The Palgrave Handbook on Rethinking Colonial Commemorations

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I: RECOGNITION & REMEMBERING.- Chapter 2. Memorials to settler colonialism in Australia: racism, colonialism and white power.- Chapter 3. Koro and the statue: disrupting colonial amnesia and white settler sovereignty in Aotearoa New Zealand.- Chapter 4. Space and place: cultural heritage and colonial commemoration at Australian tertiary institutions.- Chapter 5. Toppling the racist Anglo-Saxon politics of Cecil Rhodes.- Chapter 6. The dark side of Canadian history: a two-eyed seeing approach.- Chapter 7. "It's not a day for you": Indigenous Australians and the 'disruption' of Anzac Day.- Chapter 8. Reflections on Representation, Remembrance and the Memorial.-Chapter 9. Lest we forget: the Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner saga.- Chapter 10. Unwanted Endeavours and the reconstruction of Cook's world.- Chapter 11. How churches are framed and presented in the contemporary Sámi homeland of Finland to maintain colonial discourses.- Chapter 12. Colonial histories and artefacts: which way gender?.- Chapter 13. Monumental copper and coal: the case for including extractivism in the rethinking of colonial commemorations.- Part II: RESISTANCE & REIMAGINING.- Chapter 14. Holding dissonance, while disrupting narratives.- Chapter 15. Reason and reckoning: provocation and conversations about re-imaging Samuel Griffith's University.- Chapter 16. Comedic interventions: toppling monuments and dismantling myths in Rutherford Falls.- Chapter 17. Confederates and colonial commemoration in the United States: collective memory and counter-histories.- Chapter 18. The art of Daniel Boyd: decolonising Banks and Cook, challenging colonial commemoration.- Chapter 19. Asserting Indigenous agencies: constructions and deconstructions of James Cook in Northern Queensland.- Chapter 20. Futuring ruins: the grassroots design activism of the Department of Homo

Professor Bronwyn Carlson is an award-winning Aboriginal author, researcher and academic who lives on Dharawal Country in New South Wales. Bronwyn is the author of The politics of identity: who counts as Aboriginal today? (2016) and a well-known commentator on the place of colonial monuments. She is a co-author of Monumental Disruptions: Aboriginal People and Colonial Commemorations in So-Called Australia (2023). She is the founder and editor of The Journal of Global Indigeneity and the Director of the Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Head of the Department of Indigenous Studies at Macquarie University and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Dr Terri Farrelly is an Adjunct Fellow and Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Department of Indigenous Studies at Macquarie University. She is a settler researcher and author whose work has been dedicated to Aboriginal suicidologies and addressing racism and discrimination through truth-telling. She is a co-author of Monumental Disruptions: Aboriginal People and Colonial Commemorations in So-Called Australia (2023).