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Saville, Deborah M. "Language and language disabilities : aboriginal and non-aboriginal perspectives." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0002/MQ44273.pdf.
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Cirino, Gina. "American Misconceptions about Australian Aboriginal Art." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1435275397.
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Bissler, Margaret Helen. "Broadcasting Live from Unceded Coast Salish Territory: Aboriginal Community Radio, Unsettling Vancouver." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397834042.
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Tuharsky, Juanita F. L. "Around the sacred circle, the development of self-concept and cultural identity by four Aboriginal students taking Native Studies 20." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0015/MQ54753.pdf.
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Tuharsky, Juanita. "Around the sacred circle the development of self-concept and cultural identity by four Aboriginal students taking Native Studies 20." Ottawa : National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD%5F0015/MQ54753.pdf.
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Ford, Linda Mae, and linda ford@deakin edu au. "Narratives and Landscapes: Their Capacity to Serve Indigenous Knowledge Interests." Deakin University. School of Education, 2005. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20070614.105953.
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The thesis is a culmination of my research which drew on tyangi wedi tjan Rak Mak Mak Marranunggu and Marrithiel knowledge systems. These awa mirr spiritual knowledge systems have guided our Pilu for millennium and have powerful spiritual affiliation to the land and our continued presences. The understandings of the spiritual connectedness and our practices of relatedness have drawn on Pulitj, our deep awa mirr spiritual philosophy that nourishes us on our country. This philosophy gave us our voice and our presence to act in our own ways of knowing and being on the landscapes created by the Western bureaucratic systems of higher education in Australia to bring forth our Tyikim knowledge systems to serve our own educational interests.
From this spiritual Puliyana kunun philosophical position the thesis examines colonising constructions of Tyikim peoples, Tyikim knowledge systems in education, Tyikim research and access to higher education for Tyikim students. From the research, it is argued that the paradigm, within which the enclave-derived approach to Indigenous higher education is located, is compatible with the normalising imperialistic ideology of higher education. The analysis of the Mirrwana/Wurrkama participatory action research project, central to the research, supported an argument for the Mirrwana/Wurrkama model of Indigenous higher education. Further analysis identified five key pedagogical principles embedded within this new model as metaphorically equivalent to wilan~bu of the pelangu. The thesis identifies the elements of the spirituality of the narrative exposed in the research-in-action through the Marri kubin mi thit wa!. This is a new paradigm for Tyikim participation in higher education within which the Mirrwana/Wurrkama model is located. Finally, the thesis identifies the scope for Tyikim knowledge use in the construction of contemporary bureaucratic and institutionalised higher education ngun nimbil thit thit teaching and learning experiences of Tyikim for the advancement of Tyikim interests. Here the tyangi yigin tjan spiritual concepts of narrative and landscape are drawn upon both awa mirr metaphorically and in marri kubin mi thit wa Tyikim pedagogical practice.
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Reif, Alison. "Waves of change : economic development and social wellbeing in Cardwell, North Queensland, Australia." University of Western Australia. School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2008. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2009.0184.
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This thesis is an anthropological study of local understandings of economic development in a small regional town in far North Queensland, Australia. How do preferences regarding lifestyle and social wellbeing impact on those living in the community? The study takes a particular interest in the aspirations, values and choices of the residents and their desires for the future and the future of their town. Throughout this thesis I argue that social wellbeing and lifestyle are important factors in Cardwell residents' choices and feature predominantly in their approaches to economic development. I contextualise this study through a comparative analysis of the effects of economic development on the wellbeing and lifestyle of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in the Cardwell region of north Australia. This comparison arises firstly from an anthropological interest in the circumstances of Australian Aboriginal people as a significant minority in regional towns. Explicit attention is directed toward the Aboriginal people of the Cardwell region as they constitute a socially and culturally distinct sector of the local population. Secondly, my study explores ways in which comparative work of this kind may be instructive on cultural issues relevant to economic development. This is a study of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people, who live in similar circumstances, and who, I propose, regard factors other than economic development as important. It is argued that while the Cardwell region does not provide ample nor a variety of economic opportunities, outward migration remains undesirable to many residents.
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McNichols, Chipo McNichols. "Can The Complex Care and Intervention (CCI) Program be Culturally Adapted as a Model For Use With Aboriginal Families Affected by Complex (Intergenerational) Trauma?" Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1465773400.
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Huang, Yao-Te, and 黃耀德. "Aboriginal Cultural and Creative Design Method Studies - a Case Study on Graphic Design." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/rf37zk.
