Brian Ross Roberts

Overcoming Disadvantage (eBook, ePUB)

Past Lessons for Indigenous Futures
Redaktion: Blythe, Erica Louise

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This extensive compilation with comprehensive index represents two decades of personal research on Indigenous culture and spirituality. It analyses group identity and seeks to highlight the fundamental building blocks or 'essence' of Aboriginal well-being. The author extracts the critical issues faced by Indigenous communities and relates these to mainstream behavioural norms by drawing on the writings of Pearson, Sutton, Langton, Johns and many others, as well as comparing the values of globally dominant theologies with Aboriginal customs and values. In the contemporary era of political correctness, the ground-breaking marshalling of the author's evidence may be provocative, but this re-focussed insight may offer a clearer map of new worldviews. The author deplores the historic injustices that dispossessed Australia's first people but warns against the self-defeatism of modern martyrism. The author's tough thinking on tribalism, the perpetuation of inappropriate cultural values and starry-eyed idealism on separatism may challenge the traditional purists. Similarly, this honest incisive debate on norms will expose bad behaviour for what it is. Once Need and not Race is accepted as the basis for individual support, pride can return to Indigenous citizens: 'No progress will be made with National Indigenous Policy before objectives and principles are agreed to and laid down.'

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, D ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brian Ross Roberts
• Seitenzahl: 428
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780995382473
• Artikelnr.: 55672842

Autorenporträt

Professor Emeritus Brian Roberts has lived half his life in South Africa and half in Australia. An agricultural ecologist by profession, he has a passion for sustainable land use while his highly developed social conscience has led to decades of research into tribal peoples rights and responsibilities. Recognised as 'The Father of Landcare' he was awarded the Order of Australia in 1998, having earlier won the South African Community Service Medal for his work in rural soil conservation. He was the founding president of the Soil and Water Conservation Association of Australia, Organising Chairman of the Ninth International Rangeland Congress and has held professorships at three universities. Prof. Roberts chaired the Lower Balonne Advisory Committee on water sharing, the Queensland Rural Fires Council, the Queensland Freshwater MAC and the Nathan Dam Community Committee on Dawson River Water Supplies. As a senior member of the Cape York Peninsula Land Use Strategy and convenor of CSIRO's Water Quality Joint Venture team in North Queensland as Adjunct in Environmental Studies at James Cook University, he contributed to mainstream and Indigenous community conservation projects. He was a member of the National Soil Conservation Advisory Committee and The Queensland Sheep and Wool Research Committee. Much of his recent writing has been published in Quadrant Online. He is the author of 13 books, many book chapters and numerous journal articles since 1956. As a member of ANU's Fundamental Questions program, he produced the seminal paper 'Land Ethics: A necessary addition to Australian Values' (1984).