Overview
This book is the very first empirical work about Indigenous people in their twenties in Australia
Brings important themes to light, including modern Christianity, schooling experiences, alcohol and other drug use, early childbearing, and the everyday experiences of violence and patriarchy among Indigenous Australians
Provides a sharp account of differentiated Indigenous politics and anti-politics
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Background
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The Ethnographic Fieldwork at Yarrabah
Keywords
About this book
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 men in their twenties. With the aim of exploring how diverse social discourses have influenced the social identities of young Indigenous people in contemporary Australia, this book represents the life histories of these young people in Yarrabah in the context of both the institutions with which they interact and the everyday shape of life in Yarrabah. This volume also provides new material for discussion of the ways in which Indigenous value systems, broadly understood by the participants to be based on collectivism, constantly come into conflict with Western values based on individualism. While the young Indigenous people of Yarrabah do continuously interact not only with multi‑cultural Australia but also with global influences, they are constantly aware of their own distinctiveness in both contexts.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Hae Seong Jang has been a visiting researcher at the Centre for Australian Studies of the institute of East and West Studies in Yonsei University and a lecturer at the Catholic University of Korea and Yonsei University where she respectively has taught the undergraduate unit, ‘Gender and culture in contemporary Korean society’, and the postgraduate unit, ‘Korean modernity and modern culture’. She has co-edited a book (with Professor Lee in Yonsei University), published in 2013, and titled, “Understanding Contemporary Australian society II”
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Identities of Young Indigenous People in Contemporary Australia
Book Subtitle: Neo-colonial North, Yarrabah
Authors: Hae Seong Jang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15569-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-15568-5Published: 04 May 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38371-2Published: 17 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-15569-2Published: 20 April 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 244
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 55 illustrations in colour
Topics: Anthropology, Cultural Studies