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. In Australia, such understanding is urgently needed with respect to Aboriginal adolescents. Not only must they adjust to their changing bodies and minds, but they must negotiate these changes within a context usually characterised by racism and poverty. They must also do this within intercultural environments that include the disparate and sometimes incompatible beliefs and practices of their multicultural populations. The chapters in this collection address these challenges to Aboriginal adolescents in the Northern Territory and the intercultural contexts in which they take place. Their discussions include the adolescents' experiences with health and health care, education, and the criminal justice system. They also address their hopes, dreams, plans and politics, engagement with social media, food preferences and nutrition, engagement with language, family, and changing mores affecting sexual behaviour and marriage.
The book aims to provide readers with a greater understanding of the day-to-day lives of Aboriginal adolescents, and some of the adults who care for or neglect them. It seeks to provide readers with a better understanding of the circumstances, processes and factors that affect adolescent health, wellbeing and future prospects in their intercultural environments, and glimpse the multiplicity of these circumstances, processes and factors and the complexity of their interaction.
Edited by:
Victoria Burbank,
Richard Chenhall,
Kate Senior
Imprint: ANU Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 153mm,
ISBN: 9781760464448
ISBN 10: 1760464449
Publication Date: 08 July 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of Figures List of Tables Contributors Introduction: Aboriginal Youth in the Northern Territory: Disadvantage, Control and Hope – Kate Senior, Richard Chenhall and Victoria Burbank Living the Social Determinants of Health: My Story – Angelina Joshua Defiance in the Detail: Young Women's Embodied Future Selves – Richard Chenhall, Kate Senior, Trudy Hall, Bronwyn Turner and Daphne Daniels '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 Food Practices of Young People in a Remote Aboriginal Community – Danielle Aquino Bush Medicine Knowledge and Use among Young Kriol Speakers in Ngukurr – Greg Dickson ‘They Do Think about Health’: Young Indigenous Women’s Ideas about Health and Their Interaction with the Health System – Mascha Friderichs Growing Up Fast in Two Remote Aboriginal Communities – Sue McMullen The Aboriginal Spring? Youth, Mobile Phones and Social Media in a Remote Aboriginal Community – Kishan Kariippanon Juvenile (In)Justice in Darwin: Young People’s Voices from the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre – Pippa Rudd, Kate Senior and Jared Sharp Sawyer’s Story: Guidance and Control of Adolescents in a Remote Aboriginal Community – Victoria Burbank