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碩士國立東華大學
藝術創意產業學系
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Recent years, Aboriginal cultural and creative industry is one of the major industries nowadays in Taiwan. It is a key industry for Taiwan to pursue industrial structure adjustment and economic transition. The policies of fostering cultural and creative industry by our government today is no longer like what we did in the past, when only the cultural subjects were dealt in the cultural industry. Today, in addition to extending the industry scope, our government promoted the transformation and value addition of cultural industries by implementing relevant administrative strategies, directly transforming the cultural elements into industrial sectors. Thus, culture and creativity could be combined while the cultural and creative industry is included into the country’s guidelines to foster industry development. This study purpose of our research is to explore the key antecedents along the transformation process. People can use the Internet to quickly accept the information, so the regional people's lifestyles increasingly similar. Various cultures of Taiwan are destroyed, because the economic development. Culture become a business and can continue to develop and present, because the development of "cultural and creative industries". Cultural and creative industries are characterized by a "spiritual". Countries around the world began to develop cultural and creative industries, because it represents a country's symbol. Cultural and creative products are one of the cultural and creative industries. This study aims to investigate how to design cultural and creative products. Reference the cultural and creative product design process and Osborne checklists to establish the aborigines cultural and creative product design methods. This study designs the cultural and creative product of the aborigine’s cultural and creative product design methods. Key words : Indigenous culture、Cultural codes、Design Method、cultural and creative industry
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Galliford, Mark. "Transforming the tourist : Aboriginal tourism as investment in cultural transversality." 2009. http://arrow.unisa.edu.au:8081/1959.8/92157.
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The thesis is an examination of Aboriginal cultural tourism based on interviews with national and international tourists. The research found that the opportunity for tourists to share personal intimacy with Aboriginal people often outweighed the attraction to the cultural aspects of the tours and that this can contribute to the discourse of reconciliation.
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Hsu, Chi-Hsien, and 徐啟賢. "An Application and Case Studies of Taiwanese Aboriginal Material Civilization Confer to Cultural Product Design." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/69380166536881012872.
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碩士長庚大學
工業設計研究所
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The style of product design of a country and a nationality is influenced by the essential of traditional cultures and lifestyles. It is interested to explore whether or not that the Taiwanese aboriginal culture, playing increasingly important role to the land and adopting to be the basic reference for contemporary product design. The approach undertaken in this study includes four phases. First, a questionnaire survey is conducted in order to identify the consumers’ attitude, opinions, and expectation to the products with aboriginal culture aspect. Followed with the result, design principles will be suggested for design practicing. Second, the framework for product development is formed by the culture data analysis and design ideation table, resulting from literature review and experts opinions. Third phase, we conclude the results based on the literature review, questionnaire and the design practice, by which a design process for cultural product is established. At final phase, a consumers’ evaluation to the design is undertaken in order to prove the effect of the design practice and process. In general, the results of this study can be summarized as: (1) The Taiwanese aborigines’ unique culture is worthy, through design to apply to the product which existing in our daily life. However, most of Taiwanese aboriginal product, nowadays are crafts in the market. Therefore, it still have a space to be improved. (2) the work clarifying cultural characteristics and transforming the context between the culture and product design can benefit to design concept development. (3) The design process proposed can help to guide the design transform and culture message delivering properly. (4) Through this concept model of design process to develop the products, it is clearly to show that the design assessment have more recognition from consumers.
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Young, Tamara. "Going by the Book: Backpacker Travellers in Aboriginal Australia and the Negotiation of Text and Experience." 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/31581.
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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Long-term independent travel is regarded by many commentators as an active quest for discovery, and has long been proclaimed by individuals and organisations, both within and outside the tourism industry, as having a social, cultural and educative role. As independent travel becomes an increasingly popular and important sector of the travel market, the guidebook as cultural text becomes a significant and powerful mediator of experience. Guidebooks have a prevailing capacity to define and represent places, peoples and cultures and, at the same time, present descriptive and prescriptive information that simultaneously constructs the traveller and shapes their perspectives and experiences. Independent travellers such as backpackers, in their quest for the ‘authentic’, often seek out experiences with other cultures and demonstrate a desire to learn about, and interact with, indigenous people and their cultures. This thesis is concerned with the complex process of the dialectic construction of the backpacker (the traveller) as a particular gazing and experiencing subject, and of places, peoples and cultures (the travelled) as objects of the gaze. Central to the thesis is a consideration of the role of the guidebook as an interpretative lens through which the constructed and mediated nature of both the traveller and the travelled can be examined and understood. Drawing on theoretical and methodological insights from the interdisciplinary fields of tourism studies and cultural studies, the thesis seeks to understand relationships between text, audience and culture in tourism. The interpretative method of textual analysis is married with qualitative interviews with a sample of backpackers to Australia to examine the interplay between travellers, guidebooks and experiences. An analysis of guidebooks published by Lonely Planet, Rough Guide and Let's Go reveals that representations of Aboriginal people and their cultures are central to constructing an ‘authentic’ experience for independent travellers to Australia. These representations are, however, not without contradiction, as traveller discourses of authenticity, cultural awareness, cultural sensitivity and responsible travel are mobilised concurrently with popular tourism imagery and stereotypes of Aboriginal Australia. For the backpackers interviewed, the discrepancies between discourses provided in guidebooks means that their engagement with texts is dynamic, and their experiences with, and understandings of, Aboriginal Australia are continuously negotiated and renegotiated throughout their travel experiences. I argue in this thesis that backpackers actively engage with narratives and representations of culture contained within guidebooks, and negotiate these textual contradictions to construct a particular type of experience and traveller-self to make sense of their travels in Aboriginal Australia. The findings of this thesis raise important questions about the role that the text plays as mediator between the traveller and the travelled culture, and the tensions, contradictions and negotiations between text and lived experience.
