Australia: ‘You Don't Have To Be Black Skinned To Be Black’ - Indigenous Young People's Bodily Practices

Australia: ‘You Don't Have To Be Black Skinned To Be Black’ - Indigenous Young People's Bodily Practices   Alison Nelson, 2012   In contemporary Western societies, disciplinary and normalising technologies function to create a sense of moral obligation within each individual to monitor and regulate the body in terms of health, including diet and exercise. The settler/Aboriginal experience in Australia provides an example of the ways in which biopolitics has operated at a population...

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