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Indigenist Critical Realism

Indigenist Critical Realism: Human Rights and First Australians well-being consists of a defence of what is popularly known as the Human Rights Agenda in Indigenous Affairs in Australia. It begins with a consideration of the non-well-being of Indigenous Australians, then unfolding a personal narrative of the author Dr Gracelyn Smallwoods family. This narrative is designed not only to position the author in the book but also in its typicality to represent what has happened to so many Indigenous families in Australia.

The book then moves to a critical engagement with dominant intellectual positions such as those advanced by commentators such as Noel Pearson, Peter Sutton, Gary Johns and Keith Windschuttle. The author argues that intellectuals such as these have to a great extent colonised what passes for common sense in mainstream Australia. This common sense straddles the domains of history, health and education and Dr Smallwood has chosen to follow her adversaries into all of these areas.

This critique is anchored by a number of key philosophical concepts developed by the Critical Realist philosopher Roy Bhaskar. The book advances and analyses a number of case studies some well-known, even notorious such as the Hindmarsh Island Affair (South Australia) and the Northern Territory Intervention; others like that of the authors late nephew Lyji Vaggs (Qld) and Aboriginal Elder May Dunne (Qld) much less so.

Representing one of the first attempts to engage at a critical and intellectual level in this debate by an Indigenous activist, this book is essential reading for students and scholars interested in Critical Realism and colonialism.

Since 1968 Dr Gracelyn Smallwood continues to be an outspoken advocate for the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Gracelyn was the first Indigenous Australian to receive a Masters of Science-Public Health (1986) and the first Indigenous PhD graduate from the Division of Tropical Health and Medicine (2011) at James Cook University. She is an Adjunct Professor at James Cook University, Queensland, Australia.

Dr Smallwood holds a number of awards including: the NAIDOC (National Aboriginal and Islander Observance Committee) Person of the Year Award (2014) and appointed a member of the Queensland Mental Health and Drug Advisory Council; the James Cook University Outstanding Alumni Award (2014); the United Nations Association of Australia Queensland Community Award-Individual (2013) in recognition of her service to Public Health, in particular to HIV-AIDS, contribution to Australian Universities and consultation to the World Health Organisation; and she received the Deadly Award for Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in Indigenous Health (2007) and was awarded an Order of Australia Medal (AM) in 1992 for her work in public health.

Ontological explorations

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From One Empire to the Next
Radha DSouza

Science for Humanism
The recovery of human agency
Charles R. Varela

Philosophical Problems of Sustainability
Taking sustainability forward with a critical realist approach
Jenneth Parker

Dialectic and Difference
Dialectical critical realism and the grounds of justice
Alan Norrie

Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change
Transforming knowledge and practice for our global future
Edited by Roy Bhaskar, Cheryl Frank, Karl Georg Hyer, Petter Naess and Jenneth Parker

Conversations about Reflexivity
Edited by Margaret S. Archer

Relational Sociology
A new paradigm for the social sciences
Pierpaolo Donati

Sociological Realism
Edited by Andrea M. Maccarini, Emmanuele Morandi and Riccardo Prandini

The Economics of Science: A Critical Realist Overview
Volume 1: Illustrations and philosophical preliminaries
David Tyfield

The Economics of Science: A Critical Realist Overview
Volume 2: Towards a synthesis of political economy and science and technology studies
David Tyfield

Ontology Revisited
Metaphysics in social and political philosophy
Ruth Groff

Childhoods, Real and Imagined
Volume 1: an introduction to critical realism and childhood studies
Priscilla Alderson

Naturalizing Critical Realist Social Ontology
Tuukka Kaidesoja

Whats Critical about Critical Realism?
Essays in reconstructive social theory
Frederic Vandenberghe

Integrating Knowledge through Interdisciplinary Research
Problems of theory and practice
Dominic Holland

Post-Secularism, Realism and Utopia
Transcendence and immanence from Hegel to Bloch
Jolyon Agar

Critical Realism, Somalia and the Diaspora Community
Abdullahi Haji-Abdi

Reality and Self Realisation
Bhaskars metaphilosophical journey toward non-dual emancipation
MinGyu Seo

The Contradictions of Love
Towards a feminist-realist ontology of sociosexuality
Lena Gunnarsson

Capitalism, Citizenship and the Arts of Thinking
A Marxian-Aristotelian linguistic account
Kathryn Dean

Understanding Mental Health
A critical realist exploration
David Pilgrim

Indigenist Critical Realism
Human Rights and First Australians well-being
Gracelyn Smallwood

The Denial of Nature
Environmental philosophy in the era of global capitalism
Arne Johan Vetlesen

Gubulla Munda (Carpet snake) is the totem for the Juru Clan of the Birri Gubba Nation. Gubulla Munda holds sacred, cultural and spiritual significance to the traditional owners. This monument commemorates the resting place of remains for a number of members of the Birri Gubba Clan and stands in memory of the people who occupied this land before the Europeans came.

Scientific evidence suggests that Aboriginal people have lived in this country for over 40,000 years. The memorial was erected by their living descendants, with the support of the Burdekin Shire Council and the Archaeology Branch of the Department of Community Services, Queensland.

Gubulla Munda Dreaming comes from higher powers of Mother Earth. Gubulla Munda travelled through the waters, up to the dry land and rested, the perspiration of Gubulla Munda formed the hills, mountains, rivers and streams. Gubulla Munda travelled back down to the water and rested. As Gubulla Munda moved through the waters, the droppings formed the islands. This is the Juru Clans sacred story of the Gubulla Munda Dreaming (source: http://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/culture/indigenous/display/90447-birriguba-resting-place. Used with permission of the Gudjuda Reference Group Aboriginal Corporation).

Indigenist Critical Realism

Human Rights and First Australians well-being

Gracelyn Smallwood

First published 2015
by Routledge
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2015 Gracelyn Smallwood

The right of Gracelyn Smallwood to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988.

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