The politics of recognition

Sara Borman

doi:10.5130/nesais.v2i1.1488

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Published: Feb 6, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5130/nesais.v2i1.1488

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Sara Borman

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When Charles Taylor wrote about the importance of seeing oneself reflected in the images that build a sense of identity, both internally and in the eyes of the onlooker (1997, pp. 25-26), he was writing about something that anybody could see the necessity of. I do not pretend to be able to understand the mosaic of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander experiences, but the patterns of erasure and stereotype that underpin systemic cultural oppression are echoed whenever marginalisation is something people try to maintain; for example, Taylor writes about feminist theorists with this idea of recognition and internalised oppression (1997, p. 25). The fact that anyone can then look at the prospect of constitutional recognition and feel ambivalent at the very least is genuinely upsetting to me.

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Borman, S. (2018). The politics of recognition. NEW: Emerging Scholars in Australian Indigenous Studies, 2(1), 105-106. https://doi.org/10.5130/nesais.v2i1.1488

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NEW: Emerging scholars in Australian Indigenous Studies, Volumes 2-3, Issue 1 (2016-17)

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