Leading from Between


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Since the 1970s governments in Canada and Australia have introduced policies designed to recruit Indigenous people into public services. Today, there are thousands of Indigenous public servants in these countries, and hundreds in senior roles. Their presence raises numerous questions: How do Indigenous people experience public-sector employment? What perspectives do they bring to it? And how does Indigenous leadership enhance public policy making? A comparative study of Indigenous public servants in British Columbia and Queensland, Leading from Between addresses critical concerns about leadership, difference, and public service. Centring the voices, personal experiences, and understandings of Indigenous public servants, this book uses their stories and testimony to explore how Indigenous participation and leadership change the way policies are made. Articulating a new understanding of leadership and what it could mean in contemporary public service, Catherine Althaus and Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh challenge the public service sector to work towards a more personalized and responsive bureaucracy. At a time when Canada and Australia seek to advance reconciliation and self-determination agendas, Leading from Between shows how public servants who straddle the worlds of Western bureaucracy and Indigenous communities are key to helping governments meet the opportunities and challenges of growing diversity.







Between Colliding Worlds


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Jonathan Malloy's Between Colliding Worlds examines the relationship between governments and external activists through a comparative study of policy units dedicated to aboriginal and women's issues in Australia and Canada. Malloy identifies these units - or 'special policy agencies' - as sitting on the boundary between the world of permanent public servants and that of collective social movements working for broad social and political change. These agencies at once represent the interests of social movements to government while simultaneously managing relations with social movements on behalf of government, and - thus - operate in a state of permanent ambiguity. Malloy contends that rather than criticizing these agencies for their inherently contradictory nature, we must reconsider them as effectively dealing with the delicate issue of bridging social movements with state politics. In other words, the very existence of these special policy agencies provides a forum for social movements and the state to work out their differences. Relying heavily on interviews with public servants and external activists, Malloy argues convincingly that special policy agencies, despite - or because of - their ambiguous relationship to different communities, make critical contributions to governance.










Men's Business, Women's Business


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For thousands of years the Ngarinyin Aboriginal culture has existed with almost total division of resposibility between sexes enabling both to respect the power, wisdom, and essentiality of the other. In this book the author, after a 25 year association with these people, draws useful parallels to benefit gender-troubled Western society.




Women's business


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OECD Rural Studies Linking Indigenous Communities with Regional Development in Australia


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Indigenous Australians play an important role in the development of regional economies. Compared to the non-Indigenous population, Indigenous peoples are more likely to be located in predominantly rural regions. However, significant gaps in socio-economic outcomes with non-Indigenous Australians remain and these gaps are larger in rural regions. The report provides three key recommendations to improve economic outcomes for Indigenous Australians.




Indigenous Women and Work


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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Preface Marlene Brant Castellano -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Carol Williams -- 1. Aboriginal Women and Work across the 49th Parallel: Historical Antecedents and New Challenges Joa -- 2. Making a Living: Anishinaabe Women in Michigan's Changing Economy Alice Littlefield -- 3. Procuring Passage: Southern Australian Aboriginal Women and the Early Maritime Industry of Sealin -- 4. The Contours of Agency: Women's Work, Race, and Queensland's Indentured Labor Trade Tracey Baniva -- 5. From "Superabundance" to Dependency: Women Agriculturalists and the Negotiation of Colonialism a- -- 6. "We Were Real Skookum Women": The shishalh Economy and the Logging Industry on the Pacific Northw -- 7. Unraveling the Narratives of Nostalgia: Navajo Weavers and Globalization Kathy M'Closkey -- 8. Labor and Leisure in the "Enchanted Summer Land": Anishinaabe Women's Work and the Growth of Wisc -- 9. Nimble Fingers and Strong Backs: First Nations and Métis Women in Fur Trade and Rural Economies S -- 10. Northfork Mono Women's Agricultural Work, "Productive Coexistence," and Social Well-Being in tha -- 11. Diverted Mothering among American Indian Domestic Servants, 1920-1940 Margaret D. Jacobs -- 12. Charity or Industry? American Indian Women and Work Relief in the New Deal Era Colleen O'Neill -- 13. "An Indian Teacher among Indians": Native Women As Federal Employees Cathleen D. Cahill -- 14. "Assaulting the Ears of Government": The Indian Homemakers' Clubs and the Maori Women's Welfare -- 15. Politically Purposeful Work: Ojibwe Women's Labor and Leadership in Postwar Minneapolis Brenda J -- 16. Maori Sovereignty, Black Feminism, and the New Zealand Trade Union Movement Cybèle Locke -- 17. Beading Lesson Beth H. Piatote -- Contributors -- Index.