How early Australian settlers drew maps to erase Indigenous people and push ideas of colonial superiority
- Written by Imogen Wegman, Lecturer in Humanities, University of Tasmania
National Library of Australia: 31258061The new Netflix series Shadow and Bone opens with cartographer Alina Starkov crammed into the back of a rumbling wagon, sketching a war-torn landscape. A flashback to her childhood in an orphanage shows her looking at a map of a conflict zone.
A guardian tells her, “keep a pencil in your hand, or else...
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