Whose place? Lessons from a case study of a guardianship determination for an Australian Indigenous child |
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| Affiliation: | 1. The University of Melbourne, Australia;2. The University of Melbourne and The Royal Children''s Hospital, Australia;3. Wadja Aboriginal Family Place, The Royal Children''s Hospital, Australia;4. Djirra, Australia;1. Fernandes Figueira Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;2. Department of Human Geography, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Canada;1. University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Department of Public Health, Turku, Finland;2. University of Turku and Turku University Hospital; Centre for Population Health Research, Turku, Finland;3. Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of Health Security, Helsinki, Finland;4. University of Turku, Department of Geography and Geology, Turku, Finland;5. University of Helsinki, Clinicum, Faculty of Medicine, Helsinki, Finland;6. Centre de Recherche en Santé Publique (CReSP), Montreal, Canada;7. Ghent University, Department of Movement and Sports Sciences, Gent, Belgium;1. Ryerson University, 350 Victoria St, Toronto ON, M5B 2K3, Canada;2. Brown University, 1 Prospect St, Providence, RI, 02912-9127, USA;3. Harvard University, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA;4. MIT, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA;1. School of Economics and Finance, Xi''an Jiaotong University, 710061, Xi''an, China;2. Institute for Health Care & Public Management, University of Hohenheim, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany;3. IZA, Bonn, Germany;4. Paris School of Economics – CNRS, 75014, Paris, France;5. University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg;1. School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia;2. School of Health & Wellbeing, University of Southern Queensland, lpswich, Queensland, 4305, Australia;3. School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia |
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| Abstract: | Whose values matter when considering which environment is healthier for a child whose guardianship is contested? The biological mother from a remote Australian Aboriginal community, who voluntarily relinquished her but has now requested her return? The foster mother who has cared for her in a metropolitan centre in another State of Australia, thousands of kilometres away? The welfare professionals who also live in that city? Or the child herself, who left her birth home and community five years earlier at the age of two? Drawing on a case study of a seven-year old Aboriginal girl, the authors argue that non-Indigenous values trumped Indigenous values without the realisation of key players who were empowered to make such determinations. The article uses Manuel DeLanda's neo-assemblage theory to consider the range of processes that exert themselves to shape place-values and social identity in colonised nations. It will also draw on Erik Erikson's and Lev Vygotsky's theories of psychosocial development to consider competing sets of values that raised feelings of dissonance within the child. Beliefs about what makes a place health-giving are revealed to be complex in colonised nations. Despite policy and legislative changes to better support Aboriginal people and their right to difference, non-Indigenous professionals can continue to be driven by an unrecognised systemic racism. While place-values are not, of course, the only (or perhaps even the most significant) consideration in guardianship determinations, this article will argue they can play a significant and covert role. |
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| Keywords: | Indigenous Australia Place Health and wellbeing Out-of-home care Assemblage Psycho-social development |
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