ABSTRACT

This article provides a personal and anecdotal reflection on the question of a future for Australian studies. It briefly recounts the history and signification of the interdisciplinary descriptor “Australian studies” and its political and social context from the late 1980s. In particular, it emphasises the importance of Indigenous and constitutional foundations to any new Australian studies and its shaping of knowledge. The anecdotal topics I explore include Indigenous writers, the national capital's inflection of Australian studies, Garma, Global South film studies and Australia's geographical relations to the Pacific, the Indian Ocean and the North. It argues that modelling a new Australian studies needs to countenance the idea that Australia has to be begun again.

摘要

本文对澳大利亚研究的未来问题进行了个人和轶事反思。它简要叙述了跨学科描述“澳大利亚研究”的历史和意义，以及 1980 年代后期的政治和社会背景。特别是，它强调了土著和宪法基础对任何新的澳大利亚研究及其知识塑造的重要性。我探讨的轶事主题包括土著作家、国家首都对澳大利亚研究的影响、Garma、全球南方电影研究以及澳大利亚与太平洋、印度洋和北方的地理关系。它认为，为新的澳大利亚研究建模需要支持澳大利亚必须重新开始的想法。