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CHAPUT, PAUL JOSEPH ANDRE. "NATIVE STUDIES IN ONTARIO HIGH SCHOOLS: Revitalizing Indigenous Cultures in Ontario." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/7075.
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I hypothesize that specific aspects of education are central to the revitalization of culture amongst Aboriginal peoples in Ontario, and that this revitalization is integral to cultural continuity. I will show the relationship between key aspects of education and cultural revitalization as I track and assess the impacts of Ontario's high school Native Studies suite of courses. The key aspects are: the ability to generate and control content, the content itself (who it targets and serves and how it is applied) and how innovative ideas are implemented, through what processes and with whose help.
Recent trends emerging from the analysis of Ontario Ministry of Education (OME) data on the implementation of its suite of ten Native Studies high school courses suggest that the consistent efforts of several generations of First Nations, Métis and Inuit educators working behind the scenes since the late 1960s have resulted in significant and meaningful increases in the number of Native Studies courses offered, the number of schools and school boards offering them, and the number of students enrolling.
Considering the context of Aboriginal education in Ontario since the 1960s these general results may certainly be interpreted as progressive. I discuss seven catalysts that have had an indisputable influence over the ability of Indigenous educators to exercise an increasing degree of control over the Ontario Ministry of Education Native Studies curricula. While acknowledging the perspectives of scholars such as Taiaiake Albert, Maria Battiste, Pamela Palmater and Marie Brant-Castellano who argue for “Indian control of Indian education” based on the inherent right of Indigenous peoples to self-government - enshrined in Canada’s “Constitution Act” (1982) - my findings indicate that, given the resources and opportunity to lead the creation of Native Studies courses in Ontario, many Indigenous educators, leaders and communities have opted to take proactive roles in the process, all the while participating in the struggle for the Indigenous constitutionally-inherent right to control all aspects of their education. I argue that we are seeing a resurgence of Indigenous cultures in Canada, and more particularly in Ontario.Thesis (Master, Geography) -- Queen's University, 2012-04-18 18:20:07.041
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Griffiths, Michael. "Unsettling Artifacts: Biopolitics, Cultural Memory, and the Public Sphere in a (Post)Settler Colony." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/71283.
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My dissertation employed intellectual historian Michel Foucault’s notion of biopolitics—which can be most broadly parsed as the political organization of life—to examine the way the lives of Aboriginal people were regulated and surveilled in relation to settler European norms. The study is a focused investigation into a topic with global ramifications: the governance of race and sexuality and the effect of such governance on the production of apparently inclusive cultural productions within the public spheres. I argue that the way in which subaltern peoples have been governed in the past and the way their cultures have been appropriated continue to be in the present is not extraneous to but rather formative of what is often misleadingly called “the” public sphere of dominant societies.
In the second part, I analyze the legacies of this biopolitical moment and emphasize, particularly, the cultural politics of affect and trauma in relation to this (not quite) past.
Authors addressed include: Xavier Herbert, P. R. Stephensen, Rex Ingamells, Kim Scott, Alexis Wright, and others. I also examine Australian Aboriginal policy texts througout the twentieth century up to the "Bringing Them Home" Report (1997).
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Aylward, Marie Lynn. "The role of Inuit language and culture in Nunavut schooling : discourses of the Inuit qaujimajatuqangit conversation." 2006. http://arrow.unisa.edu.au:8081/1959.8/45749.
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The settlement of the Nunavut land claim in 1993 followed closely by the enactment of the Nunavut territorial legislation in 1999 were significant historical events for all aboriginal peoples in Canada. The newly formed public government made a commitment to have Inuit traditional knowledge, language, and culture as the foundation of "all we do". This commitment provides the starting point for the present study, which explores how the role of Inuit language and culture is constructed within the curricula and practices of Nunavut schooling. Data were generated from dialogue with Nunavut teachers and with authors of the Inuuqatigiit curriculum. In order to interpret the interview texts, a discourse analysis was undertaken using James Gee's ideas of situated meanings, cultural models, and discourses at work within them in relation to the Nunavut schooling context. This analysis was informed by a critical review of government and academic texts related to northern education policy.
