Culture and Wellbeing: The Case of Indigenous Australians

Dockery, Alfred Michael

doi:10.1007/s11205-010-9582-y

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“…Pointing out that many immigrant and refugee communities are characterised by other social values, they claim that the profession now must 'question the primacy of Western (modernist) values and to rethink just what is universal' (Gray & Coates 2010, p. 21, emphasis in original). The risks inherent in a social work implementing western-based ideas about 'the best interest of the child' among culturally different groups are illustrated, for example, by the child protection interventions among Aboriginals in Australia during the first half of the twentieth century, where many children (now known as the Stolen Generation) were separated from their families and taken into custody (Dockery, 2010;Thorpe, 1994).…”

Section: Current Debate In Social Work: Culturally Appropriate Practimentioning

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European Somali Children Dumped? On families, parents, and children in a transnational context

Johnsdotter

2013

European Journal of Social Work

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Section: Current Debate In Social Work: Culturally Appropriate Practimentioning

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European Somali Children Dumped? On families, parents, and children in a transnational context

Johnsdotter

2013

European Journal of Social Work

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“…Community well-being Compound term encompassing mental, physical, social, and cultural health (Zubrick et al 2004, Carson et al 2007, Dockery 2010, Biddle and Swee 2012. 5 Effort Motivation, time, energy, and resources expended by the residential population to obtain food resources (McCarthy and McArthur 1960, Meehan 1982, Altman 1987, Walsh 2008, Codding et al 2011.…”

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The persistence of subsistence: qualitative social-ecological modeling of indigenous aquatic hunting and gathering in tropical Australia

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Dambacher³

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ABSTRACT. Subsistence remains critical to indigenous people in settler-colonial states such as Australia, providing key foundations for indigenous identities and for wider state recognition. However, the drivers of contemporary subsistence are rarely fully articulated and analyzed in terms of likely changing conditions. Our interdisciplinary team combined past research experience gained from multiple sites with published literature to create two generalized qualitative models of the socio-cultural and environmental influences on indigenous aquatic subsistence in northern Australia. One model focused on the longer term (inter-year to generational) persistence of subsistence at the community scale, the other model on shorter term (day to season) drivers of effort by active individuals. The specification of driver definitions and relationships demonstrates the complexities of even generalized and materialist models of contemporary subsistence practices. The qualitative models were analyzed for emergent properties and for responses to plausible changes in key variables: access, habitat degradation, social security availability, and community dysfunction. Positive human community condition is shown to be critical to the long-term persistence of subsistence, but complex interactions of negative and positive drivers shape subsistence effort expended at the individual scale and within shorter time frames. Such models enable motivations, complexities, and the potential management and policy levers of significance to be identified, defined, causally related, and debated. The models can be used to augment future models of human-natural systems, be tested against case-specific field conditions and/or indigenous perspectives, and aid preliminary assessments of the effects on subsistence of changes in social and environmental conditions, including policy settings.

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“…traditional lifestyle has been associated with significant health benefits for Indigenous Australians (Burgess et al 2008;O'Dea 1984), and an association has been found between cultural attachment and positive outcomes in health, psychological wellbeing, substance abuse, and employment (Dockery 2009(Dockery , 2011. It is important to identify what works in recovery from substance abuse for Indigenous Australians, including identifying cultural drivers of resilience and health gains (National Health and Medical Research Council 2002).…”

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