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The invisible cohort: Remote students’ engagement and success in higher education
- Authors: Pollard, Louise, Skene, Judy, Venville, Grady
- Publisher: Springer Singapore
- Published: 2021
This chapter applies a remote lens to the experience of rural students in higher education. Students from remote locations are usually subsumed within the regional students’ cohort for policy and…
Indigenous children’s ‘ways of knowing’: Exploring literacy learning for Indigenous preschool children in remote communities in Australia
- Authors: Spencer, Alexis, Rouse, Elizabeth
- Publisher: Springer International Publishing
- Published: 2021
Indigenous Australian children are more likely to score below the national literacy and numeracy benchmarks and less likely to access quality early childhood education and care than non-Indigenous Australian children.…
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…
Engaging Indigenous peoples in technology supported human service offerings
- Authors: Wilson-Evered, Elisabeth, Zeleznikow, John
- Publisher: Springer International Publishing
- Published: 2021
Loss of historical artefacts arising from colonisation and past social policy continue to cause disadvantage and distress for indigenous peoples all over the world and particularly so in Australia. Social…
Traversing the online landscape: A remote Indigenous community perspective
- Authors: Kariippanon, Kishan, Senior, Kate
- Publisher: Springer Singapore
- Published: 2021
This chapter attempts to tackle a sweeping assumption that globalisation and technology has created an equal playing field and homogenised users of the Internet and social media. Health services and…
Perceptions about climate change impacts and adaptation - case studies from Indigenous communities in northern and central Australia
- Authors: Zander, Kerstin K., Maru, Yiheyis T., Race, Digby, Mathew, Supriya, Rainbird, John
- Publisher: ANU Press
- Published: 2021
The impact of climate change is one of the most significant environmental challenges facing humans. Australia is likely to face temperature increases in the range 0.6–1.5°C by 2030 and 2.2–5°C…
Unique challenges in developing capacity in rural and remote Australia: Arts utility in growing rural and remote places
- Author: Anwar-McHenry, Julia
- Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
- Published: 2021
In this book, the authors present current research in the study of capacity development opportunities and challenges and capacity building in education, health and capital. Topics discussed include capacity building…
Digital coercive control and spatiality: Rural, regional, and remote women’s experience
- Authors: Harris, Bridget, Woodlock, Delanie
- Publisher: Emerald
- Published: 2021
Technology increasingly features in intimate relationships and is used by domestic violence perpetrators to enact harm. In this chapter we propose a theoretical and practical framework for technology-facilitated harms in…
Ngintaka Songline tracks in the museum
- Author: James, Diana
- Publisher: Routledge
- Published: 2021
In March 2014, a large group of Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara traditional owners gathered outside the South Australian Museum in Adelaide to protest the proposed closure of the Ngintaka Exhibition. Bad press…
Opportunities and barriers for degrowth in remote tourism destinations: overcoming regional inequalities?
- Authors: Carson, Dean, Carson, Doris
- Publisher: Routledge
- Published: 2021
The sustainability of tourism is increasingly under question given the challenges of overtourism, COVID-19 and the contribution of tourism to climate and environmental change. Degrowth and Tourism provides an original…
Night Patrols: Mobilising collective efficacy in Indigenous communities
- Authors: Scott, John, Sims, Margaret, Cooper, Trudi, Barclay, Elaine
- Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
- Published: 2021
On one level, motor vehicles might represent the possibility of unfettered freedom, escape (from government authority) and autonomy through providing work and leisure opportunities. On another level, in remote places,…
Pulse and pause: Researching the economic future of northern and remote Australia
- Author: Gerritsen, Rolf
- Publisher: ANU Press
- Published: 2021
With the current federal government interest in northern development (Australian Government, 2014), the opportunity supposedly exists both to position remote and Northern Australia for a prosperous and sustainable future and…
Other views of northern Australian aspirations: Pre-notions, ideologies and remoteness
- Authors: Lovell, Judith, Zoellner, Don
- Publisher: ANU Press
- Published: 2021
This chapter explores ideology and remoteness through the configuration of markets and non-markets that operate in a sparsely settled region in Northern Australia. As non-Indigenous researchers analysing data from Aboriginal…
Can boarding be better? Ethical dilemmas for policy-makers, education providers and evidence-makers
- Authors: Guenther, John, Osborne, Sam
- Publisher: Springer Singapore
- Published: 2021
Boarding schools have played an important role for much of Australia’s colonised history. But in recent years attention has shifted to the role of boarding schools particularly for rural and…
Bush medicine knowledge and use among young Kriol speakers in Ngukurr
- Author: Dickson, Greg
- Publisher: ANU Press
- Published: 2021
In 2013, in a Ngukurr backyard, I was preparing to interview a young mother about her knowledge and use of bush medicine. It was a familiar remote community scene—outdoor social…
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…
Growing up fast in two remote Aboriginal communities
- Author: McMullen, Sue
- Publisher: ANU Press
- Published: 2021
In this chapter, I focus on how young Aboriginal women find sexual partners, often with a view to marriage and child-bearing, in two communities. The first is a remote Aboriginal…
Aboriginal agency, knowledge, and voice: Centring Kulintja southern methodologies
- Author: Osborne, Samuel
- Publisher: Routledge
- Published: 2021
Indigenous scholars continue to argue for decolonial approaches to research in Indigenous communities. This work involves challenging accepted institutionally generated ‘truths’ about Indigenous experiences and realities – often framed in…
‘They don’t dance corroboree any more’: Youth relations to authority, leadership and civic responsibility in a remote Aboriginal community
- Authors: Senior, Kate, Chenhall, Richard, Daniels, Daphne
- Publisher: ANU Press
- Published: 2021
Introduction: This study of young people’s leadership aspirations begins with a corroboree, which was part of the initiation ceremony for three young boys. This was the final corroboree before the…
The state’s selective absence: Extractive capitalism, mining juniors and Indigenous interests in the Northern Territory
- Author: Holcombe, Sarah
- Publisher: ANU Press
- Published: 2021
This chapter will explore the case of one such company seeking to operate in the Northern Territory (NT) of Australia, which, for ethical reasons I will refer to as ‘Top…