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Children’s Images of Identity

Drawing the Self and the Other

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  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. Jill Brown

    1. Monash University, Australia

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  2. Nicola F. Johnson

    1. Federation University, Australia

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  • This international study of drawings by mainstream and Indigenous minority children offers rich insight into the ways in which children imagine identity for themselves and others and, in doing so, challenge or reinforce existing constructions of what it means to be indigenous.

Part of the book series: Transgressions (TRANS, volume 107)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Theorizing the Cultural Borderlands

    • Phiona Stanley
    Pages 1-13

  3. ‘A Picture Tells More than a Thousand Words’

    • Eva Alerby
    Pages 15-25

  4. Walking in Two Worlds

    • Jill Brown
    Pages 27-39

  5. Being and Seeing Chakma

    • Raqib Chowdhury
    Pages 41-56

  6. Komi People through the Eyes of Children

    • Anna Podorova, Inna Makarova
    Pages 57-73

  7. Sámi Children’s Images of Identity

    • Gunnar Jonsson, Ida-Maria Svonni
    Pages 75-87

  8. The Past is in the Present

    • Nicola F. Johnson
    Pages 89-101

  9. I Do Not Belong Here

    • Xuhong Wang
    Pages 103-116

  10. Imagined Baduy children

    • Ahmad Bukhori-Muslim
    Pages 117-130

  11. Ainu: “Homogenous” Japan’s Indigenous People

    • Sayaka Saito
    Pages 131-147

  12. What Do Canadian Aboriginal Children in the Northwest Territories Understand about Themselves through their Drawings?

    • Megan Blight, Michelle Eady
    Pages 149-167

  13. Images of Dreams and Hopes

    • Dat Bao
    Pages 169-180

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 181-182
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About this book

"The understandings which children have of Indigenous identity provide means by which to explore the ways in which Indigenous identity is both projected and constructed in society. These understandings play a powerful part in the ways in which Indigenous peoples are positioned in the mainstream society with which they are connected. The research presented in this edited collection uses children’s drawings to illuminate and explore the images children, both mainstream and Indigenous, have of Indigenous peoples. The data generated by this process allows exploration of the ways in which Indigenous identity is understood globally, through a series of locally focussed studies connected by theme and approach. The data serves to illuminate both the space made available by mainstream groups, and aspects of modernity accommodated within the Indigenous sense of self. Our aim within this project has been to analyse and discuss the ways in which children construct identity, both their own and thatof others. Children were asked to share their thoughts through drawings which were then used as the basis for conversation with the researchers. In this way the interaction between mainstream modernity and traditional Indigenous identity is made available for discussion and the connection between children’s lived experiences of identity and the wider global discussion is both immediately enacted and located within broader international understandings of Indigenous cultures and their place in the world."

Editors and Affiliations

  • Monash University, Australia

    Jill Brown

  • Federation University, Australia

    Nicola F. Johnson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Children’s Images of Identity

  • Book Subtitle: Drawing the Self and the Other

  • Editors: Jill Brown, Nicola F. Johnson

  • Series Title: Transgressions

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-124-3

  • Publisher: Springer Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-124-3Published: 25 June 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2214-9732

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-9740

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 182

  • Topics: Education, general

  • Industry Sectors: Engineering, Pharma

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