1st Edition

Indigenous Research into Mainstream Australian Culture Shifting the Lens

By Lorraine Muller Copyright 2024
206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

Informed by original ground-breaking research, this book “shifts the lens” of study, identifying how Indigenous Australian values and principles have influenced and contributed to an evolving non-Indigenous mainstream Australian culture. Based on the Indigenous principle of respect, Muller presents a solid research framework to break down the barriers of social differences in a culturally safe... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Culture and Identity: Who are ‘We and Us’?

3. Opportunities at the Cultural Interface [Methodology]

4. Decolonisation, a Framework for Research

5. Mainstream Yarning

6. Meaning of Common Language: Respect the Law - Respect Is Law

7. Intercultural Decolonisation in Practice

8. Knowledge Gained

9. Healing and Hope

10. Australian Culture: Under Construction

Biography

Lorraine Muller is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the College Medicine and Dentistry at James Cook University, Australia. She is Indigenous Australian and her areas of expertise are Indigenous Australian knowledges and practices, and non-Indigenous mainstream Australian culture having extensively studied the values and principles that construct both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian cultural identities.