In the company of a guide: guidebooks to Indigenous Australia

This article examines travel guidebooks to Indigenous Australia, focussing on predominantly Aboriginal-authored texts. Acknowledging the body of work that has critiqued guides as mediators oppressive cultural discourses, it is much concerned with risks inherent in these texts, interested their potential sites authorship and reading enable anti-colonial ambitions. Two questions animate discussion. First: what extent are Aboriginal consistent conventional understandings reconciliation between non-Indigenous Australians? And second, how do texts influence tourist activity ways respect sovereignty? While not providing a definitive answer either questions, article, nevertheless, opens up an examination performed by during period rapid change politics race Australia.