Globalizing Indigeneity: Indigenous Cultural Festivals and Wellbeing in Australia and the Asia-Pacific

澳大利亚（和其他地方）的土著社区处于极端不利的地位。北澳大利亚和该地区的许多其他地方都面临着一个人口定时炸弹，即疏远、自我毁灭和文化迷失的年轻人。这体现在韦德耶、棕榈岛和莫尔兹比港等地的暴力事件中。文化节是少数几个一贯积极的空间之一，使土著社区能够在代际间对自己提出更具建设性的看法，并作为他们作为独特文化在更广泛的国家社会中争取尊重的一部分。文化节也提供了一个难得的空间，让人们可以在土著地区协商新的跨文化住宿。

Indigenous communities in Australia (and elsewhere) suffer from extreme disadvantage. Northern Australia and many other places in the region, face a demographic time-bomb of alienated, self-destructive and culturally-disoriented youth. This manifests as violence in places like Wadeye, Palm Island and Port Moresby. Cultural festivals are one of the few consistently positive spaces for indigenous communities to assert a more constructive view of themselves both intergenerationally, and as part of their struggle for respect as distinct cultures in the broader national community. Cultural festivals also provide a rare space for novel intercultural accommodations to be negotiated on indigenous terrain.