"Memoirs of Settler Belonging in the Wake of Mabo"

HORÁKOVÁ, Martina. "Memoirs of Settler Belonging in the Wake of Mabo". In Mabo’s Cultural Legacy : The Mabo Decision, 25 Years On. An Interdisciplinary Workshop at the University of Stuttgart, November 16-18, 2017, Stuttgart. 2017.

Basic information

• Original name: "Memoirs of Settler Belonging in the Wake of Mabo"
• Authors: HORÁKOVÁ, Martina (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Mabo’s Cultural Legacy : The Mabo Decision, 25 Years On. An Interdisciplinary Workshop at the University of Stuttgart, November 16-18, 2017, Stuttgart, 2017.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Presentations at conferences
• Field of Study: 60206 Specific literatures
• Country of publisher: Germany
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/17:00099043
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Keywords in English: Mabo decision; Australia; settler memoirs; belonging
• Tags: rivok

Abstract

A quarter of a century ago, the High Court of Australia ruled in favour of a claim by a group of Indigenous Australians, led by Eddie Koiki Mabo, to customary, legal title (“native title”) to land. The Mabo decision of 1992 radically altered Australian law in its rejection of what the High Court judges called the “enlarged notion of terra nullius,” said to be the legal basis upon which the British occupied the land in 1788. Mabo shook the foundations of the majority, non-Indigenous population’s belief in the legitimate settlement of the continent by the British. More than any other event in Australia’s legal, political and cultural history, the Mabo decision has challenged ways of thinking about land, identity, belonging, and history.

Links

• MUNI/A/1065/2016, interní kód MU: Name: Profilace výzkumných zaměření v anglofonní lingvistické a literární vědě II (Acronym: VZALL2)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A