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Settler-colonial governmentality: The carceral webs woven by law and politics
- Author: Anthony, Thalia
- Publisher: Springer Singapore
- Published: 2020
This chapter is concerned with the relationality of law and politics in historical and contemporary expressions of colonial sovereignty in the Northern Territory of Australia and how this weaves webs…
A right way, wrong way and better way for energy engineers to work with Aboriginal communities
- Authors: Duff, Andrea, Hanchant-Nichols, Deanne, Bown, Brad, Gamage, Sithara H. P. W., Nixon, Bronte, Nisi, Petra, Boase, Jayne, Smith, Elizabeth
- Publisher: Springer International Publishing
- Published: 2020
Aboriginal Australians have an intrinsic relationship to Country, kinship and community. The processes related to colonisation have decimated traditional lifestyles, ecology and even families. The challenge for energy engineers lies…
Writing as kin: Producing ethical histories through collaboration in unexpected places. Researching F.W. Albrecht, assimilation policy and Lutheran experiments in Aboriginal education
- Authors: Ellinghaus, Katherine, Judd, Barry
- Publisher: Springer Singapore
- Published: 2020
This chapter explores the possibilities of relationality through collaboration between an Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholar. It describes an attempt to move beyond the problematic ways in which Indigenous history has…
Talking and writing to develop mathematical meanings in a remote Indigenous context
- Authors: Harper, Helen, Parkin, Bronwyn
- Publisher: Springer Singapore
- Published: 2019
In this chapter we explore how teacher and student talk, as well as written text, helped to build meaning in a series of mathematics lessons in a remote Indigenous school.…
Embedding evidence-based practice into a remote Indigenous early learning and parenting program: A systematic approach
- Authors: Cooke, Louise, Piers-Blundell, Averill
- Publisher: Springer Singapore
- Published: 2019
Engaging and empowering Indigenous families and their young children in quality early learning experiences through increasing parent knowledge and skill is critical to bridging the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous…
Forming a humanitarian brand: Childhood and affect in Central Australia
- Author: Anderson, Drew
- Publisher: Springer International Publishing
- Published: 2019
This chapter draws upon ethnographic research with an international NGO working with Indigenous communities in the central desert of Australia. International NGOs have often relied upon the commodification of children…
Economic hybridity in remote Indigenous Australia as development alterity
- Author: Curchin, Katherine
- Publisher: CRC Press
- Published: 2019
(Abstract for book) Postdevelopment in Practice critically engages with recent trends in postdevelopment and critical development studies that have destabilised the concept of development, challenging its assumptions and exposing areas…
Resilience discourse and adaption strategies
- Authors: Noble, Keith, Dennis, Tania, Larkins, Sarah
- Publisher: Springer Singapore
- Published: 2019
We are paying attention to the resilience agenda now because it has become policy, but policy must be measured. Resilience has been used in many fields of science over the…
The influence and importance of the built environment
- Authors: Noble, Keith, Dennis, Tania, Larkins, Sarah
- Publisher: Springer Singapore
- Published: 2019
When it’s hot, we find a shady tree to sit under; when it’s cold, we find a windbreak and build a fire; and if there’s danger, we find a safe…
Emergent trends in Indigenous labour mobility: Flying to work in the nation’s quarry
- Authors: McKenzie, Fiona Haslam, Prout Quicke, Sarah
- Publisher: ANU Press
- Published: 2019
This chapter seeks to develop the conceptual terrain of these kinds of contemporary Indigenous labour mobilities in Australia by foregrounding the experiences and outcomes of one case study group of…
Breaking the Cycle: What Influences Do Families Have on Lower Primary School Students’ Attendance in Remote Communities?
- Author: Ellis, Casey
- Publisher: Springer Singapore
- Published: 2019
Although parents and families have a significant influence on their child’s school attendance, teachers’ adoption of more culturally appropriate methods of engagement with the community is necessary. I do think…
Digital repertoires in Australia’s remote Aboriginal communities
- Author: Rennie, Ellie
- Publisher: Routledge
- Published: 2019
A high proportion of Aboriginal Australians residing in remote communities are mobile-only internet users. This chapter examines how infrastructures and social norms are informing digital choices in these communities, and…
A case study of controversy: The Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy
- Author: McCollow, John
- Publisher: Springer Singapore
- Published: 2019
The Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy (CYAAA) is a partnership between the Queensland Department of Education and Training (DET) and Good to Great Schools Australia (GGSA). The CYAAA has operated…
Preparing pre-service teachers to teach literacy in remote spaces
- Authors: Rennie, Jennifer, Anderson, Peter J.
- Publisher: Springer Singapore
- Published: 2019
Remote Indigenous communities are often seen as challenging places in which to teach for a range of reasons. Student attendance is erratic, and teachers can feel that their work is…
A long unfinished struggle: Literacy and Indigenous cultural and language rights
- Authors: Oldfield, Janine, Lo Bianco, Joseph
- Publisher: Springer Singapore
- Published: 2019
What counts as bilingual education for Australian Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory (NT) has varied significantly depending on geographical location and temporal context, Indigenous community involvement and the prevailing…
Remedying the misappropriation of genetic resources
- Author: Blakeney, Michael
- Publisher: Springer Singapore
- Published: 2019
In the absence of an effective international legal regime to regulate biopiracy, a second-best solution is for source countries to regulate access to their genetic resources. Among the pioneering legislation…
Framing northern Australian agriculture’s future
- Authors: Noble, Keith, Dennis, Tania, Larkins, Sarah
- Publisher: Springer Singapore
- Published: 2019
This chapter frames Northern Australia’s possible agricultural future and considers the specific relevance of planet and people matters to the past, present and future of individuals involved in Northern Australian…
Bringing it together: The thread of fairness
- Authors: Noble, Keith, Dennis, Tania, Larkins, Sarah
- Publisher: Springer Singapore
- Published: 2019
Disasters happen, and it is not only natural events that cause them; they can also be the product of social, political and economic environments. However, when talking about human-induced (and…
A fair go, a fair future
- Authors: Noble, Keith, Dennis, Tania, Larkins, Sarah
- Publisher: Springer Singapore
- Published: 2019
That Northern Australia will not develop in the same historical manner as the more populated south is a reasonable assumption – it is different geographically, climatically and demographically, and further development…
Basic income and cultural participation for remote-living Indigenous Australians
- Authors: Altman, Jon, Markham, Francis
- Publisher: Springer International Publishing
- Published: 2019
In much of remote Australia where a sizable minority of Indigenous people live, labour markets are able to employ only a small fraction of the working-age Indigenous population, a legacy…