In this first introductory episode of the Resurgence podcast series, Laurie Bamblett, Senior Lecturer in Aboriginal History at the Australian National University, and lead researcher on the Beyond Reconciliation project, talks about the concept of ‘resurgence’.

To find out more about Laurie’s work check out his book, based on his PhD thesis, Our stories are our survival, first published in 2013 by Aboriginal Studies Press — which as he describes in this episode was inspired by the great storytellers in his community.

Laurie’s entries on ‘Nangar’ also known as Jimmy Clements and 'Ooloogan’ also known as John Noble are available through the Australian Dictionary of Biography online:

https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/nangar-33736

https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ooloogan-33760

This podcast series was developed from work done through the Beyond Reconciliation project in the School of History at ANU, as part of the Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Grand Challenge (2021–2024). This was one of five ‘Grand Challenges’ mounted by the ANU with the aim to invest in transformative research to impact on the world’s most intractable problems.

The Beyond Reconciliation project was a response to the demand for a thorough-going process of truth-telling about Australia’s past. The central idea of the project was to support capacity building to pursue history-making and truth-telling in local Indigenous communities. The challenge was to work in different ways with different communities to model pathways to ‘telling the true stories they want to tell in the ways they want to tell them’.

For more information on the Beyond Reconciliation project see:

https://history.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/acih/highlights/beyond-reconciliation-grand-challenge

The podcast series Resurgence: talking about First Nations’ Community-led Historical Practice was produced by Robyn McKenzie, for the Australian Centre for Indigenous History (ACIH) in the School of History at the Australian National University. Sound editing and composition by Emma Hoy of Signal Creative. This Podcast series has been supported by funding from the Australian National University’s Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Grand Challenge.

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