scholarly journals Strategies for including communication of non-Western and indigenous knowledges in science communication histories

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (02) ◽  
pp. A02
Author(s):  
Lindy Orthia
Keyword(s):  
Science Communication ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Indigenous Australian ◽  
Indigenous Knowledges ◽  
Communication History ◽  
Geological Event

How a discipline's history is written shapes its identity. Accordingly, science communicators opposed to cultural exclusion may seek cross-cultural conceptualizations of science communication's past, beyond familiar narratives centred on the recent West. Here I make a case for thinking about science communication history in these broader geotemporal terms. I discuss works by historians and knowledge keepers from the Indigenous Australian Yorta Yorta Nation who describe a geological event their ancestors witnessed 30,000 ybp and communicated about over generations to the present. This is likely one of the oldest examples of science communication, warranting a prominent place in science communication histories.

Reclaiming Australia: Indigenous Hip-Hop group A.B. Original’s use of Twitter

2018 ◽  
Vol 169 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzi Hutchings ◽  
Dianne Rodger
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Indigenous Australian ◽  
Indigenous Knowledges ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Twitter Activity

This article explores how Indigenous-Australian Hip-Hop group A.B. Original use Twitter to promote their music and more broadly, as a conduit for political expression, protest and the celebration of Indigenous identities. We use Indigenous knowledges and Indigenous standpoint theories to extend on the current literature that examines the use of social media by Indigenous peoples. In decolonising research, these theoretical perspectives position the Indigenous participant at the centre of research practice where knowledge is created. Indigenous knowledges therefore become the paradigm through which social interaction is understood and described. Our thematic analysis of A.B. Original’s public Twitter activity from November 2016 to January 2017 demonstrates that the combination of Hip-Hop and social media are powerful forces utilised by young Indigenous people in Australia to discuss issues impacting their everyday lives and to make meaningful statements on contemporary Aboriginality and sovereignty.

scholarly journals Developing Indigenous Australian cultural competence: A model for implementing Indigenous content into curricula

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Flavell ◽  
Rosalie Thackrah ◽  
Julie Hoffman
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Cultural Competency ◽  
Feedback Mechanism ◽  
Field Resistance ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Indigenous Australian ◽  
School Of Nursing ◽  
Cross Cultural Education ◽  
Global Citizenry ◽  
Cultural Skills

Cross-cultural understanding has been identified as an important graduate capability crucial for global citizenry, and most universities now include cultural skills or competence within their generic graduate capabilities. However, cross-cultural education and pedagogy are specialised areas and few academics are equipped, or have the confidence, to teach in this area. As a consequence, cross-cultural graduate capabilities are rarely effectively measured or assured. Despite these challenges, the Australian higher education sector is increasingly being called upon to Indigenise its curriculum and develop graduates with Indigenous cultural competence (Australian Universities Guiding Principles for Developing Indigenous Cultural Competency, 2011). This paper describes the approach used to introduce a unit into Curtin University's School of Nursing and Midwifery, in partnership with Curtin's Centre for Aboriginal Studies, with the aim of developing graduate Indigenous Australian cultural competence. Pedagogical approaches are discussed and an analysis of quantitative and qualitative data from the University's online student feedback mechanism provided. Results show that although the unit has provided the majority of students with a strong start on their journey to developing Indigenous cultural competence a single course is not sufficient and, consistent with the literature in the field, resistance to compulsory Indigenous content is evident. The paper considers some of the complexities of teaching Indigenous Australian content within a contemporary Australian university. In doing so, the paper explores what Indigenous cultural competency might be and how it might be achieved providing a useful model with application to other disciplines.

scholarly journals Geoengineering and the Science Communication Environment: A Cross-Cultural Experiment

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan M. Kahan ◽  
Hank C. Jenkins-Smith ◽  
Tor Tarantola ◽  
Carol L Silva ◽  
Donald Braman
Keyword(s):  
Science Communication ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Communication Environment

scholarly journals The Importance of Being Useless: A Cross-Cultural Contribution to the New Materialisms from Zhuangzi

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 21-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothy HB Kwek
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Alternative Conceptions ◽  
The Political ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Indigenous Knowledges ◽  
New Materialisms ◽  
Material Turn

The recent ‘material turn’ focuses on materiality in two distinctive ways: one, by including nonhuman agencies, another, by mining indigenous knowledges for alternative conceptions of agency and human–thing relations. A troubling gap persists between the two endeavours. The gap insinuates an us–them dichotomy and, more importantly, curtails communication between radically different visions of thingly agency – thereby impeding the political drive of these conceptual enterprises. This article is an essay in cross-cultural transposition. Through a close reading of a story of a useless tree in an ancient proto-Daoist text, Zhuangzi (莊子), the author shows how its fabulist and oneiric form illuminates a distinctive perspective on uselessness. Conversely, the trope of uselessness lets us begin from what she calls a ‘situated affectivity’ amidst more-than-human materialities. The article concludes with a brief comparison of three modalities of uselessness from different ‘cosmologies’ of thought – a foretaste of the potentials of cross-cosmological endeavours.

scholarly journals Raising Understanding of Indigenous Australian Culture through Creative Production in Interior Architecture

