Indigenous Nation-Building in Australia

Larissa Behrendt, Professor Miriam Jorgensen, Dr Alison Vivian, Professor Daryle Rigney, Damein Bell, Professor Steve Hemming, Professor Stephen Cornell

Format
Hardback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country
United Kingdom
Published
16 October 2025
Pages
240
ISBN
9781350441279

Indigenous Nation-Building in Australia

Larissa Behrendt, Professor Miriam Jorgensen, Dr Alison Vivian, Professor Daryle Rigney, Damein Bell, Professor Steve Hemming, Professor Stephen Cornell

This vital and timely book is the first sustained investigation of the creative strategies employed by two Australian Indigenous nations in re-asserting their sovereign capacities for self-determination. Continuing the remarkable history of Indigenous peoples resisting settler-colonialism, these nations echo the resurgence of collective cultural identity and political capacity evident across Australia.

Describing and comparing the governance innovations developed by Elders and leaders of the Gunditjmara People and the Ngarrindjeri Nation reveals the distinctive contributions made by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations to a worldwide movement of Indigenous nation rebuilding. Facing the realities of structuring and rebuilding Indigenous nationhood, the political techniques set out in Indigenous Nation-Building in Australia range from transforming localised instances of injustice to developing communities and protecting ancestral Country. By sharing these Australian Indigenous leaders' insights, this book provides practical, sophisticated and tested methods to further Indigenous self-government across the globe.

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