Can historians tell the truth? The Uluru Statement from the Heart and the quest for a new history
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22024029 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ansel Wakamatsu (University of Technology Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2020-02-27 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | NEW Emerging scholars in Australian Indigenous Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2208-1232 • E-ISSN: 2208-1232 |
| Publisher | University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5130/nesais.v5i1.1557 |
| OpenAlex | W3015574670 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
Following the Uluru Statement from the Heart, historians are again tasked with ‘telling the truth’ about past human rights abuses in Australia. However, I argue that such a demand is too simplistic, and it is better to understand historians as producers of impermanent historical narratives which are embedded in public memory through the historian’s discursive authority and the authority of a supporting truth commission
Archaeology · Art · Commission · Environmental ethics · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Public history · Sociology · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |