Australia The Culture

Author : Tinashe Dune,Kim McLeod,Robyn Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781000347210

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Culture, Diversity and Health in Australia by Tinashe Dune,Kim McLeod,Robyn Williams Pdf

Australia is increasingly recognised as a multicultural and diverse society. Nationally, all accrediting bodies for allied health, nursing, midwifery and medical professions require tertiary educated students to be culturally safe with regards to cultural and social diversity. This text, drawing on experts from a range of disciplines, including public health, nursing and sociology, shows how the theory and practice of cultural safety can inform effective health care practices with all kinds of diverse populations. Part 1 explores key themes and concepts, including social determinants of health and cultural models of health and health care. There is a particular focus on how different models of health, including the biomedical and Indigenous perspectives, intersect in Australia today. Part 2 looks at culturally safe health care practice focusing on principles and practice as well as policy and advocacy. The authors consider the practices that can be most effective, including meaningful communication skills and cultural responsiveness. Part 3 examines the practice issues in working with diverse populations, including Indigenous Australians, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Australians, Australians with disabilities, Australians of diverse sexual orientation and gender identity, and ageing Australians. Part 4 combines all learnings from Parts 1–3 into practical learning activities, assessments and feedback for learners engaging with this textbook. Culture, Diversity and Health in Australia is a sensitive, richly nuanced and comprehensive guide to effective health practice in Australia today and is a key reference text for either undergraduate or postgraduate students studying health care. It will also be of interest to professional health care practitioners and policy administrators.

Author : Tony Bennett,David Carter,Greg Noble,Modesto Gayo,Michelle Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138392294

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Fields, Capitals, Habitus by Tony Bennett,David Carter,Greg Noble,Modesto Gayo,Michelle Kelly Pdf

Fields, Capitals, Habitus provides an insightful analysis of the relations between culture and society in contemporary Australia. Presenting the findings of a detailed national survey of Australian cultural tastes and practices, it demonstrates the pivotal significance of the role culture plays at the intersections of a range of social divisions and inequalities: between classes, age cohorts, ethnicities, genders, city and country, and the relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The book looks first at how social divisions inform the ways in which Australians from different social backgrounds and positions engage with the genres, institutions, and particular works of culture and cultural figures across six cultural fields: the visual arts, literature, music, heritage, television, and sport. It then examines how Australians' cultural preferences across these fields interact within the Australian 'space of lifestyles'. The close attention paid to class here includes an engagement with role of 'middlebrow' cultures in Australia and the role played by new forms of Indigenous cultural capital in the emergence of an Indigenous middle class. The rich survey data is complemented throughout by in-depth qualitative data provided by interviews with survey participants. These are discussed more closely in the final part of the book which explores the gendered, political, personal and community associations of cultural tastes across Australia's Anglo-Celtic, Italian, Lebanese, Chinese and Indian populations. The distinctive ethical issues associated with how Australians relate to Indigenous culture are also examined. In the light it throws on the formations of cultural capital in a multicultural settler colonial society, Fields, Capitals, Habitus makes a landmark contribution to cultural capital research.

Author : Alan Lindsey McLeod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Australia
ISBN : OCLC:941060139

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The Pattern of Australian Culture by Alan Lindsey McLeod Pdf

Author : Ian Craven,Martin Gray,Geraldine Stoneham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1994-04-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521466679

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Australian Popular Culture by Ian Craven,Martin Gray,Geraldine Stoneham Pdf

Australia's leisure culture is legendary, and as millions of British viewers of Neighbours, fans of Yothu Yindi or drinkers of Castlemaine XXXX would attest, Australian popular culture is popular outside of Australia. Australian Popular Culture is an exciting collection of essays bringing together new perspectives on the nature and meaning of a nation's changing life. The collection also explores the idea of popular culture at large. Leading authors represent a range of approaches, backgrounds and fields to explore subjects of wide interest within the categories of 'the everyday', 'the mass media' and 'critical theory'. Chapters are devoted to the Aussie Back Yard; Vegemite; postage stamps; Australian Rules football; the introduction of television; Crocodile Dundee; The Lindy Chamberlain Affair; Spycatcher; Domesticity, leisure and love and Postmodernism and Australian Culture.

