Truth-telling, film-making, and skill-building in a far northwest Australian community

澳大利亚西北部社区的讲真话、电影制作和技能培养

• 批准号: AH/X013111/1
• 负责人: Barry Godfrey
• 金额: $ 10.43万
• 依托单位: University of Liverpool
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX013111%2F1
• 关键词: Truth; telling; film; making; skill

Working with partners Roebourne High School, Ngaarda Media, Karratha Library and Red Earth Centre, we will use research findings developed in the 'Digital Panopticon' to support new approaches to building community resilience in a marginalised far northwestern Australian community. The proposed project will form a bridge between historical data and modern social problems to impact on and improve the lives of Indigenous Australians (particularly Ngarluma and Yindjibarndi Elders and youths) by working in partnership with a variety of cultural, media, community and educational bodies to significantly enhance their efforts to support children, adolescents and adults in challenging the most acute issues in their communities. In Australia, race, class, and the criminal justice system have sat together in a complicated and disastrous relationship for over two centuries. Indigenous people account for about a quarter of Australia's prison population, vastly disproportionate to their numbers in society. The imprisonment rate of Indigenous Australians is five times higher than that of Black South African men during Apartheid; and higher than African American rates in the US today. Our proposed project is set in Karrathashire (Western Australia) which has two urban centres: Roebourne (which has become notorious as one of Australia's most crime-plagued) has a resilient but vulnerable community where young people suffer multiple disadvantages. Two thirds of children have been sexually assaulted, and one third of adult men have been imprisoned. Many young people in custody previously visited their own fathers in custody. The town is constantly and almost wholly associated with crime, abuse, and the young people still suffer from association with a history and narrative not of their own making. Karratha is Australia's newest city, created by a mining-boom, which is unhelpfully characterized as a wealthy but uncultured brash newcomer which has little heritage or history. Our project aims to help local communities change this narrative by facilitating local people, particularly elders and school students, to challenge existing stereotypes about themselves and their communities, and to work with local and national media to disseminate positive narratives about Roebourne and Karratha. Together we will co-produce cultural and heritage material for long-term use which will engage and enthuse Indigenous and Non-Indigenous communities in the area to engage more fully with their past, particularly the continuities and discontinuities in Indigenous experiences of policing and punishment, building social cohesion across different communities. In providing real-world film-making skills and opportunities for local school students to boost local employment opportunities, we hope to decrease the likelihood of criminalization, and leave a lasting legacy for the people and the educational/cultural/heritage structures that support the people in far northwestern Australia.

我们将与合作伙伴Roebourne高中，Ngaarda媒体，卡拉塔图书馆和红土中心合作，利用在“数字全景监狱”中开发的研究成果来支持在澳大利亚西北部边缘化社区建立社区复原力的新方法。拟议的项目将在历史数据和现代社会问题之间架起一座桥梁，通过与各种文化、媒体、社区和教育机构合作，大大加强他们的努力，支持儿童、青少年和成年人挑战其社区中最尖锐的问题，从而影响和改善澳大利亚土著人（特别是Ngarluma和Yindjibarndi长老和青年）的生活。在澳大利亚，种族、阶级和刑事司法系统在两个多世纪以来一直处于一种复杂而灾难性的关系中。土著人约占澳大利亚监狱人口的四分之一，与他们在社会中的人数极不相称。澳大利亚原住民的监禁率是南非黑人的五倍，也高于今天美国的非洲裔美国人。我们建议的项目设置在Karrathashire（西澳大利亚州），其中有两个城市中心：Roebourne（已成为澳大利亚犯罪最猖獗的城市之一）有一个弹性但脆弱的社区，年轻人遭受多重不利因素。三分之二的儿童遭到性侵犯，三分之一的成年男子被监禁。许多被拘留的年轻人以前探望过自己被拘留的父亲。这个城镇经常和几乎完全与犯罪，虐待有关，年轻人仍然遭受着与不是他们自己创造的历史和叙述的联系。卡拉塔是澳大利亚最新的城市，由矿业繁荣创造，这是无益的特点是一个富有，但没有文化的傲慢的新来者，几乎没有遗产或历史。我们的项目旨在帮助当地社区改变这种说法，方法是促进当地人民，特别是老年人和学生，挑战现有的关于他们自己和他们社区的陈规定型观念，并与当地和国家媒体合作，传播关于Roebourne和卡拉塔的积极叙述。我们将共同制作长期使用的文化和遗产材料，这将使该地区的原住民和非原住民社区更充分地参与他们的过去，特别是原住民在维持治安和惩罚方面的连续性和不连续性，在不同社区建立社会凝聚力。在为当地学生提供真实世界的电影制作技能和机会，以增加当地的就业机会，我们希望减少刑事化的可能性，并为人民和支持澳大利亚西北部人民的教育/文化/遗产结构留下持久的遗产。