IDEA JOURNAL ◽  
1969 ◽  
pp. 57-69
Author(s):  
Marina Lommerse
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Student Outcomes ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Specific Design ◽  
Indigenous Australian ◽  
Interior Architecture ◽  
Cultural Design ◽  
Research Initiatives

The search of displaced peoples for ways to connect with their culture underlines the need to explore the role of Interior Architecture in cultural rebuilding and communication. This paper demonstrates a way of applying cross-cultural design processes to the built environment within a tertiary educational context. It will be of interest to Interior Design educators and researchers involved in teaching processes concerned with the conjunction of culture and meaning. The paper illustrates some of the processes currently being explored to engage students in culturally specific design enquiry and production. Examples of student outcomes are presented, and the broader impact of the initiatives on research and writing is discussed. These teaching/research initiatives are in a very early stage, there is much to learn, and there are very exciting possibilities. This paper is intended to present a tentative position for critique and feed back.

scholarly journals The need to transform Science Communication from being multi-cultural via cross-cultural to intercultural

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 11-19
Author(s):  
Simon Schneider ◽  
Liv Heinecke
Keyword(s):  
Earth Sciences ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Community Level ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Societal Relevance ◽  
The Individual

Abstract. When dealing with issues that are of high societal relevance, Earth sciences still face a lack of acceptance, which is partly rooted in insufficient communication strategies on the individual and local community level. To increase the efficiency of communication routines, science has to transform its outreach concepts to become more aware of individual needs and demands. The “encoding/decoding” concept as well as critical intercultural communication studies can offer pivotal approaches for this transformation.

The PCL: YV and re-offending across ethnic groups

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephane M. Shepherd ◽  
Susanne Strand
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Prison Population ◽  
Young Male ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Indigenous Australians ◽  
Violence Risk ◽  
Indigenous Australian ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Psychopathy Checklist ◽  
Australian Sample

Purpose – The psychopathy checklist: youth version (PCL: YV) checklist is an assessment of youth psychopathic traits and is regularly validated by way of its associations with re-offending and violence. Yet existing research has been conducted with predominantly white Caucasian cohorts and extant evidence suggests that associations with recidivism are stronger in samples with greater proportions of white offenders. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – This study investigated the cross-cultural validity of the PCL: YV for an ethnically diverse Australian sample of 175 young male offenders in custody. Participants were assessed in custody with the PCL: YV and offending data were collected post-release for up to 18 months. Findings – PCL: YV total and domain scores were comparable across ethnicity; however the instrument demonstrated stronger relationships with recidivism for Australian participants with an English speaking background compared to Indigenous and culturally and linguistically diverse participants. Practical implications – The authors advocate the cautionary employment of the PCL: YV as a violence risk prediction instrument with minority young offenders regionally, pending further evidence. Originality/value – This study addresses the capacity of the PCL: YV to predict violence across different ethnic groups. Cross-cultural youth psychopathy research is currently inadequate and existing studies suggest that the PCL: YV is a weaker predictor of violence in culturally diverse samples. This investigation provides much needed information on the capacity of the PCL: YV to extend to different ethnic groups who are represented Australia’s youth prison population. This is the first study of its kind regionally, and more importantly is the first PCL: YV study with an Indigenous Australian comparison group. This is particularly important given that Indigenous Australians are heavily overrepresented in Australia’s criminal justice system and require appropriate risk assessment measures to ensure they are not misclassified. Research such as this is now of particular interest given the recent judicial decision made in Ewert vs Canada.

scholarly journals Challenges of cross-cultural communication in production of a collaborative exhibition: Wai ora, Mauri ora

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (04) ◽  
pp. C05 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Longnecker ◽  
Craig Scott
Keyword(s):  
Science Communication ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Student Work ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Museum Professionals ◽  
Museum Exhibition

This case study of the development of a cross-cultural museum exhibition illustrates value and difficulties of cross-cultural collaboration. University researchers worked with a class of postgraduate science communication students and designers from the Otago Museum to produce a museum exhibition. ‘Wai ora, Mauri ora’ (‘Healthy environments, Healthy people’) provided visibility and public access to information about Māori work. The exhibition assignment provided an authentic assessment of student work, with a professional output. Working on the exhibition involved cross-cultural communication between Māori and pakehā (non-Māori) and between students and museum professionals. This provided a rich learning experience that took many of the players outside of their comfort zone.

The Crying Post Project: A Multi-Part, Multi-Media Artwork to Memorialize Global Sites of Pain

Leonardo ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 381-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Summers
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Response ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Indigenous Australian ◽  
Environmental Destruction ◽  
Multi Media ◽  
Interactive 3D ◽  
Solar Powered ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Mapping Theory ◽  
3D Web

The author describes The Crying Post Project, an artwork consisting primarily of wood staffs with solar-powered “cry generators” placed at different sites throughout the globe, at locations of environmental and/or social damage. Its two other components include an interactive 3D web site, which has been created as an alternative, data-rich venue for the project, and a series of digitally created photographic prints designed to capture the artist's emotional response to the sites. The artist also discusses how this artwork has been inspired by his research on the cross-cultural symbolism of trees, the indigenous Australian worldview, mapping theory and the relationship between language extinction and environmental destruction.

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