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Waldorf, Susanne. "Moving Beyond Cultural Inclusion Towards a Curriculum of Settler Colonial Responsibility: A Teacher Education Curriculum Analysis." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/33680.
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Critical Indigenous scholars and their explicit allies have emphasized the need for curriculum and pedagogy in teacher education to address settler colonialism in Canada (Cannon, forthcoming(a); Cannon and Sunseri, 2011; Dion, 2009; Friedel, 2010a; Haig-Brown, 2009; Schick, 2010; Schick and St. Denis 2003, 2005; & St. Denis, 2007) . This thesis is primarily concerned with the existence of and possibilities for such a curriculum. In this thesis, I analyzed the curricula used in the three required courses of the secondary consecutive Initial Teacher Education (ITE) program in the 2011-2012 year at OISE for representations of settler colonialism in Canada. This study finds that while the curriculum in the ITE program at OISE focuses broadly on social justice, it shies away from addressing the ways that Canadians are complicit in ongoing colonialism. The thesis ends by highlighting some clear possibilities and challenges for a curriculum of settler colonial responsibility.
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Rahman, Kiara. "Indigenous student success in secondary schooling : factors impacting on student attendance, retention, learning and attainment in South Australia." 2010. http://arrow.unisa.edu.au:8081/1959.8/91202.
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This thesis investigates factors which impact on Indigenous student learning and success in secondary schooling in South Australia. The research contributes to greater understandings of why Indigenous students make the decision to stay on at school, and highlights the importance of teachers and culturally responsive schooling for improved learning outcomes.
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Laing, Gahr Tanya. "The origins of culture : an ethnographic exploration of the Ktunaxa creation stories." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10170/603.
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This project explores the Ktunaxa Nation's creation stories in order to understand the significance of these narratives in the formation and maintenance of the Ktunaxa culture. These stories inform and support the Ktunaxa ways of knowing, their worldviews, their history pre- and post-contact, and their connection to the geography of the Ktunaxa territory. Performance theory has been used to identify the ways in which the stories were shared during the filming of this project, and narrative inquiry has been used to draw out the creation story's central themes and how they relate to the ethnophilosophy of the Ktunaxa people --the interdependence of humans with all of creation; lessons from the animals including Skincu¢ the Coyote; the trauma of residential schools and the impact that has had on the culture and stories of the Ktunaxa; the landforms within the territory; and the responsibilities of all human beings according to these teachings. The research reflections identify truths that emerged through the ceremony of storytelling--rules to live by, ways to approach those within and outside the culture, lessons about being part of a community, and how to pattern the people and the culture off of the surrounding wildlife and geography. These lessons and stories relate to and support the culture of the Ktunaxa, past and present, by providing a connection to the Ktunaxa landscape and all that is within it, and anchors the culture with stories of that place that have been told for many thousands of years. Finally, this project discusses how Aboriginal worldviews contribute to and nourish the field of communication studies.
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Sengara, Ryan, University of Western Sydney, and of Arts Education and Social Sciences College. "Redfern kids connect : technology and empowerment." 2005. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/27868.
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Redfern Kids Connect is a community technology project that has run in inner-city Sydney since 2002. Redfern is known to many as the heart of urban Aboriginal Australia and as a diverse community facing challenges around poverty, crime and race relations. For three years, children (8-12 years old), and volunteers (university students and young professionals) have met each Saturday to play on computers and socialise. The project’s experiences with relationships, technology, and empowerment have been as confusing as they have been exciting. In the spirit of action research, this thesis explores the impacts the project has had. Uniquely embedded in the process of reflection occurring away from its on-the-ground activities, it tells the project’s story through the eyes of its volunteers. The research concludes that the project's main contributions to empowerment have been through building social capital (Cox, Putnam) and improving new forms of literacy (Warschauer). Vital to supporting and extending these outcomes have been taking a social approach to supporting technology use, shaping a safe and open environment (Marvin et. al), supporting critical thinking and expression (Freire) and examining the project 'behind the scenes'. The author takes the dual role of researcher and participant in the research.Master of Arts (Hons)
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Kowal, Emma Esther. "The proximate advocate: improving indigenous health on the postcolonial frontier." 2006. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/1625.
