Indigenous Australian youth futures : living the social determinants of health / edited by Kate Senior ; Richard Chenhall and Victoria Burbank.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burbank, Victoria, Editor.

Contributor:

Senior, Kate, editor.

Chenhall, Richard, editor.

Burbank, Victoria, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Youth, Aboriginal Australian--Health and hygiene--Northern Territory.

Youth, Aboriginal Australian.

Youth, Aboriginal Australian--Social conditions--Northern Territory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 219 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Indigenous Australian Youth Futures

Place of Publication:

Canberra ANU Press 2021

Acton, ACT : ANU Press, 2021.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Adolescents are at a critical life stage where they will soon be able to contribute to the wellbeing of humankind, or do it great harm. Consequently, it is vital that the challenges and possibilities of adolescence be well understood and addressed.

Contents:

1. Living the Social Determinants of Health: My Story / Angelina Joshua

2. Defiance in the Detail: Young Women’s Embodied Future Selves / Richard Chenhall, Kate Senior, Trudy Hall, Bronwyn Turner and Daphne Daniels

3. ‘They Don’t Dance Corroboree Any More’: Youth Relations to Authority, Leadership and Civic Responsibility in a Remote Aboriginal Community / Kate Senior, Richard Chenhall and Daphne Daniels

4. Food Practices of Young People in a Remote Aboriginal Community / Danielle Aquino

5. Bush Medicine Knowledge and Use among Young Kriol Speakers in Ngukurr / Greg Dickson

6. ‘They Do Think about Health’: Young Indigenous Women’s Ideas about Health and Their Interaction with the Health System / Mascha Friderichs

7. Growing Up Fast in Two Remote Aboriginal Communities / Sue McMullen

8. The Aboriginal Spring? Youth, Mobile Phones and Social Media in a Remote Aboriginal Community / Kishan Kariippanon

9. Juvenile (In)Justice in Darwin: Young People’s Voices from the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre / Pippa Rudd, Kate Senior and Jared Sharp

10. Sawyer’s Story: Guidance and Control of Adolescents in a Remote Aboriginal Community / Victoria Burbank.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 cc https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

OCLC:

1266287794