The politics of identity : who counts as Aboriginal today? / Bronwyn Carlson
- Bib ID:
- 8167566
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Carlson, Bronwyn, author
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- National edeposit: Available onsite at the National Library of Australia
- Description:
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- Canberra, A.C.T. : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2016
- 1 online resource (301 pages) : illustrations.
- ISBN:
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- 192205996X
- 1922059978
- 1922059986
- 9781922059970
- 9781922059987
- 9781922059994
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- EBSCOhost ebooks online
- Summary:
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This award-winning work explores the complexities surrounding contemporary Aboriginal identity. Drawing on a range of historical and research literature, interviews and surveys, The Politics of Identity explores Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal understandings of Aboriginality and the way these concepts are produced and reproduced across a range of sites and contexts. Carlson discusses the multiple, yet narrow definitions of Aboriginal identity that have existed throughout Australias colonial history and its continuing impact upon contemporary Aboriginal identities. Emphasizing Indigenous debates and claims about Aboriginality, the work explores both the community and external tensions around appropriate measures of identity and the pressures and effects of identification. An analysis of online Indigenous communities on social media that have emerged as sites of contestation adds to the growing knowledge in this area, both nationally and globally. This is a brave and personal contribution to the often vexed subject of Aboriginal identity and offers a distinctive and fresh line of analysis.
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- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Constructing the Aborigine ; CHAPTER 2 Positioning 'Part-Aboriginal' People ; CHAPTER 3 Challenging the Colonial Aborigine ; CHAPTER 4 Quantifying Aboriginality by Acculturation, Adaptation and Allegiance ; CHAPTER 5 The Changing Meaning of Aboriginal Identity ; CHAPTER 6 Shifts in the Social and Political Context ; CHAPTER 7 Discovering and Reconstructing Aboriginal Identity; CHAPTER 8 Beyond the Discourse; CHAPTER 9 Confirmation of Aboriginality.
- CHAPTER 10 Conflict, Community and the Regulation of Aboriginal IdentityCHAPTER 11 Community Discourse on the Confirmation of Aboriginality and Aboriginal Identity: a Case Study; CHAPTER 12 Researching the Politics of Identity; CHAPTER 13 Identity Journeys: When Aboriginal Heritage Was Always Known; CHAPTER 14 Identity Journeys: Discovering Aboriginal Heritage ; CHAPTER 15 The Continuing Contest over the Definition of Aboriginal Identity; CHAPTER 16 Learning and Performing an Aboriginal Identity; CHAPTER 17 Tensions at the Cultural Interface.
- CHAPTER 18 Aboriginal Identity, Community and Social MediaConcluding Remarks; References; INDEX.
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- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-287)
- English.
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- Also Titled:
- Who counts as Aboriginal today?
- Copyright Information:
- © Bronwyn Carlson 2016
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
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- Published
- Publication date:
- 2016
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