Unknown: Aboriginal Homelands, Outback Australia and the Centre for Appropriate Technology - Softcover
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Alan Mayne holds a ResearchSA Chair at the University of South Australia, where he is Professor of Social History in the David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research, and the Hawke Research Institute. He holds a PhD (1980) from the Australian National University and worked until 2005 at the University of Melbourne. He has also been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in Washington DC, a Senior Fulbright scholar at Boston and Berkeley, and a visiting Professorial Fellow at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. His core interests relate to social equity and sustainability.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Not all interventions in Aboriginal Australia are inspired by external agents, politics or ideology. Some arise from simple, pragmatic responses to community needs where people and their aspirations are central.Historian Alan Mayne unravels a story of people, place and relationships. At once both personal and intensely political, this is a journey of ideas into action; intervention through innovation.In 2010, thirty years after an initial start-up grant of $40,000, an Aboriginal owned science and technology organisation (CAT) was operating with an annual turnover in excess of $20 million and a staff of 130 providing technical services to over 500 remote Aboriginal communities spread across the northern half of Australia. An institution linking people with technology, sustaining livelihoods on country. Not all interventions in Aboriginal Australia are inspired by external agents, politics or ideology. Some arise from pragmatic responses to community needs where people's aspirations are central. Mayne unravels a story of people, place and relationships. Personal and political, this is a journey of ideas to action; intervention through innovation. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781743052723
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