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This thesis presents an ethnography of white researchers who work at the Darwin Institute of Indigenous Health Research. This group of ‘proximate advocates’ is made up of predominantly middle-class, educated and antiracist white health professionals. Their decision to move from more populated areas to the north of Australia, where Indigenous disadvantage is most pronounced, is motivated by the hope of enacting postcolonial justice so long denied to the nation’s first peoples.This ethnography thus contributes to the anthropology of postcolonial forms, and specifically benevolent forms. The Darwin Institute of Indigenous Health Research is an example of a postcolonial space where there is an attempt to invert colonial power relations: that is, to acknowledge the effects of colonisation on Indigenous people and remedy them.
The thesis begins with an account of suburban life in contemporary Darwin focused on the figure of the ‘longgrasser’ who threatens to create disorder at my local shops. This is an example of the postcolonial frontier, the place where antiracist white people encounter radically-different Indigenous people. Part 1 develops a conceptual model for understanding the process of mutual recognition that creates the subjectivities of Indigenous people and of white antiracists.
Drawing on critiques of liberalism and postcolonial theory, in Part 2 I describe the knowledge system dominant in Indigenous health discourse, postcolonial logic. It is postcolonial logic that prescribes how white antiracists should assist Indigenous people by furthering Indigenous self-determination. I argue that postcolonial logic can be understood as the junction of remedialism (a form of liberalism) and orientalism. The melding of these two concepts produces remediable difference: a difference that can be brought into the norm.
In Part 3 I describe how white researchers at the Institute experience radical difference, or at least its possibility. These experiences challenge the concept of remediable difference. If Indigenous people are not remediably different, but radically different, the process of mutual recognition breaks down, and the viability of a white antiracist subjectivity is called into question. The ensuing breakdown of postcolonial logic threatens to expose white antiracists as no different from their assimilationist predecessors.
Part 4 explores the underlying dilemmas of the postcolony that are revealed when postcolonial logic unravels. The dilemma of historical continuity emerges when the discursive techniques that enact historical discontinuity between postcolonisers and their predecessors break down. The dilemma of social improvement is the possibility that the practices of the self-determination era not only resemble assimilation, but are assimilation. It is the possibility that any attempts to extend the benefits of modernity enjoyed by non-Indigenous Australia to Indigenous people will erode their cultural distinctiveness. The postcolonial condition is the experience of living with these aporias.
In the conclusion, I consider the implications of my argument for the current Australian political context, for the project of liberal multiculturalism, and for the broader problem of power and difference. I look to friendship as a deceptively simple, perhaps implausible, and yet powerful trope that can relieve the postcolonial condition and offer hope for peaceful coexistence in the postcolony.
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Jaworski, Katrina. "The gender of suicide." 2007. http://arrow.unisa.edu.au:8081/1959.8/48839.
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Suicide holds an ambivalent position in contemporary social and cultural contexts. It questions what it means to live and die, yet provides no clear-cut answers about death or dying, life or living. This thesis explores some of the ways suicide has been understood and represented, to demonstrate that knowing suicide is dependent not only on what suicide means, but also on how meanings of suicide become part of knowledge. Knowing suicide is not a matter of responding to it as self-evident, transparent, neutral and obvious, but rather is implicated in social processes and norms central to how knowledge gains intelligibility. Guided by poststructuralist, postmodernist, feminist and postfeminist philosophies, the thesis takes up gender and gendering as its central focus, to interrogate how knowledge about suicide becomes knowledge. Critically examining a wide variety of textual sources, it argues that suicide is principally rendered as a masculine, and even a masculinist, practice. Knowing suicide today is anchored in suicidology - the study of suicide - and maintained by institutional sites of practice including sociology, law, medicine, psy-knowledge and newsprint media, each of which is analysed here. Suicide as masculine and masculinist practice is invoked through multiple, often-contradictory and inextricably linked readings of gender, even while claiming homogeneity. Its gendered foundations can however be made to appear gender-neutral, even when actually gender-saturated. The twin gender movements of neutrality and repleteness are in fact crucial to the knowing of suicide. The thesis establishes that knowing suicide can never occur outside discourse. Even more importantly, how suicide enters discourse cannot be thought outside gender. The body matters to the production of deeply problematic understandings of agency, intent and violence, on which the production of suicide as masculine and masculinist depends. It becomes clear that such dependence rests not only on gender, but also on race and sexuality, as conditions of its knowing. The thesis suggests that further attention be given to the production and maintenance of highly reductive and limiting homogenous truth claims in suicide - truth claims that validate and privilege some interpretations of suicide, at the expense of rendering others less legitimate and serious. If the processes and practices of interpreting suicide become a site of permanent debate, they are more likely to challenge the ways in which masculinist ways of knowing render, and limit, the intelligibility of suicide.
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Nikolakis, William. "Determinants of success among Indigenous enteprise in the Northern Territory of Australia." 2008. http://arrow.unisa.edu.au:8081/1959.8/48854.
