Prof Bain Attwood - Researcher Profile

Biography

Bain Attwood has published extensively in the history of colonialism. His sole authored books include The Making of the Aborigines (1989), Rights for Aborigines (2003) and Telling the Truth About Aboriginal History (2005). He has also done a jointly authored book with his colleague Andrew Markus, The 1967 Referendum (1997, revised edn 2007), and edited several collections of essays. He has held fellowships at the Australian National University (2001-03) and Cambridge University (2007-08), and has undertaken work for the National Museum of Australia, and has written occasionally on indigenous history for newspapers.

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: La Trobe

Year awarded: 2005

Publications

Books

Attwood, B.M., 2009, Possession: Batman's Treaty and the Matter of History, Miegunyah Press, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Attwood, B.M., Markus, A.B., 2007, The 1967 Referendum, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, Australia.

Attwood, B.M., 2005, Telling the Truth about Aboriginal History, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest NSW Australia.

Attwood, B.M., Markus, A.B., 2004, Thinking Black: William Cooper and the Australian Aborigines' League, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra ACT Australia.

Attwood, B.M., 2003, Rights for Aborigines, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest NSW Australia.

Attwood, B., 1999, 'My Country': A history of the Djadja Wurrung 1837-1864, Monash Publications in History, Clayton Vic Australia.

Attwood, B., Markus, A., 1999, The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights, Allen and Unwin, Sydney NSW Australia.

Attwood, B., Markus, A., 1997, The 1967 Referendum, or when Aborigines didn't get the vote, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra ACT Australia.

Book Chapters

Attwood, B., 2011, Settler histories and Indigenous pasts: New Zealand and Australia, in The Oxford History of Historical Writing Volume 5: Historical Writing Since 1945, eds Axel Schneider and Daniel Woolf, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 594-614.

Attwood, B., 2011, The Batman legend: Remembering and forgetting the history of possession and dispossession, in Storied Communities: Narratives of Contact and Arrival in Constituting Political Community, eds Hester Lessard, Rebecca Johnson and Jeremy Webber, University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, pp. 189-210.

Attwood, B., 2010, Historical controversies and the history wars in Australia, in Frontier Skirmishes: Literary and Cultural Debates in Australia after 1992, eds Russel West-Pavlov and Jennifer Wawrzinek, Universitatsverlag Winter, Heidelberg Germany, pp. 33-44.

Attwood, B.M., Griffiths, T., 2009, Frontier, race, nation, in Frontier, Race, Nation Henry Reynolds and Australian History, eds Bain Attwood and Tom Griffiths, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, pp. 3-52.

Attwood, B.M., 2009, Settling histories, unsettling pasts, in Historical Justice in International Perspective, eds Manfred Berg and Bernd Schaeffer, Cambridge University Press, New York USA, pp. 217-238.

Attwood, B.M., 2007, The Australian patient: traumatic pasts and the work history, in The geography of meanings: psychoanalytic perspectives on place, space, land, and dislocation, eds Maria Teresa Savio Hooke, Salman Akhtar, The International Psychoanalytical Association, United Kingdom, pp. 63-78.

Attwood, B.M., 2005, Rights, racism and Aboriginality: critics of assimilation in the 1950s and 1960s, in Contesting assimilation, eds Tim Rowse and Richard Nile, Network Books, Perth WA Australia, pp. 271-284.

Attwood, B.M., 2003, I Knew I Would Be Lonely for Them Always: Donald Thomson and Campaigns for Aboriginal Rights, in History on the Couch: Essays in History and Psychoanalysis, eds Joy Damousi and Robert Reynolds, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, pp. 96-105.

Attwood, B.M., 2002, The Officers: On the Ground, in Many Voices: Reflections on Experiences of Indigenous Child Separation, National Library of Australia, Canberra, pp. 139-159.

Attwood, B.M., Magowan, F., 2001, Introduction, in Telling stories: indigenous history and memory in Australia and New Zealand, eds Bain Attwood and Fiona Magowan, Allen &Unwin, Crows Nest NSW Australia, pp. xi-xvii.

Attwood, B.M., 2001, 'Learning about the truth': the stolen generations narrative, in Telling stories: indigenous history and memory in Australia and New Zealand, eds Bain Attwood and Fiona Magowan, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest NSW Australia, pp. 183-12.

Attwood, B.M., 2000, Space and time at Ramahyuck, Victoria, 1863-85, in Settlement: a history of Australian indigenous housing, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 41-54.

Attwood, B.M., 2000, The burden of the past in the present, in Reconciliation: essays on Australian reconciliation, Bookman Press, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 254-259.

Attwood, B., Markus, A., 1999, The fight for Aboriginal Rights, in The Australian Century: Political Sturggle in the Building of a Nation, Text, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 264-292.

Attwood, B., Markus, A., 1998, Representation Matters: The 1967 Referendum and Citizenship, in Citizenship and Indigenous Australians: Changing Conceptions and Possibilities, Cambridge University Press, Oakleigh Vic Australia, pp. 118-140.

Journal Articles

Attwood, B.M., 2012, The founding of Aboriginal History and the forming of Aboriginal history, Aboriginal History [P], vol 36, Aboriginal History Inc., Australia, pp. 119-171.

