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The key words: Clare Corbould, Hilary Emmett, ‘Settler Colonial Keywords for New Area Studies: Land, Labour, and Language in Mark Twain’s Following the Equator (1897)’, in Clare Corbould, Hilary Emmett, Sarah Garland, Malcolm McLaughlin, Thomas Ruys Smith, John Wills (eds), American Studies in the Age of New Area Studies: Infinite Space, Routledge, 2026 »

Indigenous and at home: Jacek Anderst , Keziah Bennett-Brooka, Tamara Mackean, ‘Flipping the script on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and housing: a call for strengths based discourse in Australian housing research’, International Journal of Housing Policy, 2026

01May26

Abstract: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are deeply connected to the lands, seas and skies across the settler-colonial state of Australia. They take strength from ongoing connection to culture, spirituality and community. Colonisation impacts these life-giving connections through the dispossession of peoples from Country and disconnection from community and culture. These ongoing colonial processes negatively impact Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s access to quality housing and are the source of housing precarity. Housing research often portrays Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s housing experiences within deficit discourse. Deficit discourse causes harm in its problematisation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are reduced to characterisations such as ‘the Indigenous housing problem’. Strengths-based discourse, now regularly applied in health, can address this harm by centring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s cultures, knowledges and priorities, and appropriately contextualising experiences within settler colonialism. Aboriginal health researchers have for two decades pushed for strengths-based discourse, leading to shifts in health policy, such as the call to eradicate systemic racism. There is an opportunity to similarly flip the script in housing research to centre Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s existing strengths, capabilities and community-led housing solutions and positively influence housing policy.


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