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This study seeks to improve the understanding of Indigenous Enterprise Development (IED) efforts undertaken on communal Indigenous land in the Northern Territory of Australia. Success in enterprise may support the achievement of a range of social, political and economic objectives for Indigenous peoples. The thesis offers a contribution to knowledge and literature on IED by bringing understanding to the meaning of success for Indigenous enterprise, identifying those factors that contribute to its success as well as presenting the barriers that prevent it. This study is the most recent rigorous scholarly work of IED on Indigenous land in the Northern Territory. The focus of this research is on Indigenous commercial enterprise development at a communal and individual level. Indigenous enterprise development is said to be different from other forms of enterprise development because of the legal rights of Indigenous peoples and because of particular cultural attributes, such as different perceptions of property rights in the Indigenous context and an emphasis on values like collectivism and sharing. These differences are found to shape notions of success and approaches to development. The research reviews literature in the international and domestic context on Indigenous economic development and Indigenous entrepreneurship. It also draws from internal and external documents of relevant institutions and news sources. These sources and findings are then built upon with fifty six in-depth, face-to-face interviews of selected participants who are experts or opinion leaders on IED in the region. These participants represented a variety of interest groups such as the government, academia, the Indigenous community and businesses from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultures in the Northern Territory. This study used a qualitative research approach for data collection and analysis. The researcher utilized a qualitative data analysis method, including the reporting of field notes, preparation of field notes into transcripts, coding of data, display of data, the development of conclusions, and creation of a report. This study identified five categories of barriers to successful enterprise development on Indigenous land in the Northern Territory. These barriers are: high levels of conflict and mistrust, socio-cultural norms and values that can work against success, a lack of human capital, a poor institutional framework and economic and structural factors. There were four categories of factors found that support the development of successful Indigenous enterprise: developing business acumen, integrating culture within the enterprise, separating business from community politics and greater independence from government. While definitions of success varied across the region there were common objectives for Indigenous enterprise, such as eliminating welfare dependency and maintaining a link to land. Ultimately, success for Indigenous enterprise was deemed to be business survival, but in ways that are congruent with each Indigenous community?s values. The findings in this research emphasize that certain cultural attributes may act to constrain successful enterprise development, but can be integrated into an enterprise through changes in enterprise structure, or practice, to support successful economic outcomes. The research also emphasizes the importance of institutional settings on human capital and successful enterprise development in the region. This study?s findings can potentially guide and inform further research in this field. The research develops a number of policy recommendations which offer potential support to policymakers in addressing the important social problem of Indigenous disadvantage through enterprise development initiatives.This study seeks to improve the understanding of Indigenous Enterprise Development (IED) efforts undertaken on communal Indigenous land in the Northern Territory of Australia. Success in enterprise may support the achievement of a range of social, political and economic objectives for Indigenous peoples. The thesis offers a contribution to knowledge and literature on IED by bringing understanding to the meaning of success for Indigenous enterprise, identifying those factors that contribute to its success as well as presenting the barriers that prevent it. This study is the most recent rigorous scholarly work of IED on Indigenous land in the Northern Territory.
Thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 2008
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Huang, Chen-Yi, and 黃貞儀. "Case Studies of Taiwan’s Local and Cultural Creative Practice Research on Minnan, Hakka, Aborigines and Plains Aborigines." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/42859086896394084098.
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碩士國立雲林科技大學
創意生活設計系
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Culture is an internal body of an ethnic style and all the cultures – old or new, western or eastern – have their own features. Today, diverse culture has also become a new expression of life: Every place has its own story with abundant and extraordinary connotation, which created diverse cultural styles. The feelings towards the same memory created by different cultures also touch people’s heart and therefore created “Emotional Branding”. Plus connections through online communities also shortened distance between people and the space, people now pay more attention to spiritual abundance. The past capital branding concept has gradually wanted and “human-like branding” has now formed into shape. In other words, brands must be featured with emotional personality and living philosophy in order to attract the crowds, to deliver the stories, and then promote cultures of the land and have them connected with the world. Based on this reason, this study has collected cultural creative practice cases conducted by four ethnic groups – Minnan, Hakka, aborigines and plains aborigines – and investigated these cultural creative practitioners through in-depth interviews. Then the interview contents were analyzed through grounded theory in order to understand the processes and obstacles that they have been confronted on the road of building their cultural creative career, and to discuss the connection between culture and emotional brands as well as the derived influence towards cultural identity. Furthermore, a comparative research was conducted to find out the similarities and differences of brands created by different Taiwanese cultural emotions and then, through hybridity theory and phenomenography, to analyze their emotional elements and culture codes. Finally, elements of emotional brands shaped by Taiwanese cultures as well as inspirations of brands towards cultural identity were summarized from the perspectives of globalization to build a cultural creative practice pattern. Research results reveal that Taiwan has been affected by foreign colonial and local culture that, whether it emphasizes on one style or a personality mixed with various styles, its charm of diverse culture has given people the first impression of Taiwan. Besides, emotional brands also help to enhance the positioning and identity of brands; and the introduction of emotional marketing and cultural codes have formed a brand unity, which touches peoples heart and fortify local connections. Plus the applications of online communities, emotional brands featured with cultural elements have created more values of “beauty” and “affections”. That is, to arouse people’s understanding and recognition towards Taiwan, and to reach brands’ social responsibilities with “affections”.
