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Lucinda Aberdeen

Researcher at La Trobe University

Publications -  13
Citations -  327

Lucinda Aberdeen is an academic researcher from La Trobe University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Indigenous & Politics. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 12 publications receiving 304 citations. Previous affiliations of Lucinda Aberdeen include University of the Sunshine Coast.

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Tourism impacts on an Australian indigenous community: a Djabugay case study.

TL;DR: The benefits of tourism identified by this study included revival of Djabugay culture, employment opportunities, working together with other Djabungay community members, increased cross-cultural understanding, and improved material welfare as mentioned in this paper.
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Challenges for Australian sociology Critical ageing research – ageing well?

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explain why the critical social gerontology movement has not taken root in Australia through an historical analysis of ageing research in Australia and demonstrate the rewards of critical analysis through new research into the discourses of positive ageing.
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Sensitivity to cultural difference in tourism research: contingency in research design

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the process of devising a research design to investigate tourism and an Australian indigenous group, the Djabugay, and demonstrate the mutual benefits that can arise in a context of cultural difference.
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Post-school aspirations in regional Australia: an examination of the role of cultural and social capital

TL;DR: This paper examined the associations between access to various forms of social capital and aspirations for post-school study and employment, focusing on parent-derived social capital, discussions with parents; student-derived Social capital, participation in extracurricular activities and peer-derived socially capital, aspirations of their friends, and explored how measures of Social capital can be used to critically make sense and engage with the post school aspirations of young people in the increasingly precarious landscape of youth employment in the twenty-first century.