White Fragility: Why it’s so hard for white people to talk about racism
White Fragility: Why is it so hard for white people to talk about racism? written by Dr Robin DiAngelo, explores the racialized victimhood white people experience when their assumptions about race are challenged and how this serves to maintain racial inequality. Dr Robin DiAngelo explores how the defensive moves and counterproductive reactions which are characterised as white fragility prevents meaningful cross-racial dialogue and protects racial inequality.
Traditional Knowledge and Renewable Resource Management in Northern Regions
The area study published by the University of Alberta Press, explores the sometimes problematic relationship between traditional and scientific wildlife management knowledge and practices.
TAKE 2: Housing Design in Indigenous Australia
Take 2 provides guidance and evaluation regarding the design of housing for First Nations Peoples in Australia. , Take 2 is an edited book that comprises a series of essays providing evaluation and guidance regarding the design of housing for First Nations Peoples in Australia. , Take 2 provides guidance and evaluation regarding the design of housing for First Nations Peoples in Australia. Take 2 is an edited book that comprises a series of essays providing evaluation and guidance regarding the design of housing for First Nations Peoples in Australia.
Resilience: a Lived Experience
The thesis, Resilience: a Lived Experience, written by Keith Andrew Noble explores agriculture in contemporary Australia with focus on Northern Australia. The thesis acknowledges the importance of seeking out knowledge from farmers with experience and explores how the Situational Awareness, the Ability to Plan, the Ability to Adapt, Social Connectedness and perception of Fairness through a Grounded Theory Approach contributes a new understanding of resilience.
Remote Possibilities: The Aboriginal Domain and the Administrative Imagination
Raising Understanding of Indigenous Australian Culture through Creative Production in Interior Architecture
The Interior Design focused paper, intends to demonstrate a way of applying cross-cultural design processes to the built environment within a tertiary educational context, exploring current processes and the broader impact of these initiatives.
Public attitudes towards Indigeneity in Canadian prairie urbanism: Indigeneity in prairie urbanism
Place theory and place maintenance in Indigenous Australia
This paper applies a cross-cultural theory of ‘place’ to Australian Indigenous groups, both in terms of their classical and post-colonial places and cultural landscapes. It explores how the ability of Indigenous people to access, protect, maintain and manage their places and landscapes, has been compromised by Cultural Heritage, Native Title and Planning legislations.
Mobility of Aboriginal People in Rural and Remote Australia
This research project quantifies and contextualises Aboriginal mobility using case study findings to develop a better understanding of Aboriginal perspectives, experiences of, and aspirations for mobility. The research aims to understand both the depth of attachment of Aboriginal people to their settlement places and the impact of any such changes on their mobility and service needs.
‘LIVIN’ THE DJ WAY’: Aboriginal housing and health in Dajarra
The thesis Livin’ The DJ Way: Aboriginal housing and health in Dajarra investigates how
Aboriginal housing could be more culturally responsive. The research primarily aimed to investigate the relationships between the housing and health experiences of Aboriginal people in the western Queensland town of Dajarra. By tracing the history of government housing policy the study identified how housing has affected the health of Aboriginal people in Dajarra and explored the differences and similarities between Aboriginal and Western worldviews. The research further identified health stressors experienced by the Dajarra people in their houses, day-to-day lives and environment, and documented examples of how they adapted their living practices inside and outside the houses.