ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author suggests that an ethical scholarly engagement with creative textual and artistic representation provides an entry point to begin to imagine, or indeed re-imagine, Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal young people as otherwise, as more than. Indigenous young people have come to be understood as a problem within policy, research and disciplinary practice. The award-winning Neomad is a collaborative effort created by young people from Roebourne and non-Indigenous illustrator and interactive designer Stu Campbell. Australian Indigenous university students are predominantly understood according to (neo)liberal notions of success and achievement in response to discourses of disadvantage and underrepresentation. Indigenous young people completing post-secondary study thus inhabit a curious in-between space within theory, research, education practice and policy. In articulating the complexity of their presence at the university through a collective publication that is disseminated freely around the university campus, these young people actively haunt and unsettle the standardising and historically universalising agenda of higher education and research.
