Paper short abstract:

Drawing upon doctoral research that uses auto-ethnographic narratives produced in the context of archaeological investigations, this paper will discuss how this reflexive approach allows for the silences and segregations within the settler-colonial Australian landscape to be illuminated.

Paper long abstract:

This paper draws upon doctoral research developed in collaboration with the Ngarrindjeri Nation, the Traditional Owners of the Lower Murray, Lake Alexandrina, Lake Albert and Coorong, South Australia (SA). This research draws on Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to explore the ways in which the production of archaeological knowledge is active in entanglements that exist beyond the boundaries of an archaeological 'site'. In exploring these entanglements, this research uses reflexive, auto-ethnographic narratives produced in the context of long-term archaeological investigations undertaken at Waltowa Wetland, a wetland area located on the eastern shores of Lake Albert. Using this reflexive approach, this presentation will discuss how the experiences of frontier violence and colonial segregation that remain invisible within the settler-colonial Australian landscape, percolate into and influence contemporary entanglements that form the broader network of archaeological practice.