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Mia Mia Aboriginal Community Development Fostering Cultural Security

Authors

Edited by
Cheryl Kickett-Tucker
, Curtin University of Technology, Perth
Edited in association with
Dawn Bessarab
, University of Western Australia, Perth,
Juli Coffin
, Notre Dame University, Australia,
Michael Wright
, Curtin University, Perth
Published 2016

Description

Until recently, Aboriginal people have been subjected to mainly top-down development, which has proven damaging to communities. Mia Mia Aboriginal Community Development offers an alternative to such approaches, promoting cultural security in order to empower Aboriginal people to strengthen their own communities. The authors take a multidisciplinary approach to the topics of Aboriginal community development, Aboriginal history, cultural security and community studies. This book includes chapters examining historical and contemporary Aboriginal conceptions of community development, and the effects of post-structuralism,…

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Key features

  • Written by leading Aboriginal scholars and elders, as well as community health practitioners
  • Provides a multidisciplinary approach to community development that focuses on cultural security, history and the effects of globalisation
  • Provides practical tools and strategies for improvement in communities, reinforced by case studies and review exercises

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