Author : Barry Penney,Gina Teague
Publisher : Bravo Limited
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-07
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9781857338287

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Australia - Culture Smart! by Barry Penney,Gina Teague Pdf

Australia is differenta vast island-continent with distances so great that the capital of Western Australia is closer to Singapore than it is to Sydney. The landscape embraces magnificent tropical rainforests and deserts the size of several European states; temperate areas that sustain a flourishing wine industry, making Australia the world s fourth largest wine exporter; a sixteen-thousand-mile coastline of breathtaking beaches; and its unique fauna is testament to the country s down-underness. Indigenous Australians have inhabited the continent for more than fifty thousand years, yet European settlement is just over two hundred years old. Since the end of the Second World War the country has opened its doors to a hugely diverse immigrant population and slowly shaken off the mantle of British influence, transforming what was perhaps one of the dullest nations into one of the most stimulating. The Australians old settler mentalityregarding themselves as battlers, and embarrassed by their lack of sophisticationhas given way to a new national confidence. The achievements of Australia s artists, sportspeople, entertainers, scientists, and businesspeople puts them on the global stage. Despite the diversity of ethnicities there is a pervasive homogeneity among Australians: a generosity of spirit and a forthrightness, sometimes disarming for the visitor. A sense of fairness and equality is valued, as is the ability not to take oneself too seriously. Culture Smart! Australia introduces you to a young nation with one of the world s highest standards of living, where people work to live in order to enjoy a lifestyle that many across the globe covet, and in which Australians take great pride (and don t mind telling you about)."

Author : Graeme Turner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134962532

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Nation, Culture, Text by Graeme Turner Pdf

Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies is the first collection of cultural studies from Australia, selected and introduced for an international readership. Participating in the `de-centring' of cultural studies - considering what perspectives other than the European and the American have to offer - the contributors raise important issues about the role of a national tradition of critical theory, and about the cultural specificity of theory itself. A key theme is the place of the postcolonial nation within contemporary cultural theory - particularly those aspects of contemporary theory which see the category of contemporary theory which see the category of the nation as either outdated or suspect. The writers tackle subjects ranging from the televising of the Bicentennial to the role of policy in film, television and the heritage industry, from the use of video technologies with remote Aboriginal communities to the role of ethnography in cultural studies.

Author : Tony Bennett,David Carter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001-09-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521004039

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Culture in Australia by Tony Bennett,David Carter Pdf

A 2001 survey of the changing policies and priorities that are evident in a range of contemporary cultural institutions in Australia.

Author : Baden Offord,Erika Kerruish,Rob Garbutt,Adele Wessell,Kirsten Pavlovic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-15
Category : Australia
ISBN : 1783084316

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Inside Australian Culture by Baden Offord,Erika Kerruish,Rob Garbutt,Adele Wessell,Kirsten Pavlovic Pdf

"Inside Australian Culture: Legacies of Enlightenment Values" offers a critical intervention in the continuing effects of colonization in Australia and the structures it brought, which still inform and dominate its public culture. Through a careful analysis of three disparate but significant moments in Australian history, the authors investigate the way the British Enlightenment continues to dominate contemporary Australian thinking and values. Employing the lens of Indian cultural theorist Ashis Nandy, the authors argue for an Australian public culture that is profoundly conscious of its assumptions, history and limitations.

