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«Mobs» and «Wogs»: reflections on researching life stories and family histories
journal contribution
posted on 2019-01-01, 00:00 authored by Maria Pallotta-ChiarolliMaria Pallotta-ChiarolliThis article introduces a larger research project exploring the life stories and family histories of «Wogarigines», a term often used by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) people with Southern European (SE: Greek, Italian, Maltese, Portuguese and Spanish) migrant heritages (Pallotta-Chiarolli, in contract). For many, often younger ATSI peoples, Wogarigine is a cool term of resistance and reclamation. A similar term is «Indigiwogs». But for many ATSI peoples, those terms are offensive. So immediately, a terrain of contested terms demands reflection on who constructs, who claims, who defines, who imposes, who resists labels; and how does decolonising research navigate this «neo-colonial
assemblage» (Pallotta-Chiarolli, in press, 2019).
assemblage» (Pallotta-Chiarolli, in press, 2019).