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Theorising survival: Indigenous women and social and emotional wellbeing

by Baker J

Abstract

This book uses a theoretical model to explore the position of Indigenous Australians in relation to health science research. It provides a contemporary understanding of Indigenous affairs, particularly in regards to counselling, community development, and policy. The book is comprised of eight chapters, covering the following topic areas:

• Not another native informant
• Reconstructing gender and 'race' relations after the frontier
• Consciousness, abjection and the colonised subject
• Pain as a catalyst for change, for working for change
• 'Changing the terms of the conversation' and moving from "a survival mentality to a living mentality"
• Borderlands: what is happening there?
• Land and spirit: old ways of being
• Conclusion: abjection denies a future of shared joys.

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