“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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Main Author: Dowling, Carol Susan
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/73585
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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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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
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“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