Melbourne School of Population HealthMcCaughey Centre: VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health and Community Wellbeing

Session 1: Introduction to critique and key terms

Core Reading:

Discourse Definition

Goodman (2005)


Potter (1996)

Further reading:

Identity and Indigeneity

Paradies (2006)


Moore (2005)

Tsing AL. (2007). "Indigenous Voice," in Indigenous Experience Today, O.Starn & M. De La Cadena (eds.) Berg, New York, pp. 33-67

Race/Ethnicity


Caulfield et al (2009)

Lee et al (2008)


Session 2: Whiteness and Racialisation


Core reading:

Martin-McDonald & McCarthy (2008)

McIntosh (1990)

Paradies (2006)


Thompson (2001)


Further reading:

Whiteness

Okun (2009)


Croteau (1999)


Frankenberg (1993) p. 1-18

Frankenberg (1993) p. 191-205

Hartigan (1997)

Jensen (1998)

Jensen (1999)

McKinney KD. (2005). Being White: Stories of Race and Racism. London: Routledge.

Sullivan S. (2006). Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Race Privilege. Chesham: Indiana University Press

Racism

Paradies et al (2008)


Berman and Paradies (2008)

Cowlishaw G. (2004). Blackfellas, whitefellas and the hidden injuries of race. Carlton: Blackwell.
   
Session 3: Explaining health inequalities
   
Core Reading:
   
Cowlishaw (2004) p.78-80
   
Cowlishaw (2004) p.128-133
   
Herbert et al (2008)

   
Reid et al (2000)
   
Further Reading:
   
Abbott (2007)

   
Blaxter (1997)

Nazroo (1998)

Nguyen & Preschard (2003)

Session 4: Critiquing the burden of history

Core reading:

Humphery (2001)


Lupton (1995)

Further reading:

Anderson (2007)

Thomas (2004)

Anderson W. (2002). The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Healthy and Racial Destiny in Australia. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.

Cowlishaw G. (2006). Collateral Damage in the History Wars. Pp. 131-146 in Lea T, Kowal E & Cowlishaw G (eds), Moving Anthropology: Critical Indigenous Studies. Darwin: Charles Darwin University Press.
 
Thomas DP. (2004). Reading doctor's writing: Race, politics and power in Indigenous health research, 1870-1969. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.
 
Session 5: Indigenous health and the paradigm shift

 
Core reading:
 
Brady (2007)
 
Manne (2007)

Tonkinson (2007)

Further reading:
 
Darwin University Press.

Hurtado & Steward (1997)

Glasson (2007)

Langton (2008)

Pearson (2007)

Ring & Wenitong (2007)

Cowlishaw G, Kowal E & Lea T. (2006). Double Binds. Pp. 1-16 in in Lea T, Kowal E & Cowlishaw G (eds), Moving Anthropology: Critical Indigenous Studies. Darwin: Charles Darwin University Press.

Session 6: White racial identity theory

Core reading:

D'Andrea & Daniels (1999)

Hurtado & Steward (1997)

Further reading:

Holt (2004)

Ngarritjan-Kessaris (1995)

Carter (1997)

Helms (1993)

Session 7: 'Culture' in Indigenous public health

Core Reading:

Brady (1995)

Kowal (2006)

Sutton (2001)

Further Reading:


Ahmad (1996)


Brady (2002)

Humphery (2002)

Lutschini (2005)


Weeramanthri (1995)

Session 8: The culture of Indigenous public health


Core Reading:

Cowlishaw (2003)

Kowal (2008)

Lea (2001)

Further reading:

Adams (2002)

Coveney (1998)


Kowal (2006)

Lupton (1995)

Lea T. (2008). Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts: Indigenous Health in Northern Australia. Sydney: UNSW Press.

Kowal and Paradies (2005)

Session 9: Approaches to Indigenous Public Health - a debate

Core Reading for all positions:

Wakerman et al (2005)
 
Kowal et al 2005
 
Core Reading for position 1:

Bunton (1992)

Folds (1993)

Hall (1992)

Further Reading for position 1:

Folds R. (2001). Crossed Purposes: The Pintupi and Australia's Indigenous Policy. University of New South Wales Press.

Core Reading for position 2:

National Academy of Sciences (1993)

Rothman et al (1998)

Further Reading for position 2:

Epstein (2003)

Lacey (2001)

Satel (2005)

Core Reading for position 3:

Australian Story, Good Morning Mr.Sarra (2004)


Pearson (2000) p. 21-25

Pearson (2000) p. 93-96

Further Reading for position 3:

Pearson (2000) p. 44-52

Sandall (2000)

Core Reading for position 4:

Henry et al (2002)
 
Morgan et al (1997)

Further Reading for position 4:

Smith (1999)

Session 10: Reflecting on the practice of Indigenous public health

Core Reading:
 
Cowlishaw (2004)

Paradies (2005)


Selby (2004)

Shortcourse Powerpoint Presentations

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