Decolonise This Space: Centring Indigenous Peoples in Music Therapy Practice

Suzi Hutchings

doi:10.15845/voices.v21i3.3350

Autori

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

DOI:

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

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Royal Commission, Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, Indigenous Australians, Indigenous Knowledges theory, therapy, cross-cultural

Abstract

Il 15 aprile 2016 ha segnato il venticinquesimo anniversario da quando la Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC) in Australia ha consegnato il suo Rapporto Finale. Il rapporto ha segnato una pietra miliare nelle relazioni tra gli indigeni australiani e i governi statali e federali post-coloniali. Istituita dal governo laburista Hawke nel 1987, la Commissione ha esaminato 99 morti indigene. La cosa più significativa è stata la scoperta che tali morti erano dovute alla combinazione di polizia e carceri che non rispettarono il loro dovere di diligenza, nonché l'alto numero di indigeni arrestati e incarcerati. Sulla scia del RCIADIC, sessioni interculturali e workshop sulle competenze culturali sono diventati onnipresenti per dipendenti pubblici, terapisti e dipendenti legali e assistenziali, nel tentativo di colmare le lacune nella conoscenza culturale tra agenti dello stato sociale e clienti indigeni. Utilizzando la Indigenous Knowledges theory, questo capitolo valuta come i disallineamenti culturali fra i clienti indigeni e coloro che lavorano con loro in nome di terapie progettate per migliorare la loro vita, dominino le interazioni interculturali. Così facendo, si pongono le seguenti domande: in che modo le buone intenzioni entrano a far parte dei discorsi e delle pratiche coloniali in corso per gli indigeni australiani, e cosa si può fare per cambiare gli equilibri di potere a favore di terapie rilevanti per gli indigeni?

Biografia autore

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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centrare i popoli indigeni nella pratica della musicoterapia

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