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Title: Difference Identity Makes, The: Indigenous Cultural Capital in Australian cultural fields
Author: ROWSE TIM
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/07/2019
Imprint: ABORIGINAL STUDIES PRESS
Price: $39.95
Publishing status: Active
Through the struggles of Indigenous Australians for recognition and self-determination it has become common sense to understand Australia as made up of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people and things. But in what ways is the Indigenous/non-Indigenous distinction being used and understood? In The Difference Identity Makes, thirteen Indigenous and non-Indigenous
academics examine how this distinction structures the work of cultural production and how Indigenous producers and their works are recognised and valued.
The editors introduce this innovative collection of essays with a path-finding argument that Indigenous cultural capital now challenges all Australians to re-position themselves within a revised scale of values. Each chapter looks at one of five fields of Australian cultural production: sport, elevision, heritage,visual arts and music, revealing that in each the Indigenous/non-Indigenous distinction has effects that are specific.
This brings new depth and richness to our understanding of what
Indigeneity can mean in contemporary Australia. In demonstrating the variety of ways that the ndigenous is made visible and valued the essays provide a powerful alternative to the deficit theme that has continued to haunt the representation of Indigeneity.
ISBN: 9781925302837
Dimension: 216mm X 140mm
Edition: 01