Bronwyn Carlson Livres

In this award-winning work Carlson explores the complexities surrounding Aboriginal identity today. Drawing on a range of sources including 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 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 book explores the different colonial commemorations present in Australia today, andhow these related to Aboriginal peoples at the time of their creation, and how they relate toboth Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians today. It details the interesting storiesbehind many of these colonial commemorations and explores how Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities have worked together in an attempt to acknowledge and addressthe problems presented by these commemorations. By documenting these stories, thisbook honours the efforts and achievements of those Aboriginal and non-Aboriginalcommunities and individuals and identifies key elements of pathways forward that othercommunities may find useful.