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Interculturality, postethnicity and the Aboriginal Australian policy future
Citation
Moore, TC, Interculturality, postethnicity and the Aboriginal Australian policy future, Ethnicities, 16, (5) pp. 712-732. ISSN 1468-7968 (2016) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1177/1468796815584422
Abstract
Though now under some challenge, the policy orthodoxy in Australian Aboriginal affairs
since the 1970s has been progressive in its social justice orientation, postcolonial in its
amelioration of the colonial legacy, and culturalist in its privileging of ethnicity. In this
paper I argue that its attempt to recover the past in the face of increasing postethnicity
is becoming counter-productive, by stultifying cultural adaptation and compromising
individuals’ capacity to engage with modernity. The notions of interculturality and postethnicity
point to coexisting ancestral cultures, an imagined, symbolic national
Aboriginality, and deep intersection with settler-Australia and the world, and so cultural
‘changing-sameness’ and simultaneous ‘bothness’. The paper argues that a dialectic of
public policy and Aboriginal identity politics resists this lived reality, with negative
effects. It proposes that a way forward is to engage more fully with the lived reality.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | Aboriginal, interculturality, postethnicity, public policy, identity politics, intercultural governance |
Research Division: | Indigenous Studies |
Research Group: | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing |
Research Field: | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy |
Objective Division: | Law, Politics and Community Services |
Objective Group: | Government and politics |
Objective Field: | Public services policy advice and analysis |
UTAS Author: | Moore, TC (Dr Terry Moore) |
ID Code: | 100874 |
Year Published: | 2016 (online first 2015) |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 4 |
Deposited By: | School of Humanities |
Deposited On: | 2015-06-02 |
Last Modified: | 2017-11-06 |
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