This site specific reading group took place in five historically and culturally significant and contested locations in Mparntwe/Alice Springs. Reading group members signed up to an open call distributed through social media.

We chose a selection of texts which address colonial ideologies of land use, their legacies in the racialisation of Australian urban space and how the political claims of subordinated groups can make space public to challenge these legacies.

By reading and discussing these texts in specific locations, we as a reading group were encouraged to discuss the connections or contradictions between theoretical concerns of the writings with our personal experiences and stories of different sites in Alice Springs, and to critically reflect on our own roles as non-indigenous people living and working in Mparntwe/Alice Springs.