{"title":"Martin Nakata","description":"\u003cp\u003eMartin Nakata’s works explore the intersections of Indigenous knowledge, education, and cultural critique with a sharp and thoughtful voice. His writing challenges conventional academic disciplines and invites readers to reconsider the ways in which knowledge itself is constructed and controlled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWithin the \u003cem\u003eEducation \u0026amp; Reference\u003c\/em\u003e category, Nakata’s books offer profound insights into issues of identity, power, and discipline, making them essential reading for those interested in contemporary discussions around Indigenous perspectives in education and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"disciplining-the-savages-savaging-the-disciplines-by-martin-nakata-9780855755485","title":"Disciplining the Savages Savaging the Disciplines","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMartin Nakata's book, \u003cem\u003eDisciplining the Savages: Savaging the Disciplines\u003c\/em\u003e, represents the most focused and sustained Indigenous critique of anthropological knowledge yet published. It is impressive, rigorous, and sometimes poignant: a must-read for anyone concerned with the troubled interplay of Indigenous issues and academic institutions in Australia today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book provides an alternative reading for those struggling at the contradictory and ambiguous intersections of academia and Indigenous experience. In doing so, it moves beyond the usual criticisms of the disciplines which construct the way we have come to know and understand Indigenous peoples.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNakata, a Torres Strait Islander academic, casts a critical gaze on the research conducted by the Cambridge Expedition in the late 1890s. Meticulously analysing the linguistic, physiological, psychological, and anthropological testing conducted, he offers an astute critique of the researchers' methodologies and interpretations. He uses these insights to reveal the similar workings of recent knowledge production in Torres Strait education.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn systematically deconstructing these knowledges, Nakata draws eloquently on both the Torres Strait Islander struggle and his own personal struggle to break free from imposed definitions and reminds us that such intellectual journeys are highly personal and political. Nakata argues for the recognition of the complexity of the space Indigenous people now live in — the cultural interface — and proposes an alternative theoretical standpoint to account for Indigenous experience of this space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47424045973740,"sku":"9780855755485","price":54.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780855755485.jpg?v=1774769329"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/martin-nakata.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}