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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Community health planning: rural responses to change
- Authors: Kilpatrick, Sue, Auckland, Stuart, Woodroffe, Jessica
- Publisher: Routledge
- Published: 2019
The Routledge Companion to Rural Planning provides a critical account and state of the art review of rural planning in the early years of the twenty-first century. Looking across different…
Agricultural development in northern Australia
- Authors: Noble, Keith, Dennis, Tania, Larkins, Sarah
- Publisher: Springer Singapore
- Published: 2019
This chapter provides a history of agricultural development in Northern Australia, which includes many past grand plans for northern development, before progressing through a consideration of the historic and contemporary…
Why and how to consider the resilience of individuals?
- Authors: Noble, Keith, Dennis, Tania, Larkins, Sarah
- Publisher: Springer Singapore
- Published: 2019
Any property that conveys resilience to a specific farm at a specific point in time might well be irrelevant at a later point in time when both the farm and…
The resilience strategies of individuals
- Authors: Noble, Keith, Dennis, Tania, Larkins, Sarah
- Publisher: Springer Singapore
- Published: 2019
In any human endeavour, there are individuals who stand out. Whether through financial success, personality, remarkable actions or even notoriety, these are names which come up regularly in conversation. Agriculture…
Understanding the context: The case of Central Australian Aboriginal health
- Author: Tsey, Komla
- Publisher: Springer International Publishing
- Published: 2019
Research does not occur in a vacuum. It is important to develop an intellectual understanding of the social context of your research. Social researchers must listen to opinion leaders and…
Disasters, market changes and ‘The Big Smoke’: Understanding the decline of remote tourism in Katherine, Northern Territory Australia
- Authors: Carson, Dean B., Carson, Doris A.
- Publisher: Springer International Publishing
- Published: 2019
This chapter examines the decline of tourism in Katherine, one of the Northern Territory’s iconic remote destinations. While the decline coincided with severe floods damaging much of the town and…