tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5929009897479726160.post4590551472354276050..comments2024-01-10T19:25:28.334+11:00Comments on fairgreenplanet: "I am not the problem", plus threats to renewable energy, health cuts ..Val Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04022522407838661280noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5929009897479726160.post-8889376796658041412014-06-26T17:38:32.499+10:002014-06-26T17:38:32.499+10:00Thanks Gary, much appreciated and I am interested ...Thanks Gary, much appreciated and I am interested in your perspective as one who has lived in Alice Springs. I'm very interested in this idea of valuing difference and making space for people to live in different ways. Also of course there is a lot modern industrialised society can learn from Indigenous people's about how to look after and live with our environment rather than see it as something to be used.<br /><br />In health promotion and community development, we often focus on working with "disadvantaged" groups, when I think we should put more effort into challenging the power structures that make some people disadvantaged. And of course finding ways that people can live differently, that aren't unequal and unfair.<br />Thanks again<br />ValVal Kayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04022522407838661280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5929009897479726160.post-30154378011021120412014-06-26T15:43:40.196+10:002014-06-26T15:43:40.196+10:00Hello Kay
Your comment around Rosalie's statem...Hello Kay<br />Your comment around Rosalie's statement on Q&A is sound. It is a matter of perspective. As one who lived in Alice Springs for many years, I would daily see evidence of how the dominant culture would disadvantage central Australian Aboriginal people. That disadvantage was rarely delivered by someone with that outcome in mind, but was from within a framework that no other outcome could be expected. In other words, the non-thinking among us were perpetrators, whether willing or not. Consequently, those who did wish to be oppressors, knew they were licensed to be so. <br />So Rosalie is correct. We often hear of the 'problem', speak of the 'problem', as we strive for some form of assimilation which will favour few. Instead, notwithstanding those principles of fairness and equality, we should be striving for a space in which difference is celebrated and tolerated, if not understood. It will require some deep thinking and courage and leadership to get there, but the current journey has proven messy so many times, that no thinking person could continue to advocate for it. <br />I look forward to reading through your blog as time allows. Your PhD subject intrigues me a lot.<br />Garygfryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05176932690039914524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5929009897479726160.post-80929384353851483602014-06-12T23:29:41.657+10:002014-06-12T23:29:41.657+10:00TestingTestingVal Kayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04022522407838661280noreply@blogger.com