Indigenous bodies: Ordinary lives

Hokowhitu, Brendan

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Hokowhitu, B. (2016). Indigenous bodies: Ordinary lives. In D. B. Robinson & L. Randall (Eds.), Social Justice in Physical Education Critical Reflections and Pedagogies for Change (pp. 164–182). Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press.

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Abstract

Ambivalence is the overwhelming feeling that haunts my relationship with physicality. Not only my body, but the bodies of an imagined multitude of Indigenous peoples dissected and made whole again via the violent synthesis of the colonial project. Like my own ambivalence (and by “ambivalence” I refer to simultaneous abhorrence and desire), the relationship between Indigenous peoples and physicality faces the anxiety of representation felt within Indigenous studies in general.

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2016

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Canadian Scholars' Press

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Māori and Indigenous Studies Papers [142]