Author : John Rickard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Australia
ISBN : 1921867604

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Australia by John Rickard Pdf

Australia: A Cultural History, first published in 1988, is still the only short history of Australia from a cultural perspective. It has acquired a unique reputation as an introduction to the development of Australian society and was listed by the historian and public intellectual John Hirst in his 'First XI: The best Australian history books'. The book focuses on the transmission of values, beliefs and customs amongst the diverse mix of peoples who are today's Australians. The story begins with the 60,000 years of the Aboriginal presence and their continuing material and spiritual relationship with the land, and takes readers through the turbulent years of British colonisation and the emergence, through prosperity, war and depression, of the cultural accommodations which have been distinctively Australian. This 3rd Edition concludes with a critical review of the challenges facing contemporary Australia and warns that 'we may get the future we deserve'. [Some images unavailable for OA]

Author : Paul Longley Arthur
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781783087228

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Migrant Nation by Paul Longley Arthur Pdf

Focusing on particular historical blind spots by telling stories of individuals and groups that did not fit the favoured identity mould, the essays in 'Migrant Nation' work within the gap between Australian image and experience and offer fresh insights into the ‘other’ side of identity construction. The volume casts light on the hidden face of Australian identity and remembers the experiences of a wide variety of people who have generally been excluded, neglected or simply forgotten in the long-running quest to tell a unified story of Australian culture and identity. Drawing upon memories, letters, interviews and documentary fragments, as well as rich archives, the authors have in common a commitment to give life to neglected histories and thus to include, in an expanding and open-ended national narrative, people who were cast as strangers in the place that was their home.

Author : Paul Foss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : IND:30000000123095

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Island in the Stream by Paul Foss Pdf

Includes Aboriginal-European relations; contributions by Peter Myers, and Colin Symes and Bob Lingard annotated separately.

Author : Michelle Arrow
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780868406626

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Friday on Our Minds by Michelle Arrow Pdf

From jitterbugging and Big Brother to the introduction of television and the rise of file-sharing, this study explores the ways in which popular culture has developed and changed in Australia from the end of World War II to today. In order to understand the massive social and cultural changes that have taken place Down Under, popular culture is examined through three main lenses: consumerism and the development of a mass consumer society, the impact of technological change, and the ways in which popular culture contributes to and articulates individual and collective identities. Providing the first integrated account of Australian post-war culture, this reference analyzes film, television, sports, music, and leisure in relation to each other rather than as stand-alone cultural forms.

Author : Erinn Banting
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0778793451

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Australia - The Culture by Erinn Banting Pdf

Australia the Culture shares the religions and celebrations, folk music and dance, arts, languages and literature, and cinematic culture of 'the mob' down under.

Author : John Fiske,Bob Hodge,Graeme Turner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315511399

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Myths of Oz by John Fiske,Bob Hodge,Graeme Turner Pdf

This book, first published in 1987, sets out to examine and extend our understanding of Australian popular culture, and to counter the long-established, traditional criticism bewailing its lack. The authors argue that the 'knocker's' view started from an elitist viewpoint, yearning for Australia to aspire to a European culture in art, music, literature and other traditional cultural fields. They argue however that there are other definitions of culture that are more populist, more comprehensive, and which represent a vitality and dynamism which is a true reflection of the lives and aspirations of Australians. Myths of Oz offers no comprehensive definition of Australian culture, but rather a way of interpreting its various aspects. The barbeque or the pub, an expedition to the shops or a day at the beach, the home, the workplace or the job queue; all these intrinsic parts of Australian life are examined and conclusions drawn as to how they shape or are shaped by what we call popular culture. The authors look too at monuments and symbols, from Ayers Rock to the Sydney Opera House, which both shape and reflect Australian culture, while a chapter on the Australian accent shows how language and terminology play a powerful role in establishing cultural standpoints. A particular strength of this book is that while delivering a provocative and stimulating series of viewpoints on popular culture, it also makes use of current academic tools and methodology to ensure that we gain new insights into the meanings and pleasures we derive from our everyday experiences.

Author : S. L. Goldberg,F. B. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1989-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521377587

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Australian Cultural History by S. L. Goldberg,F. B. Smith Pdf

Australian Cultural History is a 1988 text which opens up new ways of looking at Australian society, culture and history. The diverse and distinguished authors range across religion, literature, history, popular ideas, painting, ballet, patronage and education. The approach to culture throughout is inclusive, and pluralist - each essay extends the reader's understanding of what makes Australian culture, in a lively and provocative manner. These questions have relevance to all interested in 19th and 20th century social development.