The extractives industry (mining, oil, and gas) engages in corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities to reinforce its organizational legitimacy and enhance its public image. One such approach to CSR that is popular in the industry is through funding sport initiatives aimed at Indigenous peoples (often termed Sport for Development; SFD). On the surface, such funding may seem commendable and innocuous; however, questions have been raised about the ways in which such funding may obfuscate the harmful impacts that the extractives industry has had and continues to have on Indigenous peoples and their traditional territories. Through the adoption of a postcolonial theoretical perspective and in conjunction with netnographic methods and discourse analysis, this project involved a consideration of how extractives companies portray their funding of sport programs in Indigenous communities on social media. Given the research focus on Indigenous communities in the countries known as Canada and Australia, between country differences were also examined. Three discourses related to the extractives industry’s funding of SFD in Indigenous communities in Canada and Australia were developed. These discourses included the following: 1) Extractives companies are proud “partners” of Indigenous communities; 2) Extractives companies are committed to helping Indigenous communities in Canada and Australia; and 3) Canadian extractives companies are future focused and past-blind, while Australian extractives companies are advocates for reconciliation. Overall, extractives companies in Canada and Australia were found to use social media to portray themselves as responsible and committed partners of Indigenous communities, while obscuring the ongoing histories of colonialism through discourses of empowerment and development through sport. Suggestions are made regarding ongoing interrogation of the ways in which the extractives industry perpetuates colonialism.

This paper discusses women’s involvement in their children’s mathematics education. It does, where possible, focus Torres Strait Islander women who share the aspirations of Aborginal communities around Australia. That is, they are keen for their children to receive an education that provides them with opportunities for their present and future lives. They are also keen to have their cultures’ child learning practices recognised and respected within mainstream education. This recognition has some way to go with the language of instruction in schools written to English conventions, decontextualised and disconnected to the students’ culture, Community and home language.

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Thesis (M.A.) (Honours) -- University of Western Sydney, Nepean, 2000. / A thesis presented in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Honours) - (Performance), School of Applied Social and Human Sciences, University of Western Sydney, Nepean, 2000. Bibliography : Vol. 1, leaves 202-209.

Cette étude reconsidère les récits de vie d’auteurs méconnus issus de la communauté des Insulaires australiens du Pacifique Sud dans une perspective postcoloniale. Elle se concentre sur leur expérience de déplacement et de relocalisation telle qu’elle est racontée dans les récits en lien avec la mémoire. Cette thèse avance que ces récits constituent une littérature de résistance et contribue dans leur ensemble à une plus large reconnaissance de leur communauté. Les Insulaires australiens se définissent comme les descendants d’Insulaires en provenance de Mélanésie principalement (Vanuatu et îles Salomon), engagés sous contrat (« Kanakas ») pour travailler dès 1863 dans les plantations de canne à sucre du Queensland dans des conditions proches de l’esclavage. Les souvenirs personnels des auteurs présentés, Faith Bandler, Noel Fatnowna, Mabel Edmund et Jacqui Wright associée à Francis Wimbis, de même que ceux de leurs ancêtres kidnappés, victimes du « blackbirding », mettent en lumière une histoire commune de souffrance, de discrimination mais aussi de survie et d’adaptation qui servit de base à la création d’une identité commune inédite en dépit de leurs diverses origines géographiques. Bien que leur existence ait fait l’objet d’une d’une reconnaissance officielle, cette identité inscrite sur le papier n’est pas aussi fixe et unique qu’il n’y paraît : elle s’intègre dans un réseau d’identités-relations maintenues en interaction constante par le travail mémoriel qui, dans les récits insulaires, opère à la fois comme stratégie de résistance à l’oubli et comme processus d’identification. A la fois ancrées en des lieux et déterritorialisées, ces identités dynamiques évoluent à la manière d’un rhizome et inscrivent les Insulaires australiens sur une carte plus large des populations diasporiques déplacées. / This dissertation reconsiders the life narratives of unrecognised writers belonging to the Australian South Sea Islander community from a postcolonial perspective. It concentrates on their experience of dispersion and relocation as related by memory and recounted in narrative. This thesis argues that these narratives constitute a literature of resistance and contribute as a body of work, to a larger recognition of their community. Australian South Sea Islanders define themselves as the descendants of Islanders who mainly came from Melanesia (Vanuatu, Solomon Islands) and were indentured to work on the sugar cane plantations of Queensland from 1863 to 1904 in slave-like conditions. The personal memories of the authors under study, Faith Bandler, Noel Fatnowna, Mabel Edmund and Jacqui Wright in association with Francis Wimbis, as well as those of their abducted ancestors, victims of « blackbirding », shed light on a common history of suffering, discrimination but also survival and adaptation which enabled them to create a new common identity despite their various geographical origins. Although their existence has been officially recognised, this identity, as written on paper, is not as fixed and unique as it seems: it is part of a network of identités-relations which, in the case of Australian South Sea Islanders’ narratives, are maintained in constant interaction by the work of memory that operates as a strategy of resistance against oblivion and as a process of identification. In being both rooted and deterritorialised, these dynamic identities are evolving in the same way as a rhizome would and they inscribe Australian South Sea Islanders on a larger map of diasporic displaced people.

There is an understanding among biological anthropologists that long bone epiphyseal shape is highly regulated by genetic and biomechanical factors. Conversely, long bone diaphyseal geometry and robusticity have been shown to respond to activity in life. The current study examined the assumption of epiphyseal consistency by exploring the relationship between a well established bony response to activity (Cross-Sectional Geometry) and shape change among the proximal humerus and femur. Long bone samples were taken from four hunter-gatherer populations: the Andaman Islanders, the Indian Knoll, Point Hope Alaskans, and the Sadlermiut. Shape was measured through landmark configurations placed on the proximal end of a total of 91 humeri and 84 femora. Cross-sectional Geometry measures (J) were taken from each specimen, as well. Principal Component Analyses were conducted on the landmark shape data to determine where the shape variation was occurring among the sample. These Principal Components were then compared via Bivariate Regression to the J values taken from the diaphysis. Significant relationships occurred between the development of the lesser tubercle and an increase in J among the humerus sample. Significant relationships were also found among the femur sample; as when J increased the proximal epiphyses were more likely to be more gracile, and the space between the femoral head and the greater trochanter increased. The humerus results indicated a more robust proximal epiphysis in groups with activities that rely heavily on the upper body, such as rowing, swimming, and harpooning. The femur results were more complex, as the relationship between activity and proximal shape is likely heavily influenced by a genetically predetermined body shape. These results indicated that there is a relationship between activity and proximal epiphyseal shape, but that it, like all relationships, is complex, and comprised of multiple factors. Ultimately, proximal long bone shape is the result of multiple influences including, activity, genetics, population adaptation, health, and many more. Future research should focus on determining if the relationship between activity and shape exists among other populations, and when and where it begins during growth and development. / Graduate