Hi Gary,
>I am hoping to be able to persuade some of my graduate students to make the
>trip to Bradford. I think that two of them are currently doing interesting
>work around the question of Aboriginality and Emancipation. One of the
>candidates is white while the other is an Aborigine.
I'm helping organise the conference program. Could you let me have the
titles of these papers please including yours if you're giving one? I've
got Hockey's.
Thanks,
Mervyn
Gary MacLennan <g.maclennan@xxxxxxxxxx> writes
>I am hoping to be able to persuade some of my graduate students to make the
>trip to Bradford. I think that two of them are currently doing interesting
>work around the question of Aboriginality and Emancipation. One of the
>candidates is white while the other is an Aborigine.
>
>Central to both theses is the matter of spirituality. How though can this
>be understood? For one of the candidates his spirituality comes I think
>out of his Christianity. In my own case how do I relate to this? Well I
>have been a militant atheist who has grown to detest the aggressive
>secularism, which so dominates our epoch and I urged him to come out as a
>Christian in his thesis writing. People have a right to be religious. There
>I said it!
>
>However for Aborigines the Christian Church represents something else -
>something not very good either. So I think for this candidate the task is
>to find a way of formulating the spiritual turn which disassociates it from
>the organised religions through an uncompromising commitment to the
>eudaionistic society. The kingdom of god must be located here on earth.
>
>What of the other candidate? I have mentioned him in an earlier post. His
>is a struggle from within the Aboriginal community. He is striving to work
>with progressive sectors of the state bureaucracy to bring about a rebirth
>in Aboriginal education. For him the key is the construction of an
>Aboriginal identity that is empowering. Much to think about here. Not the
>least this which I snipped from Mervyn's post
>
> >"the identity of identity and non-identity"
> >(Hegel) versus "the non-identity of identity and non-identity" (Adorno).
>
>regards
>
>Gary
>
>
>
>
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