Papers by Deirdre Howard-Wagner
The Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) undertakes highquality, independent re... more The Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) undertakes highquality, independent research to further the social and economic development and empowerment of Indigenous people throughout Australia. For more than 25 years, CAEPR has aimed to combine academic and teaching excellence on Indigenous economic and social development and public policy with realism, objectivity and relevance. CAEPR maintains a substantial publications program, including Research Monographs, Discussion Papers, Working Papers and Topical Issues. Topical Issues present a broad range of documents relating to contemporary issues and debates, and are produced for rapid distribution to enable widespread discussion and comment. They are subject to internal peer review. All CAEPR publications are available in electronic format for free download from CAEPR's website: caepr.cass.anu.edu.au CAEPR is located within the Research School of Social Sciences in the College of Arts & Social Sciences at the Australian National University (ANU). The Centre is funded from a range of sources, including ANU, the Australian Research Council, industry and philanthropic partners, and Australian state and territory governments.
Teaching cultural awareness relies on individuals providing their particular perspective. In this... more Teaching cultural awareness relies on individuals providing their particular perspective. In this paper we present the technology developed around creating an online system to share multiple experiences of Aboriginal Culture in New South Wales (NSW), Australia within a social-constructivist framework. The focus of the material is the Kinship system used for thousands of years in this region. This topics was chosen as the history of conflict over government policy, social inclusion and technology take-up has continually returned to issues of kinship and knowledge maintenance with in the respective societies, areas in which Aboriginal and European society are markedly different. We are using stories from the community to augment a Kinship workshop presentation which has been videoed and is available online. Using innovative web services, teachers will be able to select the stories that are relevant to their course, and map these to a range of scenarios being developed. The scenarios e...
This paper is an account of Aboriginal community engagement in relation to the design and develop... more This paper is an account of Aboriginal community engagement in relation to the design and development of a Project being undertaken through an Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) grant to develop Indigenous Online Cultural Teaching & Sharing (Kinship On-line Project), which is an on-line cultural education workshop based around Aboriginal Kinship systems used in Australia. The Project is built on an existing face-toface interactive presentation based on the theme of Australian Aboriginal Kinship systems developed by Lynette Riley. The on-line cultural education workshop is being designed as an experiential learning environment for two reasons. Firstly, there is a long denial of Aboriginal knowledges and their importance in contemporary Australia. Secondly, the experiential format is used in Aboriginal learning and is therefore an appropriate way of conveying these knowledge systems. The Project reflects where possible Aboriginal knowledge sharing processes, bringing this into mai...
Dampak dari pemerintahan neoliberal terhadap masyarakat adat di negara-negara penganut liberal ad... more Dampak dari pemerintahan neoliberal terhadap masyarakat adat di negara-negara penganut liberal adalah kemungkinan terjadinya pembatasan akses. Yang khusus dari buku ini adalah perbandingan yang berbeda dalam menggambarkan antara tiga negara – Australia, Kanada, dan Selandia Baru. Dalam serangkaian studi mikro yang bersifat empiris dan interpretatif, buku ini membahas koherensi kebijakan bersama, tetapi juga memaparkan keanehan dalam dinamika operasional pemerintahan neoliberal, baik di dalam setiap negara maupun di antara mereka. Kesimpulannya, studi ini memperluas perdebatan tentang dan analisis kebijakan pemerintah kontemporer.
The purpose of this Discussion Paper is to report the observations of the Strong Culture, Strong ... more The purpose of this Discussion Paper is to report the observations of the Strong Culture, Strong Families program run for Aboriginal male detainees and their families in the Alexander Maconachie Centre, which is a prison and remand centre in the Australian Capital Territory. The paper aims to draw on the observations to examine and explain the program in the context of (1) parenting in prison and the creation of positive parenting experiences; (2) connecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander detainees to family, identity and culture in the context of desistance and restorative justice; and, (3) understanding the program as an innovative Indigenous justice program. The research also asks important questions about the policy and wider justice context in which such programs are developed and take place.
Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies, 2016
Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies, 2016
As Australia moves into the twenty-first century, its policy towards its Aboriginal and Torres St... more As Australia moves into the twenty-first century, its policy towards its Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples has focused on two primary areas: (1) making Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities safe as part of the Council of Australian Governments National Indigenous Reform Agreement (Closing the Gap); and (2) providing a fair, equitable, and accessible system of justice for Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander peoples.
Indigenous Invisibility in the City contextualises the significant social change in Indigenous li... more Indigenous Invisibility in the City contextualises the significant social change in Indigenous life circumstances and resurgence that came out of social movements in cities. It is about Indigenous resurgence and community development by First Nations people for First Nations people in cities. Seventy-five years ago, First Nations peoples began a significant postwar period of relocation to cities in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Aotearoa New Zealand. First Nations peoples engaged in projects of resurgence and community development in the cities of the four settler states. First Nations peoples, who were motivated by aspirations for autonomy and empowerment, went on to create the foundations of Indigenous social infrastructure. This book explains the ways First Nations people in cities created and took control of their own futures. A fact largely wilfully ignored in policy contexts. Today, differences exist over the way governments and First Nations peoples see the role and responsibilities of Indigenous institutions in cities. What remains hidden in plain sight is their societal function as a social and political apparatus through which much of the social processes of Indigenous resurgence and community development in cities occurred. The struggle for self-determination in settler cities plays out through First Nations people's efforts to sustain their own institutions and resurgence, but also rights and recognition in cities. This book will be of interest to Indigenous studies scholars, urban sociologists, urban political scientists, urban studies scholars, and development studies scholars interested in urban issues and community building and development.
This paper is an account of a research project being undertaken for an Australian Learning and Te... more This paper is an account of a research project being undertaken for an Australian Learning and Teaching Council grant to develop Indigenous On-Line Cultural Teaching & Sharing. The project is built on an existing face-to-face interactive presentation based on the theme of Australian Aboriginal Kinship systems, which has been designed for teaching university and school students and their teachers and describes the process used to develop web services that aim to provide more interactive and exploratory learning environments.
The Neoliberal State, Recognition and Indigenous Rights
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Papers by Deirdre Howard-Wagner