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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Performing Identities : Celebrating Indigeneity in the Arts
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'Performing Identities brings together essays by scholars, artists and activists engaged in understanding and conserving rapidly disappearing local knowledge forms of indigenous communities across continents. It depicts the imaginative transactions evident in the interface of identity and cultural transformation, raising the issue of cultural rights of these otherwise marginalized communities.' (Publication summary)

Contents

* Contents derived from the New York (City), New York (State),
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Americas,
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Routledge , 2017 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Storying Sovereignty and ‘Sustainable Self-Determination’ in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria and Warwick Thornton’s Samson and Delilah, Julie Mullaney , single work criticism
'Documenting the limited success of land rights alone in securing the basic infrastructure for indigenous people, such that they might 'enjoy' those rights, and 'grow the land', Tracker Tilmouth's warnings about the dangers of ignoring both the structural aspects of indigenous disadvantage and the cultivation of local processes in addressing it, appeared not in 2007, when the plot of the Australian federal government's Northern Territory (`national emergency') intervention into remote indigenous communities came to light, but in 1997, in the introduction to an anthology of writings compiled by Alexis Wright (1998) for the Central Land Council.' Preceding the intervention's belated interest in questions of indigenous security, health (itself 'one of the most highly politicized domains of Indigenous affairs in Australia') (Sutton 2009: 115) and well-being, Tilmouth acknowledges how the (politico-legal) battle for land rights may have distracted the parties engaged from the larger project of creating and supporting a 'sustainable self-determination' (Corntassel 2008: 105-32) for indigenous Australians. Acknowledging that `sustainable development Implies meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs' (Ibid.: 105). the Native American scholar Jeff Comtassel promotes the idea of developing a 'sustainable self-determination' in order to emphasize the necessity of 'a more holistic and dynamic approach to regenerating indigenous nations' and as a means to combat the ways in which, as he sees it, the dominant framing of self-determination rights as 'political/ legal entitlements' have 'de-emphasised the responsibilities and relationships that indigenous people have with their families and the natural world that are critical for the health and well being of future generations' (ibid.). For Comtassel, 'sustainable self-determination' must become a 'benchmark for the restoration of indigenous livelihoods and territories' and for future political agitation (ibid.: 109). Tilmouth's emphasis on building upon successful local Indigenous models is shared by Comtassel who documents how discourses of sustainability have, in the past, often worked against the greater good of indigenous. He argues that 'what Is considered sustainable practice by states comes at a high price for indigenous communities, often leading to the further degradation of their homelands and natural resources (ibid.: 108). Consequently, he suggests, the time has come for indigenous peoples to reassert sustainability on their teams. If Tilmouth's comments in 1997 anticipate a renewed focus on 'indigenous' ecosystems, his emphasis on the enjoyment of land rights reflects too the permutations marking the major documents and instruments that articulate the ambitions of both local and transnational indigenous movements, not least the United Nations (UN) 'Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples' which reiterates the right of indigenous to 'be secure in the enjoyment of their own means of subsistence and development. and to engage freely in all their traditional and other economic activities'. I don't mean to suggest here that the UN's formulation captures the fullness of indigenous ambitions, for such documents are always a compromise, the product of a coalition of diversely oriented interests and agreements/disagreements. Rather, I mean to denote a continuity of emphasis across spheres of interest, local and transnational. (Introduction)

 
Indigenous Knowledge and Global Translation : Reconstruction of Australia through Aboriginal Imagination in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria, Sei Kosugi , single work criticism
'This chapter was originally tided 'Negotiation between the Local and the Global in Literary Production in Oceania: Should It Be Translated?' at the time of its presentation. The presentation mainly focused on the more literal dimension of translation, the problem of how to use indigenous languages in English writings and the possibility of forming literature as a new kind of contesting ground for multicultural cross reading by referring to several plays and works of fiction written in English, Maori and Samoan. The latter half of the presentation, which was intended to be a discussion on more metaphorical dimensions of cultural translation of the indigenous knowledge system, was curtailed due to the time limit. This paper focuses on that part, analyzing a post-colonial ecological novel by an Aboriginal writer of multi-ethnic descent. We can see in the novel a post-colonial theme of indigenization of Western culture and the negotiation of an indigenous voice and a global, pan-indigenous identity. It also gives an insight into the creative imagination necessary for the sustainability of an indigenous community in this age of globalization.' (Introduction)
 

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Routledge ,
      2017 .
      image of person or book cover 8408914568803951163.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 392p.
      Note/s:
      • Published November 28, 2017
      ISBN: 9780815373193
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