Intra‐Action in a Central Australian Community Development Project.
Service providers commonly understand development projects in Indigenous Australia to play out at the intersection of a pre‐existing binary between Indigenous and non‐Indigenous groups. It follows that effective development practice is seen to depend on building partnerships across the 'intercultura...
| Publicado en: | Oceania Vol. 92; no. 2; pp. 195 - 213 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jul2022
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