Mia Mia Aboriginal Community Development
Fostering Cultural Security

Written from an Aboriginal perspective, Mia Mia Aboriginal Community Development is a valuable resource that focuses on cultural security.

Cheryl Kickett-Tucker (Edited by), Dawn Bessarab (Associate editor), Juli Coffin (Associate editor), Michael Wright (Associate editor)

9781107414471, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 24 October 2016

320 pages, 5 b/w illus. 1 colour illus.
24.6 x 17.5 x 1.3 cm, 0.47 kg

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, post-modernism, globalisation and digital technology. As well as comprehensive analysis of community development in Aboriginal communities, it presents practical strategies and tools for improvement. Each chapter includes practical case studies and review exercises, encouraging active learning and reflection. A valuable resource for tertiary education students, this book features contributions from some of Australia's most eminent Aboriginal scholars, Elders and Aboriginal community members alongside contributions from community development practitioners.

1. Anggaba jina nimoonggoon: whose knowledge is that? Aboriginal perspectives of community development Dawn Bessarab and Simon Forrest
2. Aboriginal identity, world views, research and the story of the Burra'gorang Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews, Aunty Frances Bodkin, Uncle Gavin Andrews and Uncle Ross Evans
3. The social justice foundation of Aboriginal community development Gracelyn Smallwood
4. Dimensions of Aboriginal community development Janet Mooney, Lynette Riley and Fabri Blacklock
5. Decolonising Australian community development tools Juli Coffin and Charmaine Green
6. Ways in which postmodernism can inform Aboriginal community development Loretta Kelly, Tony Kickett and Dawn Bessarab
7. A healing foundation for Aboriginal community development Judy Atkinson and Caroline (Carlie) Atkinson
8. Is community development equity or justice? Bindi Bennett and Sue Green
9. Hear our voices: community development and working with Indigenous people experiencing trauma Pat Dudgeon
10. Djinangingy kaartdijin: seeing and understanding our ways of working Michael Wright and Cheryl Kickett-Tucker
11. Overcoming racism as a barrier to community development Yin Paradies
12. Aboriginal community development and digital inclusion: hope, haves and have-nots Lester-Irabinna Rigney
13. Ngalang moort: family as the building block of community development Cheryl Kickett-Tucker and Josey Hansen
14. Benang yeyi: tomorrow today for Aboriginal community development Cheryl Kickett-Tucker, Karen Ugle, Natasha Moore, Adrian Ugle and Janetia Knapp.

Subject Areas: Sociology & anthropology [JH], Society & culture: general [JF], Society & social sciences [J]