2022 Seminars
Moving forward while looking back: Exploring reconciliation pathways through Indigenous knowledge-sharing in tourism
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Presentation Type
Presentation
Location
NDB11/L13 The University of Notre Dame Australia, Broome Campus
Recording now available to view
Start Date
5-10-2022 12:30 PM
Description
Across Australia, tourism is one context where Indigenous people can be recognised as knowledge-holders and where Indigenous cultures can be celebrated. Indigenous tourism engagement offers the possibility of addressing pervasive gaps in community understandings of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, places and histories. These gaps can be traced back to deficits within the Australian education system. To explore the role of Indigenous tourism as a ‘social force’, Nicole spent time with Aboriginal tourism operators and their visitors across Western Australia and the Northern Territory. As a non-Indigenous researcher, she was supported by an Aboriginal reference network and adopted critical Indigenous and constructivist grounded theory methodologies. This structured yet flexible methodological approach allowed Nicole to be guided by the thoughts and concerns of the Aboriginal tourism operators who shared their stories with her. Through this presentation, Nicole will be presenting a strengths-based model of sustainable tourism. This ‘ground up’ model was developed by collaborating with Aboriginal tourism operators and privileging their perspectives. This model describes host and visitor movements towards, within and away from the ‘arena of Indigenous tourism’. Here, opportunities for transforming visitors’ frames of reference arise, with reflexivity seen as vital for ongoing learning. Through this presentation, Nicole will describe her research process, present her emerging findings and discuss the implications of her project for cultural competency and the processes and goals of reconciliation.
Recommended Citation
Curtin, Nicole, "Moving forward while looking back: Exploring reconciliation pathways through Indigenous knowledge-sharing in tourism" (2022). Talking Heads Seminar Series. 14.
https://researchonline.nd.edu.au/nulungu_talkingheads/2022/schedule/14
Moving forward while looking back: Exploring reconciliation pathways through Indigenous knowledge-sharing in tourism
NDB11/L13 The University of Notre Dame Australia, Broome Campus
Recording now available to view
Across Australia, tourism is one context where Indigenous people can be recognised as knowledge-holders and where Indigenous cultures can be celebrated. Indigenous tourism engagement offers the possibility of addressing pervasive gaps in community understandings of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, places and histories. These gaps can be traced back to deficits within the Australian education system. To explore the role of Indigenous tourism as a ‘social force’, Nicole spent time with Aboriginal tourism operators and their visitors across Western Australia and the Northern Territory. As a non-Indigenous researcher, she was supported by an Aboriginal reference network and adopted critical Indigenous and constructivist grounded theory methodologies. This structured yet flexible methodological approach allowed Nicole to be guided by the thoughts and concerns of the Aboriginal tourism operators who shared their stories with her. Through this presentation, Nicole will be presenting a strengths-based model of sustainable tourism. This ‘ground up’ model was developed by collaborating with Aboriginal tourism operators and privileging their perspectives. This model describes host and visitor movements towards, within and away from the ‘arena of Indigenous tourism’. Here, opportunities for transforming visitors’ frames of reference arise, with reflexivity seen as vital for ongoing learning. Through this presentation, Nicole will describe her research process, present her emerging findings and discuss the implications of her project for cultural competency and the processes and goals of reconciliation.
