Australia: Young Nunga Males At Play And Playing Up: The Look And The Talk

Australia: Young Nunga Males At Play And Playing Up: The Look And The Talk Faye Rosas Blancha, 2011   This paper explores how Foucault's concept of the panopticon, power and knowledge impacts on the identity of young Nunga males in a secondary educational institution. I argue that the regulation of the Nunga body in schools is embedded in the discursive formations of knowledge about Indigenous people and the workings of power that are tied up in discipline, surveillance and management of...

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