P. Srinivasan 
Early Childhood in Postcolonial Australia 
Children’s Contested Identities

Early Childhood in Postcolonial Australia is a critical narration of how Australian children use cultural markers such as, skin color, diet and religious practices to build their identity categories of ‘self’ and ‘other.’

Table of Content

Introduction: Who Am I? Who Is My Ganga? 1. My Ganga: Our Beginnings, Our Context, Our Stories 2. My Ganga ‘Speaks’: othering, Othering, øthering Australian/not Australian 3. My Ganga ‘Speaks’: Complex(ion) of Australian/not Australian 4. My Ganga ‘Speaks’: Forbidden Fs of Australian/not Australian 5. My Ganga ‘Speaks’: Tongue Ties of Australian/not Australian 6. My Ganga ‘Speaks’: Terra Strikes of Australian/not Australian 7. Contesting Australian with Children: In othered/Othered/øthered Voices Epilogue: (Re)contesting Identities with øther and Other Australians

About the author

Prasanna Srinivasan is Research Fellow at the Youth Research Centre of the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne, Australia.