Publisher: Oro Editions 2018, Author: Kevin O'Brien, ISBN: 9781943532568, Format: Softcover, 28 x 23.5 cm, 256pp
Our Voices II: The DE-colonial Project will showcase decolonising projects which work to de-stable and disquiet colonial built environments. The land, towns, and cities on which we live have always been Indigenous places yet, for the most part our Indigenous value sets and identities have been disregarded or appropriated. This book is a follow up to Our Voices, and is authored by indigenous Australian, NZ, Canadian and USA authors. Indigenous people continue to be gentrified out of the places to which they belong and neo-liberal systems work to continuously subjugate Indigenous involvement in decision-making processes in subtle, but potent ways. However, we are not, and have never been cultural dopes. Rather, we have, and continue to subvert the colonial value sets that overlay our places in important ways.