Stalking Aboriginal culture: the Wanda Koolmatrie affair

Accountability and Aboriginal Culture

Culture-based literacy and Aboriginal health.

This is a summary report of the Aboriginal content of the Language and Culture theme at the Canadian Public Health Association's Second Canadian Conference on Literacy and Health. Our key premise is that Indigenous conceptualizations of literacy need to build on Indigenous understandings and perspectives. We support this premise through a review of the relevant literature in the disciplines of ...

Aboriginal surfing: reinstating culture and country

Mainstream surfing in Australia is a discursive cultural practice, institutionally sanctioned as integral to national identity. Surfing represents the nation through a mode of white heterosexual orientation that is encoded into its practices and its texts. Surfing represents an historical transformation in the national psyche from the bush, inaugurated by the nation’s literary canon, to the bea...

The Alder Hey affair.

Stalking: The elusive crime

Stalking has been labelled ‘the crime of the nineties’ (e.g. Goode, 1995). Yet despite international media interest there has been surprisingly little research carried out on the phenomenon. Much of the literature that does exist takes a discursive form, focuses on the pursuit of celebrities and other public Ž gures (Dietz et al., 1991; Fein & Vossekuil, 1998) or attempts to form typologies of ...