Providing an international reference work written solely by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors, this book offers a powerful overview of emergent and topical research in the field of global Indigenous studies. It addresses current concerns of Australian Indigenous peoples of today, and explores opportunities to develop, and support the development of, Indigenous resilience and solidarity to create a fairer, safer, more inclusive future. Divided into three sections, this book explores: • What futures for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples might look like, and how institutions, structures and systems can be transformed to such a future; • The complexity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island life and identity, and the possibilities for Australian Indigenous futures; and • The many and varied ways in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples use technology, and how it is transforming their lives. This book documents a turning point in global Indigenous history: the disintermediation of Indigenous voices and the promotion of opportunities for Indigenous peoples to map their own futures. It is a valuable resource for students and scholars of Indigenous studies, as well as gender and sexuality studies, education studies, ethnicity and identity studies, and decolonising development studies.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Part 1: Future Worlds 1. The future is Indigenous 2. Foreign policy futures 3. A certain wisdom: ‘living law’ before ‘more, more, more’ 4. Staying with the fire: sustainable futures using Indigenous Knowledges 5. Settler colonialism, Jews and Indigenous peoples: theorising homelands as a point of connection in Indigenous-Jewish relations in so-called Australia 6. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inclusion in the workplace: challenging racist policy and practice 7. There is no such thing as a blank slate: accountability in decolonising universities 8. Indigenous voice as self-determination: co-designing a shared future for all Australians 9. Fuel, flame and smoke: on Indigenous fantasy 10. The voice of Country: our obligation and responsibility to listen 11. Indigenous futures for subject English: a profile of practice Part 2: Intimacies, relationalities and locating ourselves 12. Unsettling the settler state and being on the frontline of Indigenous resistance 13. Visual liberations and embodiments of ancestral memory: exploring the relational engagements of Indigenous queer artists 14. Utopianism, eco-criticism and colonial fantasy: Germain Greer’s White Beech as a case study in settler futurity 15. Yarning with the archives 16. Digital Indigiqueers: locating queer mob in the literature 17. The edge of the tide: exploring the complexities and futures of Aboriginality from the critical perspectives of Indigenous researchers 18. Our young people are our future: cultural continuity and the Illawarra Flame Trees 19. Be(com)ing in the city: Indigenous queer relationalities and community building 20. Indigenous futures and deep time connections to place 21. The question, or who asks for evidence of queerness in Aboriginal culture? 22. Future Tweed: envisioning the possibilities of Bundjalung Country, community and culture through speculative fiction 23. The museum of the imagination: curating against the colonial insistence on diminishing Indigeneity 24. Lessons on decoloniality from Blak and Black Sahulian ecologies and the Aboriginal philosophy of Everywhen Part 3: Digital futures 25. The future of Australian Indigenous records and archives is social 26. Beyond zeroes and ones: walking the daisy talk with D’harawal Elders to understand their (dis)connection with internet services 27. Digital futures: health-seeking on social media 28. Indigenous studies and the future of knowledge formation in higher education 29. Digital Indigenous oral knowledge 30. Reflections on Indigenous LGBTIQ+ communities online