Significances of 'childhood' in postcolonial Australia

“童年”在后殖民澳大利亚的意义

• 批准号: FT170100210
• 负责人: Dr Joanne Faulkner
• 金额: $ 52.02万
• 依托单位: Macquarie University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: ARC Future Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2018-02-07 至 2023-08-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/FT170100210
• 关键词: Significances; childhood; postcolonial; Australia

This project aims to investigate the rhetorical and political use of the figure of the Aboriginal child as a site of mediation in efforts to reconcile cultural tensions in Australia, particularly between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities. Utilising an interdisciplinary critical analysis of concepts of childhood, the expected outcomes of the project include enhanced understanding of the specific character of injury inflicted upon Aboriginal communities through interventions targeting their children, such as their removal into out of home care. This should provide significant benefits to the contemporary social project of reconciliation, through increasing critical attention to the part of cultural misunderstanding in perpetuating Aboriginal disadvantage.

该项目旨在调查原住民儿童形象的修辞和政治用途，作为调解场所，努力调和澳大利亚的文化紧张局势，特别是原住民和非原住民社区之间的紧张关系。利用对儿童概念的跨学科批判性分析，该项目的预期成果包括通过针对原住民儿童的干预措施（例如将他们转移到家庭外护理机构），增强对原住民社区所受伤害的具体特征的了解。通过增加对文化误解导致原住民劣势长期存在的部分的批判性关注，这应该为当代社会和解项目带来重大好处。