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Understanding camp dogs: the relationship between Aboriginal culture and western welfare
AlterNative, Vol.19(2), pp.293-302
2023
Abstract
This article examines how rising concern for animal welfare in Australia is manifested in increased media coverage of these topics, including growing coverage of animal sentience, rights, and welfare. In Australia, canine existence is often determined by their positioning within cultural frames. Dogs have been integral to Aboriginal social, family, and environmental relationships for generations; however, colonisation brought fundamental changes to these established relationships, with ramifications that have prompted welfare concerns about camp dog populations. The goal of this article is to review existing research discourses and epistemological positioning of the supposed camp dog problem. We are not assessing individual programmes or reporting on fieldwork conducted with communities. Instead, this initial paper reviews some of the current literature to identify ways forward in facilitating Aboriginal self-determining of camp dog interactions in communities.
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- Title
- Understanding camp dogs: the relationship between Aboriginal culture and western welfare
- Authors
- Bindi Bennett (Corresponding Author) - Federation UniversityClare Archer-Lean (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre - Legacy
- Publication details
- AlterNative, Vol.19(2), pp.293-302
- Publisher
- Sage Publications Ltd.
- Date published
- 2023
- DOI
- 10.1177/11771801231167671
- ISSN
- 1174-1740; 1177-1801
- Copyright note
- © The Author(s) 2023. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Lficense (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries; Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99720598402621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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