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Can historians tell the truth? The Uluru Statement from the Heart and the quest for a new history

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: 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.

Source: NEW Emerging scholars in Australian Indigenous Studies

DOI: 10.5130/nesais.v5i1.1557

Author: Ansel Wakamatsu

Institution: University of Technology Sydney

Language: English

Topic: Australian History and Society

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W3015574670

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