Changing the acculturation conversation: indigenous cultural reclamation in Australiaand Aotearoa/New Zealand

Dudgeon, Patricia; Darlaston-Jones, Dawn; Nikora, Linda Waimarie; Waitoki, Waikaremoana; Pe-Pua, Rogelia; Tran, Le Nhat; Rouhani, Lobna

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“…This research was grounded in an Aboriginal centred research approach using the three principles of (1) enhancement, empowerment and enablement of people; (2) integration and interconnectedness; and (3) control of research, autonomy and self-determination conceptualised by Durie in a Māori context [39]. With a similar history of colonisation and current struggle for social justice, cultural reclamation and the development of Indigenous knowledges, these research principles are equally applicable in an Australian Aboriginal context [40]. The principles were used to inform research processes and practice throughout the research.…”

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Exploring Aboriginal aged care residents’ cultural and spiritual needs in South Australia

Sivertsen

Harrington

Hamiduzzaman

2019

BMC Health Serv Res

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Background Attention to culture and its impact on health care can improve the quality of care given, add to our understanding of health care among culturally diverse populations, and encourage a more holistic approach to health care within general care. Connection to culture is important to Aboriginal peoples, and integrating Aboriginal culture into general care in residential aged care facilities may contribute to improving care delivery and outcomes for residents. The literature to date revealed a lack of understanding of the capacity of residential aged care and the health practices of carers in relation to providing cultural care for Aboriginal people. This study aimed to explore how cultural care needs are maintained for Aboriginal residents from their own and their carers’ perspectives. Methods Applying an Aboriginal centered research method, an Interpretive Descriptive Approach was used as a theoretical framework to explore data in this study. Semi structured audio-recorded interviews were conducted. An additional file provides a complete description of the interview questions used as a guide for the study [see Additional file 1 ]. Three Residential Aged Care Centres, in South Australia were used i.e., two rural from centres and one urban metropolitan centre. Seven Aboriginal residents and 19 carers participated in interviews. Data was transcribed and an interpretive analysis was employed to code the transcribed data for themes and sub-themes. The study was guided by an Aboriginal community advisory group with an aim to work under the principle of reciprocity; giving back to the communities, participants and those where the research results may have been relevant. Results Three themes emerged from the views of the residents and carers: (i) lack of resources and funding; (ii) care practice; and (iii) marginalisation of Aboriginal culture within aged care facilities. Conclusion The findings suggest that carers and residents believe cultural inclusion in general care practices may enrich Aboriginal residents’ daily life, health and well-being in residential aged care facilities. This study may provide carers, aged care centre managers and policy makers with information on the need of resources, funding, organised care plan and management, and cultural competency of carers to be considered to improve Aboriginal aged care protocols for integrating cultural care into practice. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12913-019-4322-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Exploring Aboriginal aged care residents’ cultural and spiritual needs in South Australia

Sivertsen

Harrington

Hamiduzzaman

2019

BMC Health Serv Res

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“…The M aori language was banned in many schools, and M aori cultural perspectives were excluded from curricula (Durie, 1998). Forced assimilation fostered an attitude of indigenous inferiority, which was internalised by some M aori people (Dudgeon et al, 2016;Haenga-Collins & Gibbs, 2015;Webber, 2012). For many, M aori culture was pushed to the background, and cultural identity suffered as a result.…”

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Modelling cultural embeddedness for colonised indigenous minorities: The implicit and explicit pathways to culturally valued behaviours

Fox

Ward

Neha

et al. 2020

Culture & Psychology

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Colonised indigenous minorities around the world are constantly navigating the complex space between their heritage culture and mainstream society. In this paper, we explore how embeddedness in heritage cultural values, beliefs, and practises influence the behaviours of indigenous minorities, particularly during intercultural contact with the post-colonial majority where values, beliefs, and practises often clash. To support our theorising, we introduce the concept of cultural embeddedness, relating to enculturation in one’s heritage cultural values, beliefs, and practises. We then introduce the Dual-Pathways Model of Embeddedness to Culturally Valued Behaviours for Indigenous Minorities (DPM), which seeks to outline the two separate but interrelated pathways through which cultural embeddedness leads to culturally valued behaviours. The dual pathways include an implicit pathway, which begins with cultural values, and an explicit pathway, which begins with cultural practises. We use an indigenous approach, drawing on the first author’s experiences as an indigenous Māori in New Zealand to illustrate the concepts of the DPM. The model attempts to integrate the various ways in which cultural identity has been defined by indigenous authors into a single theory. We invite future qualitative and quantitative research, especially by indigenous scholars, to challenge and/or validate the DPM.

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“…Indigenous Australians and Māori, have survived several waves of institutionalised racism (Dudgeon et al 2016b). The Protectionists era began in the late 1800s: The colonising government, under instruction from the British Empire, sought to preserve from extinction a people viewed as primitive and without culture.…”

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Indigenous Psychology in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Australia

Waitoki

Dudgeon

Nikora

2018

Global Psychologies

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Changing the acculturation conversation: indigenous cultural reclamation in Australiaand Aotearoa/New Zealand

Cited by 12 publications

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Exploring Aboriginal aged care residents’ cultural and spiritual needs in South Australia

Exploring Aboriginal aged care residents’ cultural and spiritual needs in South Australia

Modelling cultural embeddedness for colonised indigenous minorities: The implicit and explicit pathways to culturally valued behaviours

Indigenous Psychology in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Australia

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