Social Identities of Young Indigenous People in Contemporary Australia
This volume is about the social identities of young Indigenous people in contemporary Australia, based on fieldwork in the rural community of Yarrabah, in Queensland. This case study of Yarrabah is based on seventeen ethnographic interviews with women and
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Social Identities of Young Indigenous People in Contemporary Australia Neo-colonial North, Yarrabah
Social Identities of Young Indigenous People in Contemporary Australia
Hae Seong Jang
Social Identities of Young Indigenous People in Contemporary Australia Neo-colonial North, Yarrabah
Hae Seong Jang Yonsei University Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)
ISBN 978-3-319-15568-5 ISBN 978-3-319-15569-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-15569-2
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This book is gratefully dedicated to the people of Yarrabah
Preface
The discussion of the Indigenous youth in Australia is typically accompanied by the mass media reports in the press, especially the mainstream media, asserting that they would not escape the vicious circles within their marginalised condition, dependent or anomic. These reports impede our understanding of impacts and the ramifications of their isolation and social ostracism from non-Indigenous Australia. NonIndigenous society has tended to ignore the point that they have also been involved in or contributed to Indigenous people’s plight and socio-cultural difficulties in direct or indirect ways. Also, they overlook how the Indigenous youth’s socio-cultural identities are shaped by colonial, neo-colonial, and neo-liberal legacies and dynamics of livelihoods, their adaptation, and adoption in the twenty-first century Australian society. Further, scholars shed little light about rural and isolated regions such as Yarrabah in Queensland where I conducted research for this book. It is these nuances that this book explores in the context of Indigenous rural community at Yarrabah, one of the most marginalised Indigenous communities where
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