“Find One of Your Own Kind”: Auto-ethnography and my Aboriginal Women Ancestors
This thesis is an exploration by Badimaya women in my family to interrogate constructions of identity as a decolonising process and generates an account of survival against colonial oppression. The common thread uniting these different strands was my own perspectives, or auto-ethnography which used...
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2017
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| author | Dowling, Carol Susan |
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| description | This thesis is an exploration by Badimaya women in my family to interrogate constructions of identity as a decolonising process and generates an account of survival against colonial oppression. The common thread uniting these different strands was my own perspectives, or auto-ethnography which used family stories as strong foundations for contemporary manifestations of a living, continuous indigenous culture. I was able to explore rich, deep and revealing content that documented a counter-colonial history in Australia. |
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| institution | Curtin University Malaysia |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-735852019-02-11T04:36:02Z “Find One of Your Own Kind”: Auto-ethnography and my Aboriginal Women Ancestors Dowling, Carol Susan This thesis is an exploration by Badimaya women in my family to interrogate constructions of identity as a decolonising process and generates an account of survival against colonial oppression. The common thread uniting these different strands was my own perspectives, or auto-ethnography which used family stories as strong foundations for contemporary manifestations of a living, continuous indigenous culture. I was able to explore rich, deep and revealing content that documented a counter-colonial history in Australia. 2017 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/73585 Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Dowling, Carol Susan “Find One of Your Own Kind”: Auto-ethnography and my Aboriginal Women Ancestors |
| title | “Find One of Your Own Kind”: Auto-ethnography and my Aboriginal Women Ancestors |
| title_full | “Find One of Your Own Kind”: Auto-ethnography and my Aboriginal Women Ancestors |
| title_fullStr | “Find One of Your Own Kind”: Auto-ethnography and my Aboriginal Women Ancestors |
| title_full_unstemmed | “Find One of Your Own Kind”: Auto-ethnography and my Aboriginal Women Ancestors |
| title_short | “Find One of Your Own Kind”: Auto-ethnography and my Aboriginal Women Ancestors |
| title_sort | “find one of your own kind”: auto-ethnography and my aboriginal women ancestors |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/73585 |