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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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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,…
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…
“So Did You Find Any Culture Up Here Mate?”: Young Men, “Deficit” and Change
- Author: Adgemis, Philip
- Publisher: Springer International Publishing
- Published: 2020
This chapter addresses the reflexive dimensions of research with young Indigenous men in northern Australia. Adgemis charts his own realizations regarding Indigenous Australian stereotypes, violent realities of colonization and the…
A coalition of hope! A regional governance approach to Indigenous Australian cultural wellbeing
- Author: Poelina, Anne
- Publisher: Springer Singapore
- Published: 2020
The Rainbow Snake is a universal Indigenous Australian living creature responsible for the creation and protection of waterways. Countless generations of traditional owners have cared for the sacred ancestral being;…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…