The inter-Indigenous encounter

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Why is it important?

To view the mobility of Indigenous Australians as constituting an ethical interaction within their own modes of knowledge-production is to counter the negative stereotypes that continue to percolate in Australia's imagination as to primitivism, parochialism, stasis, or immobility. That is to ignore festivals like GARMA in Arnhem Land, whereby Indigenous peoples from all over the world come together to meet and discuss pertinent issues for Indigenous peoples. We might think of global connectivity in terms of global economies, transnational corporations, jetsetting tourists, the United Nations, cruise-ships, and those who have access to online forums, but what if we imagine the connections of Indigenous peoples?