Jon Willis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3615317 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jon Willis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jon |
| FAMILY NAME | Willis |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4940-3105 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Voices from the Frontline
Homelessness is a significant issue in Australia, particularly for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, who are disproportionally affected compared to non-Indigenous Australians. In this article, we present new findings into the barriers and enablers of housing stability for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Brisbane and Logan areas of Queensland. The aim of the study was to document workers perceptions of barriers and …
Mandatory versus non-mandatory training in culturally safe practices for education staff at universities
This study aimed to determine whether mandatory or non-mandatory cultural safety training would be more effective to address a lack of cultural safety for Indigenous students in tertiary education. Two electronic databases were systematically searched, and articles were included based on reference to mandatory or non-mandatory cultural safety training, and respective outcomes for Indigenous students. Findings were mixed, whereby studies with both…
“So we tell them”
There is a growing literature on Indigenous masculinities written by scholars in North America, Hawai‘i and New Zealand which draws on a variety of approaches. While there are signs of scholarly interest in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander masculinities in Australia, this has yet to translate into a distinct body of work. This article is a potential opening onto such a future corpus, foregrounding and privileging how Aboriginal and Torres St…
Sport as a cultural offset in Aboriginal Australia
Sport-for-development is increasingly employed as a tool for domestic development within marginalized communities. In Australia, sport is assumed to have a 'natural fit' with Aboriginal communities - accordingly it is utilized in a variety of ways. In seeking to challenge and examine this situation and the dominant / unquestioned / invisible assumptions inherent, we propose the notion of cultural offsetting - whereby sport is positioned as a way …
Panic at the Disco-Urse
Critical theorists from Walter Benjamin to Arthur Kroker and Debra Lupton have commented on how end-of-century or end-of-millennium social anxieties manifest in crises of social or subjective integrity including widespread social panic responses to perceived threats to such integrity. During the last 2 decades we have seen such a response to a range of public health issues, including obesity, drug use in sport, binge drinking, rural mental health…
Heteronormativity and the deflection of male same-sex attraction among the Pitjantjatjara people of Australia's Western Desert
This paper describes findings from fieldwork conducted among Pitjantjatjara tribespeople of Central Australia between 1989 and 1997. The study examined the impact of a distinctive gender system and practices of masculinity, particularly sexual and ritual practices, on the risk of contracting sexually transmissible infections and other blood-borne diseases. The research was designed as an ethnography of masculinity, conducted via participant obser…
Condoms are for whitefellas
This paper reports on ethnographic research on the culture-specific barriers that masculinity poses to preventing HIV transmission in the sexual lives of Pitjantjatjara men. The investigation had three objectives: Investigating how the Pitjantjatjara people model the physical and social development of adult male bodies; describing the nature, range and cultural dynamics of sexual practice among Pitjantjatjara men; and delineating health and infec…
Dying in country
In recent years, palliative care and hospice service providers have been criticised for their contribution to the increasing medical rationalisation of death and dying. At the same time, efforts to make palliative care more culturally appropriate for different ethnic minorities are also being criticised for their reification of cultural practices. In this paper, I examine three aspects of the process of dying for Pitjantjatjara Aboriginal people …
Sport as a cultural offset in Aboriginal Australia
Sport-for-development is increasingly employed as a tool for domestic development within marginalized communities. In Australia, sport is assumed to have a 'natural fit' with Aboriginal communities - accordingly it is utilized in a variety of ways. In seeking to challenge and examine this situation and the dominant / unquestioned / invisible assumptions inherent, we propose the notion of cultural offsetting - whereby sport is positioned as a way …
Dying in country
In recent years, palliative care and hospice service providers have been criticised for their contribution to the increasing medical rationalisation of death and dying. At the same time, efforts to make palliative care more culturally appropriate for different ethnic minorities are also being criticised for their reification of cultural practices. In this paper, I examine three aspects of the process of dying for Pitjantjatjara Aboriginal people …
Voices from the Frontline
Homelessness is a significant issue in Australia, particularly for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, who are disproportionally affected compared to non-Indigenous Australians. In this article, we present new findings into the barriers and enablers of housing stability for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Brisbane and Logan areas of Queensland. The aim of the study was to document workers perceptions of barriers and …
Panic at the Disco-Urse
Critical theorists from Walter Benjamin to Arthur Kroker and Debra Lupton have commented on how end-of-century or end-of-millennium social anxieties manifest in crises of social or subjective integrity including widespread social panic responses to perceived threats to such integrity. During the last 2 decades we have seen such a response to a range of public health issues, including obesity, drug use in sport, binge drinking, rural mental health…
Dying in country
In recent years, palliative care and hospice service providers have been criticised for their contribution to the increasing medical rationalisation of death and dying. At the same time, efforts to make palliative care more culturally appropriate for different ethnic minorities are also being criticised for their reification of cultural practices. In this paper, I examine three aspects of the process of dying for Pitjantjatjara Aboriginal people …
Heteronormativity and the deflection of male same-sex attraction among the Pitjantjatjara people of Australia's Western Desert
This paper describes findings from fieldwork conducted among Pitjantjatjara tribespeople of Central Australia between 1989 and 1997. The study examined the impact of a distinctive gender system and practices of masculinity, particularly sexual and ritual practices, on the risk of contracting sexually transmissible infections and other blood-borne diseases. The research was designed as an ethnography of masculinity, conducted via participant obser…
Condoms are for whitefellas
This paper reports on ethnographic research on the culture-specific barriers that masculinity poses to preventing HIV transmission in the sexual lives of Pitjantjatjara men. The investigation had three objectives: Investigating how the Pitjantjatjara people model the physical and social development of adult male bodies; describing the nature, range and cultural dynamics of sexual practice among Pitjantjatjara men; and delineating health and infec…
Panic at the Disco-Urse
Critical theorists from Walter Benjamin to Arthur Kroker and Debra Lupton have commented on how end-of-century or end-of-millennium social anxieties manifest in crises of social or subjective integrity including widespread social panic responses to perceived threats to such integrity. During the last 2 decades we have seen such a response to a range of public health issues, including obesity, drug use in sport, binge drinking, rural mental health…
“So we tell them”
There is a growing literature on Indigenous masculinities written by scholars in North America, Hawai‘i and New Zealand which draws on a variety of approaches. While there are signs of scholarly interest in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander masculinities in Australia, this has yet to translate into a distinct body of work. This article is a potential opening onto such a future corpus, foregrounding and privileging how Aboriginal and Torres St…
Sport as a cultural offset in Aboriginal Australia
Sport-for-development is increasingly employed as a tool for domestic development within marginalized communities. In Australia, sport is assumed to have a 'natural fit' with Aboriginal communities - accordingly it is utilized in a variety of ways. In seeking to challenge and examine this situation and the dominant / unquestioned / invisible assumptions inherent, we propose the notion of cultural offsetting - whereby sport is positioned as a way …
Mandatory versus non-mandatory training in culturally safe practices for education staff at universities
This study aimed to determine whether mandatory or non-mandatory cultural safety training would be more effective to address a lack of cultural safety for Indigenous students in tertiary education. Two electronic databases were systematically searched, and articles were included based on reference to mandatory or non-mandatory cultural safety training, and respective outcomes for Indigenous students. Findings were mixed, whereby studies with both…
Voices from the Frontline
Homelessness is a significant issue in Australia, particularly for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, who are disproportionally affected compared to non-Indigenous Australians. In this article, we present new findings into the barriers and enablers of housing stability for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Brisbane and Logan areas of Queensland. The aim of the study was to document workers perceptions of barriers and …
Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Indigenous (3 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (2 works) · Criminology (2 works)