"Jimbin Kaboo Yimardoowarra Marninil" - listening to Nyikina women's voices, from the inside to the outside. Nyikina women's agency: an intergenerational journey of cultural actions, economic, and self-determination initiatives, through film.

Abstract

Magali McDuffie's PhD privileges the voices of Nyikina women, and looks at how they have influenced cultural actions, economic and self-determination initiatives, through filmed interviews and narratives. Collaborative films are used as part of a participatory, emancipatory and strongly Indigenist research design. Through a Foucauldian deconstruction of the dominant Western discourses that have underpinned Nyikina women's lived experiences, Magali McDuffie seeks to empower the women in their constantly evolving social and political roles, examining their agency and their community development aspirations in an increasingly neo-colonial global context. Magali deconstructs historical and historiographical discourses, anthropological data, legislative policies, development theory, as well as international Indigenous literature on agency, governance, and development, reflecting on the Nyikina women's continued involvement on the local, national, and international stage, and the significance of Booroo, Country, in a global development context.