Re-storying Place, Connection and Belonging: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people making space and creating futures in Narrm Dr Emily Munro-Harrison
Constructs of Indigeneity have been the locus of settler colonial interest and control since colonisation in Australia. Through historical policies of displacement, and contemporary normative processes that question the authenticity and belonging of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, urban places continue to be sites of erasure and non-belonging. However, cities will always be Aboriginal land, and places of cultural resurgence, renewal and regeneration. Internationally, a growing body of literature investigates experiences of First Nations young people in urban places, but in Australia this is lacking.
This thesis explores how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young urban people in Narrm (Melbourne) practise and connect to their Indigeneity, as they come into relation with place, community, and their engagement with institutional regimes.
Supervisors
- Professor Richard Chenhall
- Professor Catherine Vaughan
- Professor Shaun Ewen