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

我们将与合作伙伴Roebourne High School、Ngaarda Media、Karratha Library和Red Earth Centre合作，利用“数字全景监狱”（Digital Panopticon）的研究成果，支持在偏远的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，大力加强支持儿童、青少年和成年人挑战其社区中最尖锐问题的努力，影响和改善澳大利亚土著居民（特别是恩加鲁马和英吉巴尔迪老年人和青年）的生活。在澳大利亚，两个多世纪以来，种族、阶级和刑事司法系统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，与他们在社会上的人数极不相称。在种族隔离时期，澳大利亚土著人的监禁率是南非黑人的五倍；比今天美国非裔美国人的比率还要高。我们提议的项目位于卡拉塔希尔郡（西澳大利亚），有两个城市中心：Roebourne（已经成为澳大利亚最臭名昭著的犯罪困扰之一）有一个弹性但脆弱的社区，年轻人遭受多重不利。三分之二的儿童遭受过性侵犯，三分之一的成年男子被监禁。许多被拘留的年轻人以前曾看望过他们被拘留的父亲。这个城镇总是几乎完全与犯罪和虐待联系在一起，年轻人仍然忍受着与不是他们自己创造的历史和叙述联系在一起的痛苦。卡拉塔（Karratha）是澳大利亚最新的城市，由采矿业的繁荣创造而成，但它被描述为一个富有但没有文化的傲慢的新来者，没有什么遗产或历史。我们的项目旨在帮助当地社区改变这种说法，帮助当地人，特别是老年人和学生，挑战对他们自己和社区的现有刻板印象，并与当地和国家媒体合作，传播关于Roebourne和Karratha的正面叙述。我们将共同制作长期使用的文化和遗产材料，这将吸引和激励该地区的土著和非土著社区更充分地参与他们的过去，特别是土著警察和惩罚经验的连续性和断续性，在不同社区之间建立社会凝聚力。通过为当地学校学生提供真实的电影制作技能和机会，以增加当地的就业机会，我们希望减少犯罪的可能性，并为支持澳大利亚西北部人民的人民和教育/文化/遗产结构留下持久的遗产。

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.