Aim To document, analyse and evaluate the Rites of Passage Ball as a means of understanding urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community practices of space-making, directed towards locating, affirming and celebrating young men and woman.
Objectives:
- Describe an existing urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ritual that celebrates the ‘coming of age’ of young Indigenous men and women (Rites of Passage Ball).
- Investigate the impact of ritual upon young Indigenous men’s social and emotional wellbeing and their role(s) within their family and community.
- Examine the expectations of urban Indigenous young men, exploring the varying ways in which they enact and challenge racialised, cultural and gender expectations.
Output(s)
Strengths Based Community Development
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Video
Publisher
Triple A Vision
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Original Inala Boys
Type
Video
Publisher
Triple A Vision
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The Ball
Type
Video
Publisher
Triple A Vision
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A Practitioners' Guide to Strengths Based Community Development: An Inala Wangarra Story
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Book
Publisher
Inala Wangarra
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Rights notice
This guide was written under the intellectual leadership and guidance of Inala Wangarra and their staff in collaboration with researchers at the University of Queensland. The intellectual property of this guide belongs to Inala Wangarra.