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Misadventures with Aboriginalism
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Moore, T, Misadventures with Aboriginalism, Social Identities: Journal for The Study of Race, Nation and Culture, 17, (3) pp. 423-441. ISSN 1350-4630 (2011) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2011 Taylor & Francis.
DOI: doi:10.1080/13504630.2011.570979
Abstract
For 30 years the dominant approach to Aboriginal affairs in Australia has been to support cultural recovery and accommodate cultural difference in the expectation that this will enhance Aborigines’ and Torres Strait Islanders’ equality as citizens. This approach has been driven by a dialectic of progressivist desire to ameliorate the effects of earlier colonialist policy and Aboriginalist discourse that assumes isolable cultures, unitary identities and uni-directional causes of marginalisation. That discursive formation, once counter to dominant colonialist discourse, has now itself become normative, internally repressive, counter-productive and resistant to change. This is the national misadventure with Aboriginalism. This paper argues that this unexpected development is a product of the national governing attempt to gain control through public policy that is inadequate to Aborigines’ contemporary lived reality of interculturality, post-ethnicity and political agency. It uses an indicative case study and an analysis of the national misadventure to propose a deliberative intercultural approach to public policy in respect of Aborigines.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | Aborigines; pluralism; interculturality; post-ethnicity; deliberative |
Research Division: | Human Society |
Research Group: | Sociology |
Research Field: | Applied sociology, program evaluation and social impact assessment |
Objective Division: | Culture and Society |
Objective Group: | Other culture and society |
Objective Field: | Other culture and society not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Moore, T (Dr Terry Moore) |
ID Code: | 75980 |
Year Published: | 2011 |
Deposited By: | Riawunna |
Deposited On: | 2012-02-22 |
Last Modified: | 2012-06-20 |
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