scholarly journals Social enterprise in a remote Indigenous community – Barunga Festival in Australia's Northern Territory

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Prescott C. Ensign
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Dynamic Environment ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Aboriginal Community ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
Development Change ◽  
Socio Economic Impact ◽  
Remote Indigenous Community

Abstract In 2020, the Barunga Festival would have celebrated its 35th anniversary. In mid-June of 2021, as many as 4,000 individuals were expected to descend on an aboriginal community of 300 residents located 400 km south of Darwin. This case describes the challenge to the Festival's promoters as they seek to sustain peak socio-economic impact in their role as community development change agents in a diverse and dynamic environment. The reader is tasked with clarifying goals, deciding what is at stake, and setting a course of action to realize those objectives.

scholarly journals Questioning Participatory Community Development in the Third World

1992 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Pinel
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
International Development ◽  
Cultural Sensitivity ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Participatory Development ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Development Change ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Cultural Baggage

This paper links the common objectives of "participatory development" and "community development" into a concept named "participatory community development" (PCD). This approach may increase the cultural sensitivity of development projects, and is closely linked with the parallel methodology of participatory action research. In its popular usage, however, little is said of the attendant Western cultural baggage of PCD. The paper proposes an increased awareness of development change agents, and changes in the international development decision-making structure at the diagnosis level.

Narratives and processes – Developing a responsive parent–child program to empower local facilitators in a remote Aboriginal community

2021 ◽  
pp. 147332502199241
Author(s):  
Carolin Stock ◽  
Maggie Kerinaiua Punguatji ◽  
Carmen Cubillo ◽  
Gary Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Play Therapy ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Parenting Program ◽  
Research Translation ◽  
Aboriginal Communities ◽  
Aboriginal Community ◽  
Parenting Support ◽  
Pilot Implementation ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Parent Child

This article presents the results of a retrospective study that critically examines the development of a responsive parent–child program from conceptualisation to pilot implementation. The development of the Play to Connect program was a continuation of research translation work of the Let’s Start parenting program which was delivered in remote Aboriginal communities across the Northern Territory, Australia from 2005–2016. The impetus for the Play to Connect program came from the community need for parenting support that could be delivered by local Aboriginal workers living in the community. The aim was to bring research and community together through the co-creation of contextually relevant knowledge directly useful for local Aboriginal facilitators. Embedded in a dynamic cycle of planning, delivery, observation and reflection, the team of local Aboriginal staff and visiting practitioners designed and piloted an innovative, user-friendly and adaptable parent–child program which was underpinned by the evaluation findings of an existing program, drawing on the framework of play therapy. The 2.5 year long process of development brought about action and change for the local Aboriginal staff. They valued the co-creation of the program and resources and reported increased knowledge of child development and confidence to deliver family support in their community. This study shows that the development of Play to Connect was more than “tailoring” a parenting program – it was a way of creating sustainable support around a program to increase the chances of continuity of implementation and successful community engagement and development.

‘We're Hands-On People’: Healing Diabetes in the Absence of Traditional Healers in an Aboriginal Community in Northern Territory, Australia.

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashleigh Elizabeth Mitchell ◽  
Trisia Farrelly ◽  
Robyn Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Healers ◽  
Holistic Health ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Holistic Healing ◽  
Self Healing ◽  
Aboriginal Community ◽  
Aboriginal Populations ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Biomedical Treatment

This study of a remote Aboriginal community in Australia’s Northern Territory in 2014 sought to understand diabetes from a local Aboriginal perspective. Participants drew on a variety of holistic healing methods in the absence of an individual or individuals identified as holding a healing role in the community. The study offers an alternative to the common assumption that all communities can identify specific individuals as Aboriginal healers who are central to maintaining Aboriginal beliefs and wellbeing who contribute to holistic health (Clarke 2008; Maher 1999; McDonald 2006; Seathre 2013; Williams 2011). This research found the seven adult Aboriginal diabetes patients participating in the longitudinal ethnographic study actively engaged in self-healing strategies. Moreover, diabetes clinicians could combine local remedies and biomedical treatment to heal diabetes within the clinic, as well as actively engaging the patient in their own treatment, effective to reduce the symptoms and prevalence of diabetes in Aboriginal populations.

Community-Based Strategies in Aboriginal Criminal Justice: The Northern Territory Experience

1995 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Tyler
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Aboriginal Community ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Correctional Services ◽  
The Past ◽  
Community Justice

Recent attempts to involve the remote and small town communities of Northern Australia in their own policing and correctional services have often been held up as a model for developing Aboriginal criminal justice policies. Such a proposal raises important questions as to both the construction of the post-colonial ‘community’ in remote and settled Australia and the sociological principles by which these criminal justice schemes (eg night patrols, community wardens, community corrections) have been constituted. The paper explores the constructions of the Aboriginal community over the past two decades (ethnographic, politico-administrative and postmodernist) as a background to the development and implementation of community-based criminal justice schemes in the Northern Territory. A typology of post-colonial criminal justice strategies is developed which identifies four ‘ideal types’ in which the initiatives may be positioned. These are the mediative (community wardens, night patrols), the educative (community justice programs), the neo-colonialist (new forms of imposed European laws and policing) and the incorporative (pervasive and totalising forms of control). The possibility of transposing these Northern Territory schemes to other Aboriginal situations is then critically evaluated in the light of differing socio-political constructions of ‘community’.

PUSH RECOVERY THROUGH WALKING PHASE MODIFICATION FOR BIPEDAL LOCOMOTION

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (03) ◽  
pp. 1350022 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALBERTUS HENDRAWAN ADIWAHONO ◽  
CHEE-MENG CHEW ◽  
BINGBING LIU
Keyword(s):  
Humanoid Robot ◽  
Dynamic Environment ◽  
Bipedal Locomotion ◽  
Bipedal Robot ◽  
Dynamic Simulations ◽  
Phase Modification ◽  
Push Recovery ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
Recovery Scheme

Push recovery is an important capability for a biped to safely maneuver in a real dynamic environment. In this paper, a generalized push recovery scheme to handle pushes from any direction that may occur at any walking phase is developed. Using the concept of walking phase modification, a series of systematic push recovery scheme that takes into account the severity of the push is presented. The result is that a bipedal robot could adapt to pushes according to the magnitude of disturbance and determine the best course of action. A number of push recovery experiments with different walking phases and push directions have been carried out using a 12-DOF humanoid robot model in dynamic simulations. The versatility and potential of the overall scheme is also demonstrated with the bipedal robot balancing on an accelerating cart.

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