Attwood, B., 2011, Aboriginal history, minority histories and historical wounds: the postcolonial condition, historical knowledge and the public life of history in Australia, Postcolonial Studies [P], vol 14, issue 2, Routledge, Australia, pp. 171-186.

Attwood, B.M., 2008, In the age of testimony: The stolen generations narrative, distance, and public history, Public Culture, vol 20, issue 1, Duke University Press, United States, pp. 75-95.

Attwood, B.M., 2007, Thieves like us, Meanjin, vol 66, issue 3, Meanjin Company Ltd, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 99-104.

Attwood, B.M., 2006, Contesting frontiers: history, memory and narrative in a national museum, reCollections: Journal of the National Museum of Australia, vol 1, issue 2, National Museum of Australia, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 103-114.

Attwood, B.M., 2005, Unsettling pasts: reconciliation and history in settler Australia, Postcolonial Studies, vol 8, issue 3, Routledge, UK, pp. 243-259.

Attwood, B.M., 2004, The Law of the Land or the law of the land?: history, law and narrative in a settler society, History Compass, vol 2, issue May, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford UK, pp. 1-30.

Attwood, B.M., 2004, Whose dreaming?: reviewing the Review of the National Museum of Australia, History Australia, vol 1, issue 2, Monash University ePress, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 279-292.

Attwood, B.M., 2002, The Stolen Generations and Genocide: Robert Manne's In Denial: The Stolen Generations and the Right, Aboriginal History [P], vol 25, pp. 163-172.

Attwood, B., 2000, The articulation of "Land Rights" in Australia: the case of Wave Hill, Social Analysis: Journal of Cultural and Social Practice, vol issue 44 number 1, Social Analysis, University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA Australia, pp. 3-39.

Attwood, B., Markus, A., 1998, (The) 1967 (Referendum) and All That: Narrative and Myth, Aborigines and Australia, Australian Historical Studies, vol 29 no 11, Australian Historical Studies, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 267-288.

Conference Proceedings

Attwood, B.M., 2005, Anthropology, Aboriginality and Aboriginal rights, Donald Thomson, the Man and Scholar, 13 July 2001 to 15 July 2001, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 101-116.

Attwood, B.M., 2003, Historiography on the Australian frontier, Frontier Conflict: the Australian Experience, 12/12/2001-13/12/2001, National Museum of Australia, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 169-184.

Attwood, B.M., 2003, Introduction, Frontier Conflict: The Australian Experience, 12/12/2001-13/12/2001, National Museum of Australia, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 1-30.

Other

Attwood, B.M., 2005, 'Australian Aborigines' League', The Encyclopedia of Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 63-64.

Attwood, B.M., 2005, 'Batman's Treaties', Encyclopedia of Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne Vic Australia, p. 1.

Attwood, B.M., 2005, 'Coranderrk', Encyclopedia of Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne Vic Australia, p. 1.

Attwood, B.M., 2005, 'Reynolds, Henry', The Companion to Tasmanian History, Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies, Hobart Tas Australia, pp. 307-308.

Attwood, B.M., 2005, Victorian Aboriginal Group, The Encylopedia of Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne Vic Australia, p. 745.

Attwood, B.M., 2005, 'Victorian Aboriginal Grup', The Encyclopedia of Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne Vic Australia, p. 745.

Attwood, B., 1998, Aboriginal Missions, Contribution (200 words) to The Oxford Companion to Australian History, publisher Oxford University Press, South Melbourne Vic Australia.

Attwood, B., 1998, Aboriginal Protection, The Oxford Companion to Australian History, vol encyclopaedia, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 10-11.

Citizenship

• Australian citizen
• Citizen of New Zealand

Grants

Title:

A History of the Pilbara Aboriginal Strike as Event, Experience and Myth.

Investigators:

Attwood, B

Funding:

(2012 - 2016). Australian Research Council (ARC).

Title:

A matter of history: possession, colonialism and Batman's treaties. ID: DP0557757.

Investigators:

Attwood, B

Funding:

(2005 - 2009). Australian Research Council (ARC).

Title:

Aborigines, Australia and the Discourse of History 1770-1992.

Investigators:

Attwood, B

Funding:

(1997 - 2001). Australian Research Council (ARC).

Title:

Contesting Land Rights: Aboriginal and Non Aboriginal Histories of Batman's Treaty With Aborigines, 1835-2000.

Investigators:

Attwood, B

Funding:

(2000 - 2000). Australian Research Council (ARC).

Title:

Dispossession, history and restorative justice: a comparative study of three settler societies.

Investigators:

Attwood, B

Funding:

(2008 - 2011). Australian Research Council (ARC).

(2008 - 2012). Australian Research Council (ARC).

Title:

SMUTS Visiting Fellowship in Commonwealth Studies 2007 - 2008.

Investigators:

Attwood, B

Funding:

(2007 - 2011). University of Cambridge - SMUTS Memorial Fund.

Title:

The Struggle for Rights for Aborigines, 1870-1970.

Investigators:

Attwood, B

Funding:

(1999 - 1999). Australian Research Council (ARC).