aboriginal views of landscape and wilderness - Deborah Bird Rose Dingo Makes Us Human: Life and Land in an Australian Aboriginal Culture - Deborah Bird Rose Growing up White: Feminism, Racism and the Social Geography of Childhood - Ruth Frankenberg

Clancestry Conversation 3: Sovereignty Chair: Chelsea Bond Panellists: Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Ben Graetz, Pereki Ruska, Callun Clayton-Dixon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdjBMQ-0FPQ RESOURCES - Activity: Aboriginal Heritage Tour at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney https://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/visit/things-to-see-do/toursand-walks/aboriginal-heritage-tours GADI Exhibition at the Australian Museum Acknowledging Country – Soundscape Lizzie Thomson with Sonya Holowell

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