Untangling ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage’: Representations of Indigenous Politics in Greek Diaspora Press
摘要
In Australia, diaspora media coverage on Indigenous political matters have been largely underexplored in migration studies. Although non-Anglo ethnic communities represent a large proportion of the non-Indigenous populace, migration studies and Indigenous studies have typically analysed media representations of migrant and Indigenous communities in isolation. Focusing on the narrativisations of a group routinely rendered as a multicultural success story, this chapter explores Greek Australian representations of Indigenous peoples and politics in the Greek diaspora press. Drawing on a selection of digital newspaper articles from Greek diaspora media outlet Neos Kosmos, it examines how a number of Greek Australian social commentators portray the Greek diaspora in relation to political struggles that are pertinent to First Nations. Identifying an assortment of historical narratives that are selectively mobilised in the present, this chapter demonstrates how Greek Australians strategically operationalise their heritages to position themselves in dialogue with both Indigenous and settler colonial histories.