The Politics of Identity

Who Counts as Aboriginal Today?

By: Bronwyn Carlson

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Paperback | 1 June 2017

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In this award-winning work Carlson 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.

Carlson points to the multiple, yet narrow definitions of Aboriginal identity that have existed throughout Australia's colonial history and its continuing impact upon contemporary Aboriginal identities. 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. Extracted in Inside Story.

About the Author

Bronwyn Carlson is an Aboriginal woman who was born on and lives on D’harawal Country in NSW Australia. In 2013 she was awarded the prestigious Stanner Award by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies for her doctoral research on the politics of identity.

She is the first Indigenous Australian at the University of Wollongong to be granted an Australian Research Council, Discovery Indigenous award in 2014 for her research on Aboriginal identity and community on social media. She is currently an Associate Professor in Indigenous Studies at the University of Wollongong.

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