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The impact of advances and challenges of bush internet cnnectivity for women in agriculture in Queensland, Australia
- Author: Hay, Rachel
- Publisher: Springer International Publishing
- Published: 2021
Adoption of agricultural technology such as remote cameras, remote weather stations, bore cameras, and other livestock management systems in the Queensland, Australian beef industry is inconsistent. Marketing of these technologies…
Housing waste in remote Indigenous Australia
- Authors: Grealy, Liam, Lea, Tess
- Publisher: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group
- Published: 2021
(Book abstract) This book investigates the complex and unpredictable temporalities of waste. Reflecting on waste in the context of sustainability, materiality, social practices, subjectivity, and environmental challenges, the book covers…
Language contact and change through child first language acquisition
- Authors: O'Shannessy, Carmel, Davidson, Lucinda
- Published: 2020
Processes in child first language acquisition can be a locus of contact-induced language change, yet they have received little attention in the language contact literature. This chapter outlines theories and…
Encounters with Yanyuwa rock art: Reflexivity, multivocality, and the “Archaeological Record” in northern Australia’s southwest Gulf Country
- Author: Brady, Liam M.
- Publisher: Springer International Publishing
- Published: 2020
This chapter explores what a reflexive encounter in an Indigenous archaeology context looks and feels like, and what its implications might be for the archaeologist and how they construct the…
Resilience in the Alice Springs Town Camps
- Authors: Campbell, Shirleen, Corbo, Maree, Egan, Ronnie
- Publisher: Routledge
- Published: 2020
This chapter draws on the experience of the Tangentyere Women’s Family Safety Group in Alice Springs, Australia, as an example of both individual and community resilience. The history, outcomes and…
Driving change across boundaries: Eliminating crusted scabies in Northern Territory, Australia
- Authors: Dickinson, Helen, Gardner, Karen, Dowden, Michelle, van der Linden, Naomi
- Publisher: Springer International Publishing
- Published: 2020
Collaboration is a key component of high-quality health systems and is particularly important when facing so-called wicked issues. This chapter examines cross-sector collaboration as a function of the notion of…
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…
Developing and maintaining interprofessional teams in rural and remote settings
- Authors: Smith, Tony, Munro, Simon, Moran, Monica
- Publisher: Springer International Publishing
- Published: 2020
Regional, rural and remote AustraliaAustralia is diverse, not only in terms of the landscape, but also in ways that influence cultural, spiritual and operational aspects of health service delivery. Dotted…
History in the now: Asserting Indigenous difference in “Top End” higher education using culturally responsive pedagogy
- Authors: Willsher, Michele, Oldfield, Janine
- Publisher: Springer Singapore
- Published: 2020
Recent changes to curriculum and course design by schools and universities signal their agreement that the teaching of intercultural communication skills and cultural competencies is vital for a sustainable world…
Peer work in rural and remote communities and mental health services
- Authors: Jackson, Fay, Heffernan, Tim, Orr, Mark, Young, Robert Butch, Puckett, Cherie, Daly, Susan
- Publisher: Springer Singapore
- Published: 2020
Peer Workers are the most underutilised, valuable resource available to rural and remote mental health services and communities. Evidence has confirmed the efficacy of peer work, yet their historically slow…
Gudirr Gudirr—culturally situated neo-expressionism
- Author: Swain, Rachael
- Publisher: Springer International Publishing
- Published: 2020
This chapter situates choreographic practice of listening to Country in the lands of the Yawuru in Broome, north of Western Australia. In this location the legacy of entangled Indigenous Asian histories have…
The dramaturgies of listening to Country
- Author: Swain, Rachael
- Publisher: Springer International Publishing
- Published: 2020
This chapter unpacks the concept of ‘listening to Country’ engaged to discuss making, performing and attending intercultural dance on Indigenous land. After introducing Marrugeku, a dance theatre company whose practice forms the…
Testing the effects of dietary seafood consumption on depressive symptoms
- Authors: Berger, Maximus, Amminger, G. Paul, McDermott, Robyn, Guest, Paul C., Sarnyai, Zoltán
- Publisher: Springer US
- Published: 2020
This chapter presents a protocol for assessing the effects dietary seafood consumption on depressive symptoms. We designed a cross-sectional study of 206 participants recruited in two Torres Strait Island communities.…
Introduction: The scene for a reflexive practice
- Authors: Kearney, Amanda, Bradley, John
- Publisher: Springer International Publishing
- Published: 2020
In this introductory chapter, we establish this book as a story of relationships, intersecting lives and experiences, as they have taken place in a remote township in northern Australia, between…
The theory/practice of disaster justice: Learning from Indigenous peoples’ fire management
- Authors: Weir, Jessica K., Sutton, Stephen, Catt, Gareth
- Publisher: Springer Singapore
- Published: 2020
Globally, Indigenous peoples have fire management practices which are not necessarily supported by the centralised land management and natural hazard institutions of nation states. This is changing in Australia with…
Chapter 8 Phenomenological learning in the Northern Territory
- Authors: Welsh, Scott, Nosrat, Mia
- Publisher: Brill | Sense
- Published: 2020
The chapter raises questions around notions of social and educational inclusion for First Peoples’ communities in the remote regions of the Northern Territory. Critically analyzing the terms of reference for…
Insider research: Articulating the voices of women schooling their children in remote Queensland, Australia
- Author: McInnerney, Marlyn
- Publisher: Springer International Publishing
- Published: 2020
Families in remote Queensland, Australia, face a range of challenges, including the education of their children. The question of education strategies was included in the semi-structured interviews conducted with the…
Symptom as history, culture as healing: Incarcerated Aboriginal women’s journeys through historic trauma and recovery processes
- Author: Atkinson, Judy
- Publisher: Springer International Publishing
- Published: 2020
This chapter describes and reflects on an intensive four-week pre-release educaring program run with Aboriginal women in Alice Springs Correctional Centre Northern Territory, Australia. The behaviours, or symptoms, that contributed…
Standardized testing and school achievement: The case of Indigenous-language speaking students in remote Australia
- Authors: Freeman, Leonard, A, Wigglesworth, G
- Published: 2020
Standardized testing and school achievement: The case of Indigenous-language speaking students in remote Australia
Mental health and mining: Research challenges and influences
- Authors: James, Carole L., Rich, Jane Louise, Kelly, Brian
- Publisher: Springer Singapore
- Published: 2020
In Australia and internationally, rural-based industries are an important component of the national fabric, with meaningful contributions to socio-cultural, environmental and economic factors. Resources-based industries such as mining, gas, petroleum,…