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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 The Politics of Identity : Who Counts as Aboriginal Today?
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The author 'explores the complexities surrounding Aboriginal identity today. 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 are produced and reproduced across a range of sites and contexts.'

'Emphasising Indigenous debates and claims about Aboriginality, The politics of identity 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.' (Source: Publisher's website)

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    • Canberra, Australian Capital Territory,: Aboriginal Studies Press , 2016 .
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      Extent: 256p.
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      • Publication date 01 Apr 2016
      ISBN: 9781922059963 (pbk)

Works about this Work

Why Write? Timmah Ball , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 79 no. 1 2020;

'There was a Facebook message from Hetti Perkins, which was an odd coincidence. I was working on a poem about her late father Charlie for a collection, which I would later abandon as I grew aware that I lacked the precision for poetry. The early interest I had attracted leading to these opportunities was more about a literary industry driven to uncover diverse new voices than an acknowledgement that with hard work and patience I might become a great writer. Attention that provided motivation but pushed emerging writers in directions at once exhilarating, confusing and premature. At the time I was considering using the title ‘Peeling’ for the poetry chapbook when I noticed her message. The poem was about her father’s role in the Nancy Prasad incident, where a five-year-old Fijian girl was deported to Fiji, symptomatic of Australia’s racist immigration policies of the 1960s.' (Introduction)

Whither Indigeneity in Australia? Yin Paradies , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Postcolonial Studies , vol. 20 no. 2 2017; (p. 258-261)

'Within public zeitgeist and policy paraphernalia alike, recent years have seen a steady rise in an already ever-present fascination with fixing Indigeneity to suit intensely felt (but variegated) yearnings from the far left to the far right of the political spectrum and everywhere in between. Two recent efforts to chart this treacherous terrain hail from the distinct vantage points of sociology and critical legal studies.'  (Introduction)

Whither Indigeneity in Australia? Yin Paradies , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Postcolonial Studies , vol. 20 no. 2 2017; (p. 258-261)

'Within public zeitgeist and policy paraphernalia alike, recent years have seen a steady rise in an already ever-present fascination with fixing Indigeneity to suit intensely felt (but variegated) yearnings from the far left to the far right of the political spectrum and everywhere in between. Two recent efforts to chart this treacherous terrain hail from the distinct vantage points of sociology and critical legal studies.'  (Introduction)

Why Write? Timmah Ball , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 79 no. 1 2020;

'There was a Facebook message from Hetti Perkins, which was an odd coincidence. I was working on a poem about her late father Charlie for a collection, which I would later abandon as I grew aware that I lacked the precision for poetry. The early interest I had attracted leading to these opportunities was more about a literary industry driven to uncover diverse new voices than an acknowledgement that with hard work and patience I might become a great writer. Attention that provided motivation but pushed emerging writers in directions at once exhilarating, confusing and premature. At the time I was considering using the title ‘Peeling’ for the poetry chapbook when I noticed her message. The poem was about her father’s role in the Nancy Prasad incident, where a five-year-old Fijian girl was deported to Fiji, symptomatic of Australia’s racist immigration policies of the 1960s.' (Introduction)

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