Experiencing and writing Indigeneity, rurality and gender: Australian reflections

Ramzan, Bebe; Pini, Barbara; Bryant, Lia

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2009.05.003

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“…farming) kids, they were typically referring to the white settler population. The employment of rural Indigenous Australians in the mining sector is extremely limited as it is in productionist industrial agriculture (see Ramzan, Pini, and Bryant 2009). …”

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Teachers and the emotional dimensions of class in resource‐affected rural Australia

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McDonald

2010

British Journal of Sociology of Education

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In recent years, a 'cultural turn' in the study of class has resulted in a rich body of work detailing the ways in which class advantage and disadvantage are emotionally inscribed and embodied in educational settings. To date, however, much of this literature has focused on the urban sphere. In order to address this gap in the literature, this paper focuses on the affective evaluations made by teachers employed in rural and remote Australian schools of students' families, bodies, expectations and practices. The central argument is that moral ascriptions of class by the teachers are powerfully shaped by dominant socio-cultural constructions of rurality that equate 'the rural' with agriculture.

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2010

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“…Key works have long shown how the denial of the nation's Indigenous histories and livelihoods, and subsequent ongoing processes of colonisation, are at the centre of how rural Australian landscapes have been produced and inscribed as white and/or raceless (e.g. Ramzan, Pini, and Bryant 2009;Bryant and Pini 2011). Rural spaces in Australia, referred to colloquially as 'the bush' and 'the country', have long been assembled as synonymous with whiteness and heterosexual masculinity and idealised as sources of national identity and belonging (Bryant and Pini 2011).…”

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“…For much of the twentieth century, such 'agrarian myths', anchored in distinct white rural farming identities, were so central to Australian national identity that they influenced the policies of all the major political parties (Wear 2009, 84). Similarly, the notion of the 'rural idyll' has been used to romanticise ideals of white rural livelihoods across the rural Anglosphere, and has also been employed to depict Australian rural towns as depositories of communitarian and traditional values (Poiner 1990;Ramzan, Pini, and Bryant 2009). Parallel critiques in Britain have shown how white/Anglo/Celtic imaginings of rural places and the 'rural community' have both dominated pre-occupations with rurality and been central to British nation-building mythology (Neal 2002;Tyler 2006;Bressey 2009).…”

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Centring settler colonialism in rural Australian multicultures: race, place and local identities

Butler

Ben

2020

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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In the current age of rural mobilities and economic restructuring, the ethnic and racial compositions of rural towns across Anglosphere nations of the Global North have significantly transformed. As a result of these changes, the conditions which support rural multicultures are increasingly relevant to scholarship and policymaking. 'Everyday multiculturalism' and 'convivialities' have become key approaches within such research in rural environments. These perspectives offer important insights into understanding complex social relationships, reciprocities and circumstances of belonging in rural places. However, as UK-based critiques argue, a focus on 'everyday multiculturalism' and 'convivialities' may also risk obscuring how colonial legacies have shaped and informed racialised and classed hierarchies of belonging in distinct contexts. In this paper we turn these critiques to settler colonial Australia and its increasingly diverse rural towns. We bring together emerging literature in the study of rural migration with scholarship from Indigenous studies and anthropology on Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal rural social relations. Working at the intersection of these bodies of works, we argue that the histories and structures of settler colonialism be centred in research on rural multicultures, as these legacies and ongoing conditions shape social relationships in contemporary rural Australia.

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“…We also acknowledge the challenges of talking about 'rural women' as some kind of known or essentialist category. Hence, the importance of feminist insights that recognise the intersection of rurality and gender with other markers of identity related to culture, Indigeneity, sexuality, class, disability and age within the context of post-colonial rural Australia where whiteness is privileged (Malatzky and Bourke, 2016;Ramzan et al, 2009).…”

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Rethinking women's experiences of depression and recovery as emplacement: Spatiality, care and gender relations in rural Australia

Fullagar

O’Brien

2018

Journal of Rural Studies

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In Australia and other OECD countries women who are recovering from depression in rural areas find that access to professional care is fraught with difficulties. Despite the emphasis on the social determinants shaping mental ill health and recovery, Australian rural support has been largely defined by biomedical and psy-expertise focused on correcting biochemistry and cognition through different models of formal medical care. Addressing the limitations of individualised biomedical models, this article offers a relational understanding of how recovery from depression is produced through rural and gendered emplacement (Pink, 2011). Theorising recovery through the notion of emplacement shifts attention from an individualised notion of embodied distress (symptoms, emotions, cognition) towards a social understanding of the dynamics of human and non-human relations that are afforded by different care practices (from medical treatment to social support). To date there has been little critical analysis of how women's distress and recovery experiences are gendered in relation to both formal and informal care in rural places. Extending the insights of geographers, social anthropologists and feminist scholars we analyse the recovery stories of women living in rural and regional Australia. We focus specifically on how rural women experienced uncertainty and stigma that emerged through formal care spaces and impeded their recovery-the gendered dynamics of em(dis)placement were identified. In contrast, we identify how particular informal care spaces enabled women's recovery through multiple relations with human and nonhuman others. Our research aims to contribute a critical understanding of how everyday professional care and self-care practices are intertwined with the complex gendered negotiations of emplacement and displacement that shape rural mental (ill) health.

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Experiencing and writing Indigeneity, rurality and gender: Australian reflections

Cited by 22 publications

References 54 publications

Teachers and the emotional dimensions of class in resource‐affected rural Australia

Teachers and the emotional dimensions of class in resource‐affected rural Australia

Centring settler colonialism in rural Australian multicultures: race, place and local identities

Rethinking women's experiences of depression and recovery as emplacement: Spatiality, care and gender relations in rural Australia

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