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Henhawk, Daniel. "Aboriginal participation in sport: Critical issues of race, culture and power." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/4826.
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This study is a qualitative examination of my lived experiences and the lived experiences of my immediate family in sport. Using critical race theory (CRT) as my guiding theoretical framework, this research project answers Denzin’s (2003) call to advance “a radical performative social science” that “confront[s] and transcend[s] the problems surrounding the colour line in the 21st century” (p.5). As such, the purpose of this project was to explore issues of race, culture and power within our lived sport experiences and to present these experiences in such way so as to unpack the tensions associated with being an Aboriginal person living in today’s Canadian society.
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Liu, Yu-Hsiu, and 劉育秀. "Cultural and Creative Product Design Studies of Taiwanese Aborigines - a Case Study of Lanyu Tao." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/65601432457262605692.
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碩士國立高雄第一科技大學
機械與自動化工程系工業設計碩士班
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People can use the Internet to quickly accept the information, so the regional people''s lifestyles increasingly similar. Various cultures of Taiwan are destroyed, because the economic development. Culture become a business and can continue to develop and present, because the development of "cultural and creative industries". Cultural and creative industries are characterized by a "spiritual". Countries around the world began to develop cultural and creative industries, because it represents a country''s symbol. Cultural and creative products are one of the cultural and creative industries. This study aims to investigate how to design cultural and creative products. Reference the cultural and creative product design process and Osborne checklists to establish the aborigines cultural and creative product design methods. This study designs the cultural and creative product of Lanyu Tao by the aborigine’s cultural and creative product design methods.
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Neill, Brian William. "Assessing the Need for Culturally Responsive Science Curriculum: Two Case Studies from British Columbia." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/6735.
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This inquiry began with a global question: Why are Aboriginal high school students underrepresented in the sciences? This led to the following series of questions: What is science? Is Aboriginal knowledge about nature and naturally occurring events science? What is science literacy? What are culturally responsive approaches to science education? The initial inquiry began as part of the Aboriginal Knowledge and Science Education Research Project, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Over time the inquiry morphed into two case studies. The first case study focused on a quantitative exploration to examine the current state of student performance in British Columbia secondary school science (Biology 12, Chemistry 12, and Physics 12), and mathematics (Principles of Mathematics 12). The examination of performance trends for over a decade confirmed the underperformance of Aboriginal students in secondary school sciences and mathematics when compared to non-Aboriginal students. The second case study sought to establish criteria, identify, and document a model project that incorporated the methods of western modern science (WMS) knowledge and ways of knowing represented by traditional ecological knowledge and wisdom (TEKW), local ecological knowledge (LEK), and indigenous knowledge (IK) in a local environment (place-based) and that was culturally responsive to students and faithful to science education principles. A model project was identified in British Columbia operating within the Heiltsuk First Nation territory by the Qqs (pronounced “kucks”) Projects Society. This project exemplified the Te Kotahitanga Project in Aotearoa/New Zealand by engaging student interns in science in place. Qqs partnered with a number of non-governmental organizations to develop the Supporting Emerging Aboriginal Stewards (SEAS) Initiative, whereby interns used WMS techniques to study their traditional territory in the Great Bear Rainforest. The SEAS project was deemed to make science more relevant for Aboriginal students, who may otherwise have rejected it because of a possible conflict with their cultural value systems and personal relevance.
There is a persistent tension between science espoused by WMS, and the wisdom and sacredness of indigenous knowledge and wisdom (IKW). Finally, recommendations are proposed for a Two-row Wampum Belt or a trans-systemic practice that would enable IKW and WMS knowledge to operate in a spirit of mutual cultural responsiveness, followed by recommendations for future study.Graduate
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Yang, Sen-Bo, and 楊勝博. "The Influence of Two-Day Weekends on Domestic Travel Patterns--Case Studies of Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village and Janfusun Fancyworld." Thesis, 1999. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/14720256418087739821.
