Exploring urban identities and histories
Christine Hansen and Kathleen Butler (eds)
Exploring urban identities and histories was developed from papers presented at the 2009 AIATSIS National Indigenous Studies Conference, where presenters considered a range of questions facing Indigenous people living in urban and semi-urban / regional areas of Australia.
While many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have witnessed cities and towns grow up around them through the course of generations, many have migrated to urban areas. This book considers urban identity, the history of urbanisation, demographic mobility and diverse community experiences.
Further Reading
"Exploring urban identities and histories" from books and monographs.
Gardens of discontent: health and horticulture in remote Aboriginal Australia
Ernest Hunter, Leigh-ann Onnis and John Pritchard
AIATSIS Research Discussion Paper no. 34
Preventable chronic diseases are largely responsible for the high rates of death and illness among Indigenous Australians, and poor nutrition, particularly in early life, is a major contributor to those chronic diseases. One approach to the problem which has an appealing logic is to improve nutrition in remote settings through local cultivation of fruit and vegetables. Many projects have begun; however, despite a history of horticulture in remote mission and pastoral settlements across northern Aboriginal Australia, sustained and substantial improvement has been elusive. This paper focuses on Cape York in remote northern Australia, and the community of Lockhart River in particular, to outline the historical and contemporary factors that have undermined, and continue to undermine, horticulture’s contribution to improving Aboriginal health.
Further Reading
"Gardens of discontent: health and horticulture in remote Aboriginal Australia" from research discussion papers.
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