Collaborating for Indigenous Rights: a fifty year retrospective exploring the history of black and white Australian activism, 1957-1972. The year 1957 marks the beginning of a fifteen year period in which black and white Australians collaborated for Indigenous rights. Although this work began with a concentration on civil rights, by the end of the period a new set of rights was being sought based on the unique circumstances of Indigenous Australians. This project will explore the struggle for ci ....Collaborating for Indigenous Rights: a fifty year retrospective exploring the history of black and white Australian activism, 1957-1972. The year 1957 marks the beginning of a fifteen year period in which black and white Australians collaborated for Indigenous rights. Although this work began with a concentration on civil rights, by the end of the period a new set of rights was being sought based on the unique circumstances of Indigenous Australians. This project will explore the struggle for civil rights and the more radical proposition that other rights flowed to Indigenous Australians due to their original occupancy and dispossession.The proposed end products are a fully developed exhibition brief and catalogue essay, an on-line exhibition with supporting educational resource material and scholarly articles.Read moreRead less
Food, Traditional Aboriginal Knowledge and the Expansion of the Settler Economy. This project will strengthen our understanding of Australian Indigenous-settler history by focusing on the role of food and traditional Aboriginal food knowledge. It will also represent a timely engagement with worldwide debates about the role of Indigenous knowledge in a modern world.
As well as producing scholarly outcomes including books the project will establish and maintain a data-base of this knowledge whi ....Food, Traditional Aboriginal Knowledge and the Expansion of the Settler Economy. This project will strengthen our understanding of Australian Indigenous-settler history by focusing on the role of food and traditional Aboriginal food knowledge. It will also represent a timely engagement with worldwide debates about the role of Indigenous knowledge in a modern world.
As well as producing scholarly outcomes including books the project will establish and maintain a data-base of this knowledge which will be accessible to Indigenous communities, scholars, land users and managers. A further benefit will be the repatriation of knowledge and information located in archives and other repositories to descendant Aboriginal communities in culturally sensitive, socially and historically contextualised Community Reports.Read moreRead less
Social Relations Among Urban Aborigines in Sydney's Western Suburbs.
The forces that generate the horrific health and welfare problems in Indigenous communities will be elucidated and tools will be offered to enhance the work of policy makers and improve communications between Aborigines and providers of services. My research will rely on Indigenous people to expose the normalised and internalised forms of racial inequality they experience and to offer strategies to combat them. Intellectual ....Social Relations Among Urban Aborigines in Sydney's Western Suburbs.
The forces that generate the horrific health and welfare problems in Indigenous communities will be elucidated and tools will be offered to enhance the work of policy makers and improve communications between Aborigines and providers of services. My research will rely on Indigenous people to expose the normalised and internalised forms of racial inequality they experience and to offer strategies to combat them. Intellectual outcomes will include new directions for social science's engagement with Indigenous issues, a more innovative contemporary anthropology and better informed practices in organisations. It will contribute to capacity building by enhancing the skills and experience of participants and improving self-esteem.
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The politics of Indigenous enumeration in Australia, Canada and New Zealand - a history. The recent 'History Wars' demonstrated that how we tell our national story is more than an 'academic' issue. Settler-colonial nations, whether they enjoy it or not, are bound to ponder and to debate the histories of the relationships between colonisers and colonised. By being comparative, the project will enable Australians to consider what is common and what is unique in the Australian story. By highlightin ....The politics of Indigenous enumeration in Australia, Canada and New Zealand - a history. The recent 'History Wars' demonstrated that how we tell our national story is more than an 'academic' issue. Settler-colonial nations, whether they enjoy it or not, are bound to ponder and to debate the histories of the relationships between colonisers and colonised. By being comparative, the project will enable Australians to consider what is common and what is unique in the Australian story. By highlighting social science and social policy, the project will give interested Australians a context for their recent discussions about what policy (if any) should succeed 'self-determination'. Read moreRead less
Special Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR0354900
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$30,000.00
Summary
Australian Indigenous Knowledges and Research Network (AIKRN). The development of a multi-cross discipline, collaborative Australian Indigenous Knowledges and Research Network, working in full-partnership with Indigenous communities, would assist the development of Indigenous studies in areas encompassing personal wellbeing, social, political, management, economic, cultural and physical studies and improvement of the Indigenous holistic individual and collective well-being and independence. The ....Australian Indigenous Knowledges and Research Network (AIKRN). The development of a multi-cross discipline, collaborative Australian Indigenous Knowledges and Research Network, working in full-partnership with Indigenous communities, would assist the development of Indigenous studies in areas encompassing personal wellbeing, social, political, management, economic, cultural and physical studies and improvement of the Indigenous holistic individual and collective well-being and independence. The Network will facilitate research outcomes which position, improve, empower and encourage Indigenous self-management of the research agenda. Integral to this is the ongoing development and support of Indigenous researchers as a key focus of the collective harnessing and promotion of positive research training best practice.Read moreRead less