Understanding how deficit discourses work against implementing participatory approaches in Australian Indigenous policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11228268 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Prudence R Brown (0000-0003-0536-0200, School of Political Science and International Studies University of Queensland St Lucia Qld Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 401-417 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Journal of Social Issues (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0157-6321 • E-ISSN: 1839-4655 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/ajs4.78 |
| OpenAlex | W2971979002 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 14 |
One of the few things that everyone can agree on with respect to Australian Indigenous policy is that repeated government experiments aimed at improving Indigenous well‐being in Australia and particularly in remote Australia have failed. Outcomes remain poor and are, if anything, deteriorating in a number of areas. Critics have characterised the history of Indigenous policy as a series of failed policy experiments. The latest experiment in the quest to improve outcomes involves attempts to move away from the usual rational‐technical approaches, toward participatory approaches or “partnerships”. However, governments are struggling to implement these innovations. Self‐evidently, the Closing the Gap policy is grounded in deficit discourse. This paper examines how this discourse works within the existing Indigenous policy world to create possibly irreconcilable tensions with attempts to introduce participatory approaches. It does this using Logics of Critical Explanation, an interpretive method which allows us to understand how policy actors work within an existing policy world to either replace or augment their norms, values and ideologies to work in the new ways that are asked of them, or to resist innovation and revert to the status quo
Citizen journalism · Government (linguistics · Ideology · Indigenous · Participatory action research · Political science · Politics · Project commissioning · Public relations · Publishing · Sociology · Status quo · Work (physics · Engineering · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Public Administration · Water Governance and Infrastructure
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |