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True tracks : respecting indigenous knowledge and culture

by Terri Janke

Meriam and Wuthathi lawyer Dr. Terri Janke provides a framework for the ethical engagement and protection of Indigenous cultural and intellectual property. This guide offers practical protocols for industries to respectfully collaborate with Indigenous communities.

Accession 9781742236810 ISBN 9781742236810 Publisher UNSW Press

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1. **Indigenous Cultural & Intellectual Property (ICIP)**
At its core, the book is a comprehensive legal and ethical framework for understanding who owns Indigenous cultural expression — from art and music to language and design. Janke, a specialist ICIP lawyer, examines how existing intellectual property law often fails to protect Indigenous cultural assets, and what reform and new protocols could look like.

Connect to books about: intellectual property law, copyright theory, cultural property rights, heritage law.

2. **Cultural Appropriation & Ethical Engagement**
The book directly confronts the long history of non-Indigenous individuals and institutions taking from Indigenous cultures without permission, credit, or compensation. Janke provides practical frameworks for distinguishing respectful collaboration from exploitation across industries including fashion, tourism, art, and publishing.

Connect to books about: cultural appropriation, cross-cultural ethics, postcolonial theory, creative industries.

3. **Indigenous Self-Determination & Sovereignty**
A thread running throughout the book is the right of Indigenous peoples to control, manage, and strengthen their own cultural life — rather than having that culture defined, consumed, or regulated by outsiders. Janke argues that self-determination is inseparable from cultural sovereignty.

Connect to books about: Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination, decolonisation, political rights of First Nations peoples.

4. **Traditional Ecological Knowledge & Biocultural Rights**
The book dedicates significant attention to bush foods, traditional medicine, and the intersection of Indigenous knowledge with Western science — raising questions about who benefits when ancient ecological knowledge is commercialised or incorporated into research and industry.

Connect to books about: ethnobotany, bioprospecting, traditional ecological knowledge, environmental justice.

5. **Decolonising Research & Education**
Janke challenges the conventions of academic research and formal education, arguing that Indigenous communities must have a voice in how knowledge about them is gathered, interpreted, and taught. She calls for research methodologies grounded in Indigenous protocols and community consent.

Connect to books about: decolonising methodologies, Indigenous research ethics, critical pedagogy, academic colonialism.

6. **Language, Narrative & Indigenous Voice**
The book examines who controls Indigenous languages and storytelling — including in literature, film, and television — and how amplifying authentic Indigenous voices in these spaces is an act of cultural reclamation as much as a creative one.

Connect to books about: Indigenous literature, language revitalisation, narrative sovereignty, representation in media.

7. **Archives, Museums & Cultural Collections**
Janke interrogates the role of galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM institutions) in holding — and often gatekeeping — Indigenous cultural materials, raising ethical questions about access, repatriation, and community ownership of collections.

Connect to books about: museum ethics, repatriation, archival theory, Indigenous collections management.

8. **Digital Technologies & Indigenous Futures**
The book looks at how digital technologies create both new risks (easier misappropriation of cultural content) and new opportunities (community-controlled digital archives, encrypted ledgers for art co-ops) for Indigenous cultural protection and innovation.

Connect to books about: digital heritage, data sovereignty, technology ethics, Indigenous digital futures.

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