Deger, Jennifer (2011) Book review of "Global Indigenous Media: cultures, poetics and politics" by P. Wilson and M. Stewart (eds). Durham, NC, USA, Duke University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0822343080. Australian Journal of Anthropology, 22 (1). pp. 142-143.

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Abstract

[Extract] Global Indigenous Media: Cultures, Poetics and Politics marks a particular moment in interdisciplinary scholarship. The publication of this book clearly announces that the study of indigenous media—once a marginal (even radical) pursuit within anthropology—has hit the academic mainstream.

I use the term 'mainstream' here deliberately. At least in the Australian context, this is a category against which many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander media practitioners discursively position their projects, claiming commonality and shared struggle often in the face of significant cultural and historical differences. Yet what is most welcome about this book is that it critically examines 'indigenous media' (and 'indigeneity') as a category of social and political endeavour by marginalised groups that is neither self-evident, nor necessarily radically distinct from broader national and transnational dynamics and agendas.

Item ID:	31971
Item Type:	Article (Book Review)
ISSN:	1757-6547
Date Deposited:	14 Aug 2014 06:06
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