Decolonising Gender

Stories by, About and with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women

Bibliographic Data

ID2098951
AuthorsSandra Rennie (The University of Queensland, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume47
Issue2
Pages83-91
Publication date2017-06-15
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Australian Journal of Indigenous Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1326-0111 • E-ISSN: 2049-7784
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/jie.2017.8
OpenAlexW2626362505
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited5

What is my story? Like you, I have many', wrote feminist academic Sara Ahmed (Ahmed, 2010, p. 1). She asks, what is yours, what is mine? and begins her story at a table. 'Around the table a family gathers', she says, 'Always we are seated in the same place. . .as if we are trying to secure more than our place' (Ahmed, 2010, p. 1). In this paper, I draw upon Ahmed's work on willfulness and diversity work in higher education to explore the gendered stories of pathways through university shared with me by Indigenous Australian students. In the stories told in this paper, the table becomes the university space and the family becomes the students. The stories become more than securing place; they are stories which talk of willful resilience, resistance and persistence within that place called higher education. Grounded in my doctoral work with seven female Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, this paper specifically focuses on the gendered nature of such willfulness to consider the ways in which Indigenous Australian students negotiate pathways and success through university within/against Western colonial and patriarchal institutions

Colonialism · Indigenous · Media studies · Negotiation · Political science · Publishing · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Social and Economic Development in India · Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nepal

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