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Indigenous engagement with modernity: domestic water supply, risk and reflexive modernization

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Eileen M Willis at Flinders University
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Meryl Pearce at James Cook University
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... The pride and confidence held by the youth for the water treatment plant is an interesting finding. Other research has noted that many people living on reserves are sceptical or critical of water technology as a result of failed interventions and long-term bottled water usage (Willis et al. 2006;Aikenhead and Ogawa 2007;Dupont et al. 2014;Hanrahan et al. 2014). There is often a lack of trust for tap water among First Nation peoples in Canada due to frequent and long-term boil water advisories and the implications of chemical water treatment and related by-products, as well as the risk of transmission of communicable diseases (Hanrahan 2003;Patrick 2011). ...
Perspectives of water and health using Photovoice with youths living on reserve: Water and health with on-reserve youth
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Key Messages We facilitated an opportunity for on‐reserve youth to share perspectives on water and health. Aesthetics, pollution, technological treatment, and the ubiquitous need for water emerged from the Postervoice methodology. Encouraging youth to be involved in lateral exchanges to control their collective future by protecting resources contributes to cultural resilience.
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