With the first issue of ab-Original: Journal of Indigenous Studies and First Nations and First Peoples' Cultures, this editorial introduces a new and highly innovative addition to international scholarly engagements with Indigenous Studies and First Nations cultures and peoples around the globe. Indeed, this first editorial can be read as something of a manifesto. We map out both the intended purpose of our new journal and the intellectual terrain that we envisage will be discussed and debated within its pages in the years to come.
We think it fitting that ab-Original is hosted by the University of Sydney, the oldest and arguably most prestigious center of higher learning in Australia, located on the Country of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, ground zero of the invasion of the Australian continent by British colonialists that began in the eighteenth century. Moreover, the geographic location of Sydney and its university...
