Perspectives of my lived experiences for addressing suicides among aboriginal communities in the North Queensland tropics

Baird, Mercy (2020) Perspectives of my lived experiences for addressing suicides among aboriginal communities in the North Queensland tropics. AlterNative, 16 (3). pp. 211-219.

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Abstract

This article contextualises my perspectives of Indigenous knowledge within a cultural cosmology, used to address the suicide epidemic in an Indigenous Community in the Far North Queensland Tropics of Australia. I use my personal narrative from the philosophical standpoint theory of an Indigenous female with first-hand experience of living under the residues of the Queensland Government Act (1897). Through the lens of a social constructivist worldview and theoretical underpinnings of Indigenist research, I give honour to Indigenous knowledge, cultural values and privilege the voices of local people. As a PhD researcher at James Cook University, I apply to my research, “Healing after experiencing the suicide of a young person—Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives informed by Indigenous Knowledges” with three Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities. This research also aligns itself to the JCU Strategic Intent, Peoples and Society in the Tropics.

Item ID: 66717
Item Type: Article (Research - C1)
ISSN: 1174-1740
Keywords: Aboriginal, community, culture, healing, knowledge, suicide
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Copyright Information: © The Author(s) 2020.
Date Deposited: 31 Mar 2021 02:06
FoR Codes: 45 INDIGENOUS STUDIES > 4501 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, language and history > 450117 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing @ 25%
45 INDIGENOUS STUDIES > 4504 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing > 450409 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services @ 25%
45 INDIGENOUS STUDIES > 4504 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing > 450423 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth and family social and emotional wellbeing @ 50%
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