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碩士逢甲大學
建築及都市計畫研究所
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How people change their travel pattern during weekends has become an important issue for tourism industry since the government implemented the "two-day weekend" policy in 1998. The main purpose of this study was to explore the influence of such two-day weekend policy on domestic travel patterns. Specifically, it was to examine the differences between two-day weekends and non-two-day weekends regarding the time allocation of tourists'' travel schedule, the distance of their trips, the number of scenic spots in each trip, and the expenditures. Furthermore, it was to investigate the relationship between the destination and the travel pattern. Finally, the association between socio-demographic characteristics of domestic tourists and their travel patterns was also investigated. Data were collected from the visitors in two amusement parks, Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village and Janfusun Fancyworld. The survey was conducted during four weekends from April 17th to May 9th, 1999. A total of 656 subjects whose institutions carry out two-day weekends were drawn and interviewed on site. There were several significant findings in this study. First of all, the influence of two-day weekends on domestic travel pattern is only significant for start-off time and return time. There are more visitors starting their trips on Friday or Saturday during the two-day weekend than during the non-two-day weekend. Moreover, people intend to return on Sunday, and this tendency is more significant during non-two-day weekends than two-day weekends. A further analysis revealed that tourists who take two-day trips are more likely to start on Saturday than on the other days. Secondly, it was found that people prefer one-day trips to multi-day trips during both types of weekends. However, there are more one-day trips on two-day weekends than on non-two-day weekends. It was also found that there is no significant difference between the two types of weekends in regard to the number of scenic spots visited in one trip, the travel companions, the distance of travel, and the expenditure. In terms of the destination difference, the visitors to Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village are more likely to start their trips on Saturday than the visitors to Janfusun Fancyworld. Finally it was found that visitors'' residence is associated with their travel patterns. Visitors who live farther from the destination are more likely to take multi-day multi-stop trips, start the trip on Saturday, and return on Sunday or Monday.
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Lu, Ching-Wen, and 盧慶文. "Creative Images and Cultural writings of Taiwanese Aborigines’ Children: Case Studies of Amis Makrahay and Bunun Sazasa Elementary Schools Students." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/j4534t.
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碩士國立東華大學
族群關係與文化研究所
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The aim of this thesis is to explore the socio-cultural meanings of aboriginal children’s creative writing. The research is based on the ethnographic data derived from the oral narratives, creative images and cultural writings of two aboriginal elementary students. It focuses on different forms of writing as ‘texts’ that are created by aboriginal children. The intention is to reflect upon Taiwanese aboriginal children’s daily life and the process of change in tribal societies. It also aims to record how these students learn and to focus on the research activity of a Han Taiwanese teacher. The project is aimed at increasing students’ literacy and their sense of subjectivity. In particular, this study intends to promote the possibility of aboriginal children’s literature through children’s own voices and points of view. I argue that most children’s literature tends to ignore children’s creativity and their ways of interpreting the world around them. The concept of children-as-writers is not very commonly found in children’s literature, even less so in the case of aboriginal children’s literature that is written by indigenous children themselves. This research attempts to bridge the gap by offering a series of examples of aboriginal school children’s writing. In each of these cases, writing does not just represent a vehicle for straightforward, practically automatic, voyages of self-discovery and cultural identity affirmation. It contributes to the construction of contemporary narratives of aboriginal subjectivity of who they are and what their traditional ethnic cultures are.
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Wenstob, Stella Maris. "Canoes and colony: the dugout canoe as a site of intercultural engagement in the colonial context of British Columbia (1849-1871)." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/5971.
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The cedar dugout canoe is iconically associated with First Nations peoples of the Pacific Northwest coast, but the vital contribution it made to the economic and social development of British Columbia is historically unrecognized. This beautifully designed and crafted oceangoing vessel, besides being a prized necessity to the maritime First Nations peoples, was an essential transportation link for European colonists. In speed, maneuverability, and carrying capacity it vied with any other seagoing technology of the time. The dugout canoe became an important site of engagement between First Nations peoples and settlers. European produced textual and visual records of the colonial period are examined to analyze the dugout canoe as a site of intercultural interaction with a focus upon the European representation. This research asks: Was the First Nations' dugout canoe essential to colonial development in British Columbia and, if so, were the First Nations acknowledged for this vital contribution?
Analysis of primary archival resources (letters and journals), images (photographs, sketches and paintings) and colonial publications, such as the colonial dispatches, memoirs and newspaper accounts, demonstrate that indeed the dugout canoe and First Nations canoeists were essential to the development of the colony of British Columbia. However, these contributions were differentially acknowledged as the colony shifted from a fur trade-oriented operation to a settler-centric development that emphasized the alienation of First Nations’ land for settler use. By focusing research on the dugout canoe and its use and depiction by Europeans, connections between European colonists and First Nations canoeists, navigators and manufacturers are foregrounded. This focus brings together these two key historical players demonstrating their “entangled” nature (Thomas 1991:139) and breaking down “silences” and “trivializations” in history (Trouillot 1995:96), working to build an inclusive and connected history of colonial British Columbia.Graduate