Black to the Future: Making the Case for Indigenist Health Humanities

Chelsea Watego, Lisa J. Whop, David Singh, Bryan Mukandi, Alissa Macoun, George Newhouse, Ali Drummond, Amy McQuire, Janet Stajic, Helena Kajlich and Mark Brough
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Chelsea Watego: School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane 4059, Australia
Lisa J. Whop: National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra 2601, Australia
David Singh: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, The University of Queensland, Brisbane 4067, Australia
Bryan Mukandi: School of Languages and Cultures, The University of Queensland, Brisbane 4067, Australia
Alissa Macoun: School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane 4000, Australia
George Newhouse: Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University, Sydney 2109, Australia
Ali Drummond: School of Nursing, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane 4059, Australia
Amy McQuire: School of Political Science and International Studies, The University of Queensland, Brisbane 4067, Australia
Janet Stajic: Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane 4067, Australia
Helena Kajlich: School of Political Science and International Studies, The University of Queensland, Brisbane 4067, Australia
Mark Brough: School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane 4059, Australia

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 16, 1-10

Abstract: This paper outlines the development of Indigenist Health Humanities as a new and innovative field of research building an intellectual collective capable of bridging the knowledge gap that hinders current efforts to close the gap in Indigenous health inequality. Bringing together health and the humanities through the particularity of Indigenous scholarship, a deeper understanding of the human experience of health will be developed alongside a greater understanding of the enablers to building a transdisciplinary collective of Indigenist researchers. The potential benefits include a more sustainable, relational, and ethical approach to advancing new knowledge, and health outcomes, for Indigenous people in its fullest sense.

Keywords: Indigenous; humanities; race; sovereignty; health; justice; Indigenist; transdisciplinarity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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