[Anthropgrad] CAEPR Seminar: Lisa Slater: Indigenous cultural festivals and wellbeing; 24 SEPT 12.30-2PM

[Katarina Ferro]

CAEPR Seminar; September 24; 12.30-2pm
AD Hope Bdg; Humanities Conference Rm

'Yo, turn around and look at Yolngu people, we are here': Indigenous 
cultural festivals and wellbeing

—Lisa Slater (Research Fellow, Globalism Research Centre, RMIT)

*Abstract:* This paper is a part of a larger ARC Linkage project, with 
the Telstra Foundation, that examines the immediate and longer-term 
impacts of selected Indigenous festivals on community wellbeing. In 
recent years wellbeing is a concept that has gained salience and 
urgency, indeed it has become standard currency in economic and 
political models of welfare and development. Concerns have been 
expressed about the indicators of wellbeing and the lack of recongnition 
that notions of health and wellbeing and socio-economic inclusion and 
exclusion are culturally constructed. The Globalism Research Centre's 
previous research on wellbeing in Victoria concluded that social 
inclusion is a crucial wellbeing factor, and that public celebrations 
and festivals are one way social policy-makers can support social 
inclusion. The current project focuses on Indigenous festivals and 
examines if and how they make a difference to the wellbeing of 
Indigenous young people and their communities. This seminar will present 
the preliminary findings of the research, and in so doing, will examine 
the discourse of wellbeing, and ask what role do these social spaces 
play in supporting or enabling wellbeing and what might festivals tell 
us about what makes for a 'good life'?


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