ABSTRACT

Bourdieu’s concept of habitus clivé illuminates Indigenous Australians’ experiences in tertiary environments for both Aboriginal students and Aboriginal staff. Habitus formed through family, schooling and social class is also shaped by urban, regional or rural upbringing, creating a durable sense of self. Aboriginal people in Australia live in all of these places, often in marginalised circumstances. Bourdieu’s more specific concept of habitus clivé, or divided self, is less well known than habitus, but offers value in giving expression to Indigenous people’s experiences within a dominant White society. The complexity of participation and educational change is explored here through the experiences of three authors’ intersecting positionalities within the Australian academy. Developing more nuanced scholarly language reduces the imposition of perspectives that see Indigenous people as objects within western frameworks. Scholarly understanding and respect for Australia’s first peoples’ concepts and cultural practices would engage more appropriately and fairly with Aboriginal knowledge and society. Habitus clivé chronicles one version of habitus that can be changed or be reconfirmed but not easily or by fiat. Understanding the concept can be learned, however. Educational opportunity, glorified in today’s higher education, means little for Aboriginal people without long-term strategies addressing existentially and culturally split habitus.

摘要

Bourdieu 的 habitus clivé 概念阐明了土著澳大利亚人在高等教育环境中对土著学生和土著员工的体验。通过家庭、学校教育和社会阶层形成的习惯也受到城市、地区或农村教养的影响，从而形成持久的自我意识。澳大利亚的原住民居住在所有这些地方，通常处于边缘化的环境中。Bourdieu 的 habitus clivé 或分裂自我的更具体概念不如 habitus 广为人知，但在表达占主导地位的白人社会中的土著人民的经历方面提供了价值。通过三位作者在澳大利亚学术界的交叉职位的经历，本文探讨了参与和教育变革的复杂性。发展更细致的学术语言可以减少将土著人民视为西方框架内对象的强加观点。对澳大利亚原住民的概念和文化习俗的学术理解和尊重将更恰当、更公平地融入土著知识和社会。Habitus clivé 记录了一种可以更改或重新确认但不容易或无法通过命令的习惯版本。然而，理解这个概念是可以学习的。在当今的高等教育中得到美化的教育机会，如果没有解决存在和文化分裂习惯的长期战略，对土著人民来说意义不大。对澳大利亚原住民的概念和文化习俗的学术理解和尊重将更恰当、更公平地融入土著知识和社会。Habitus clivé 记录了一种可以更改或重新确认但不容易或无法通过命令的习惯版本。然而，理解这个概念是可以学习的。在当今的高等教育中得到美化的教育机会，如果没有解决存在和文化分裂习惯的长期战略，对土著人民来说意义不大。对澳大利亚原住民的概念和文化习俗的学术理解和尊重将更恰当、更公平地融入土著知识和社会。Habitus clivé 记录了一种可以更改或重新确认但不容易或无法通过命令的习惯版本。然而，理解这个概念是可以学习的。在当今的高等教育中得到美化的教育机会，如果没有解决存在和文化分裂习惯的长期战略，对土著人民来说意义不大。