It can take an enormous intellectual effort for non-Indigenous people (such as this reviewer) to grasp Indigenous concepts of time. This is partially due to what Aileen Moreton-Robinson has described as the incommensurability of Indigenous and Western epistemological approaches. In settler-colonial terms, land is a resource to be appropriated, surveyed, and exploited. Temporality is generally used ... (read more)
Leonie Stevens
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Leonie Stevens is descended from Irish and German settlers. She is the author of six novels, including Nature Strip and The Marowack Two, a range of short fiction, and has edited two anthologies. The Australian Culture Wars of the early 2000s ignited a passion for true stories, and she turned to academia, studying history and archaeology. Her most recent book is Me Write Myself: The free Aboriginal inhabitants of Van Diemen’s Land at Wybalenna. She is a Research Fellow on the Global Encounters and First Nations Peoples project at Monash University.