ABSTRACT

The High Court's 1992 decision in Mabo v Queensland (No 2) is widely regarded as a seminal moment in Australia's legal and political history. The decision established a legal right to native title and placed Indigenous history and politics at the forefront of public debate. As this historiographical survey will demonstrate, the decision, and the public debate that followed it, also spurred significant discussion in the discipline of Indigenous history about how to write and represent Indigenous history, and the place of Indigenous history in national historical narratives. For some, Mabo encouraged an emphasis on negotiation and reconciling Indigenous and settler experiences to create new narratives about Australia's history and nationhood. For others, Mabo and the politics of reconciliation constituted a further appropriation of Indigeneity by settler Australians, underscoring the historical continuity of invasion and the need to transform the discipline of history to recognise Indigenous epistemologies and history-making.

摘要

高等法院 1992 年在Mabo v Queensland (No 2)案中的裁决被广泛认为是澳大利亚法律和政治史上的一个开创性时刻。该决定确立了对土著所有权的合法权利，并将土著历史和政治置于公共辩论的前沿。正如本次史学调查将展示的那样，该决定以及随之而来的公开辩论也引发了土著历史学科中关于如何书写和表现土著历史以及土著历史在民族历史叙事中的地位的重要讨论。对于一些人来说，马博鼓励强调谈判和调和土著和定居者的经历，以创造关于澳大利亚历史和国家的新叙事。对于其他人，马博 和解政治构成了澳大利亚定居者对土著的进一步挪用，强调了入侵的历史连续性以及转变历史学科以承认土著认识论和历史创造的必要性。