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dc.contributor.authorAdam, Megan Renaeen
dc.contributor.authorConnelly, Janen
dc.contributor.authorHardy, Joyen
dc.contributor.authorPlummer, Daviden
dc.contributor.authorMcConaghy, Cathryn Een
dc.date.accessioned2012-01-17T10:16:00Z-
dc.date.created2009en
dc.date.issued2010-
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/9228-
dc.description.abstractThis research is an exploration of contemporary postcolonial nutrition in remote Northern Territory Aboriginal communities. It is an interpretive inquiry that seeks firstly to understand nutrition in an historical, political and cultural framework and secondly, to examine the relationship between culture, knowledge and power in order to offer an alternative view that will be effective in informing novel solutions to reducing nutritional inequalities. The premise of the research is that in order to ensure improved nutrition for Aboriginal people in the future, there needs to be an increased focus on the ethical issues of human rights and social justice and the practical issues of intervention and policy implementation. The research focuses on the impact that the dominant culture has had on food and nutrition rather than seeing food and nutrition as the outcome of Aboriginal factors. It explores aspects of the dominant culture which contribute to creating and perpetuating marginalisation. The research demonstrates that nutrition and nutrition education are subject to privileging, colonial control and power. Taking colonialism and postcolonialism as the theoretical perspective, I claim that the largest contributing factor toward the past and present poor nutritional status of Aboriginal people is the historical legacy of the colonial experience and the consequences of ongoing postcolonial policies. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) was ideally positioned as an analytical framework to investigate the narratives of 28 research participants and the sites of difference about which they spoke. The research illustrates that the situation is unlikely to improve without politicisation of nutrition issues and it seeks to encourage nutritionists, dietitians and other health professionals to advocate for policies, institutions and power structures to be reconstructed within a realistic social justice framework.en
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dc.titleStarved of Power: The cultural politics of nutrition and the dietary colonisation of Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory of Australiaen
dc.typeThesis Doctoralen
dc.subject.keywordsMedicine, Nursing and Health Curriculum and Pedagogyen
local.contributor.firstnameMegan Renaeen
local.contributor.firstnameJanen
local.contributor.firstnameJoyen
local.contributor.firstnameDaviden
local.contributor.firstnameCathryn Een
local.subject.for2008130209 Medicine, Nursing and Health Curriculum and Pedagogyen
local.subject.seo2008939901 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Educationen
local.subject.seo749903 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander educationen
dcterms.RightsStatementCopyright 2009 - Megan Renae Adamen
dc.date.conferred2010en
local.hos.emailhoshass@une.edu.auen
local.thesis.degreelevelDoctoralen
local.thesis.degreenameDoctor of Philosophyen
local.contributor.grantorUniversity of New Englanden
local.profile.schoolSchool of Educationen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Educationen
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local.profile.emailmadam@une.edu.auen
local.profile.emailjan_connelly@mac.comen
local.profile.emailjhardy4@une.edu.auen
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local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
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local.title.subtitleThe cultural politics of nutrition and the dietary colonisation of Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory of Australiaen
local.contributor.lastnameAdamen
local.contributor.lastnameConnellyen
local.contributor.lastnameHardyen
local.contributor.lastnamePlummeren
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local.title.maintitleStarved of Poweren
local.output.categorydescriptionT2 Thesis - Doctorate by Researchen
local.school.graduationSchool of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciencesen
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local.search.authorAdam, Megan Renaeen
local.search.supervisorConnelly, Janen
local.search.supervisorHardy, Joyen
local.search.supervisorPlummer, Daviden
local.search.supervisorMcConaghy, Cathryn Een
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