Decolonise This Space: Centring Indigenous Peoples in Music Therapy Practice

Suzi Hutchings

doi:10.15845/voices.v21i3.3350

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Suzi Hutchings Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia

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https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v21i3.3350

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Comisión Real, muertes aborígenes bajo custodia, australianos indígenas, teoría de los conocimientos indígenas, terapia, transcultural

Resumen

El 15 de abril de 2016 marcó el 25 aniversario desde que la Comisión Real sobre Muertes de Aborígenes en Custodia (‘Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody’ o RCIADIC) en Australia emitió su Informe Final. El informe significó un hito en las relaciones entre los australianos indígenas y los gobiernos estatales y federales poscoloniales. Establecida por el ‘Hawke Labor Government’ en 1987, la comisión examinó 99 muertes de indígenas. Lo más significativo fue el hallazgo de que las muertes se debieron a la combinación de policías y prisiones que no cumplieron con su deber de cuidado, y al gran número de indígenas arrestados y encarcelados.

A raíz de la RCIADIC, las sesiones interculturales y los talleres de competencia cultural se han vuelto omnipresentes para los servidores públicos, terapeutas y empleados legales y de bienestar, en un intento de cerrar las brechas en el conocimiento cultural entre los agentes del estado de bienestar y los clientes indígenas. Utilizando la teoría de los conocimientos indígenas, este capítulo evalúa cómo los desajustes culturales entre los clientes indígenas y aquellos que trabajan con ellos en nombre de terapias diseñadas para mejorar las vidas de los indígenas, dominan las interacciones interculturales. Al hacerlo, se plantean las preguntas: ¿cómo las buenas intenciones se vuelven parte de los discursos y prácticas del colonialismo en curso para los indígenas australianos, y qué se puede hacer para cambiar el equilibrio de poder a favor de terapias de relevancia para los pueblos indígenas?

Biografía del autor/a

Suzi Hutchings, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia

Dr Suzi Hutchings is a Social Anthropologist and member of the Central Arrernte Nation. She is Associate Professor in Criminology and Justice Studies in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University. She teaches Indigenous Studies, Indigenous policy and policy design.

Suzi’s career is dedicated to working with First Nations peoples and communities throughout Australia. Since 1983, as a social anthropologist and Indigenous scholar of native title and family jurisprudence, Suzi has been consulting on the impacts of criminal justice and welfare intervention on Aboriginal youth and families. Her most recent engagement in this capacity was with the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement (SA) providing expert cultural evidence in a child protection matter for a Pitjantjatjara family living in South Australia and the Northern Territory.

Suzi has also worked extensively as a senior anthropologist on native title claims across Australia, including in Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia and the ACT. She was the senior anthropologist on the successful Esperance Nyungar native title claim. Suzi also collaborates with First Nations young people exploring innovative ways to maintain and express Indigenous identities, resilience, resistance, sovereignty and indigeneity through music and performance. This has included a highly successful co-production on Indigenous Hip-Hop with Melbourne based Indigenous musicians and Boonwurrung Elders, and the Australian Music Vault, Arts Centre Victoria.

Suzi produces and presents Subway Sounds for Community Radio station PBS 106.7FM in Melbourne. Suzi is co-editor with R. Aída Hernández Castillo and Brian Noble, of the 2019 publication: Transcontinental Dialogues: Activist Alliances with Indigenous Peoples of Canada, Mexico, and Australia, University of Arizona Press (https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/transcontinental-dialogues).

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