We borrowed these six categories from a value-reporting mechanism used in the corporate sustainability sector, The Integrated Reporting Framework.ĭark Emu was one of around 20,000 books published in Australia in 2014. They were: financial (the primary way our culture measures a book’s success), but also social, human, intellectual, manufactured and natural. We tracked the impact of the original edition of Dark Emu over five years, from 2014 to 2019, to look at how it contributed to (or otherwise altered) six categories of value, or “capital”. In the original publisher’s press release, Pascoe described it as a book “about food production, housing construction and clothing”.īy mid-2021, seven years later, it had sold an impressive 250,000 copies.īut sales are just one way to demonstrate the success, or value, of a book. Indeed, it suited settler-colonists, Pascoe argues, to fail to recognise Indigenous agricultural practices as organised, intelligent land management. RMIT University provides funding as a strategic partner of The Conversation AU.Īustralian National University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU.īruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu, first published in 2014, represents that rare bird in small press and independent publishing in Australia: a long-term sales success.ĭark Emu attempts to debunk the idea that pre-European Aboriginal people were purely “hunter-gatherers”. Millicent Weber does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. She is currently the Executive Secretary/Treasurer for the Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI). She is a member of the Australian Society of Authors.īronwyn Coate has been a recipient of funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) and the Australia Council for the Arts. Julienne van Loon has been a recipient of funding from Creative Victoria, ArtsWA and the Australia Council for the Arts.
Senior lecturer, Australian National University Senior Lecturer in Economics, RMIT University Associate Professor, Writing and Publishing, School of Media & Communication, RMIT University
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