Evolving beyond antiracism: Reflections on the experience of developing a cultural safety curriculum in a tertiary education setting

There is an inextricable link between cultural and clinical safety. In Australia high-profile Aboriginal deaths in custody, publicised institutional racism in health services and the international Black Lives Matter movement have cemented momentum to ensure culturally safe care. However, racism within health professionals and health professional students remains a barrier to increasing the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health professionals. The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Strategy's objective to ‘eliminate racism from the health system’, and the recent adoption of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples led cultural safety definition, has instigated systems level reflections on decolonising practice. This article explores cultural safety as the conceptual antithesis to racism, examining its origins, and contemporary evolution led by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia, including its development in curriculum innovation. The application of cultural safety is explored using in-depth reflection, and the crucial development of integrating critical consciousness theory, as a precursor to culturally safe practice, is discussed. Novel approaches to university curriculum development are needed to facilitate culturally safe and decolonised learning and working environments, including the key considerations of non-Indigenous allyship and collaborative curriculum innovations and initiatives

Private Investment, Public Aid and Endogenous Divergence in the Evolution of Urban Neighborhoods

This paper offers a novel explanation for urban blight and endogenous divergence in the overall quality and wealth of neighborhoods and simultaneously derives the salient features of actual urban renewal and other aid programs from optimizing government behavior based on collective public preferences. These features appear when the objective of such public aid programs is to restore the ex ante distribution of wealth or property values within a blighted neighborhood, while equilibria exhibiting deficient levels of private investment and blight itself can arise when residents accurately anticipate the potential provision of public aid to an affected neighborhood and ex ante investment in private insurance diminishes neighborhood eligibility for such aid. Examples of antipodal equilibria in which urban renewal programs entirely crowd out local private investment or in which neighborhood residents invest in efficient levels of private mitigation illustrate these results, which stand in direct contrast to both traditional explanations of urban blight and to the new “social-interaction” models of neighborhood divergence. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. 2006blight, housing, neighborhood effects, urban renewal,

Application of panel quantile regression and gravity models in exploring the determinants of turkish automotive export industry

This paper purposes to determine potential factors influencing the amount of Turkish automotive industry exports. For this purpose, the available data of 68 major trading partners of Turkey in terms of automotive industry exports were utilized for the sample period 2007-2015. Both panel quantile regression and the gravity model of trade approaches were considered to analyze the relevant data. The empirical findings of this paper revealed that the population and the distance variables were found as statistically significant for all quantiles, while the former has positive and the latter has negative signs as expected. Results also indicated that there was a statistically significant positive correlation between GDP per capita and the amount of Turkish automotive industry exports at 10 and 50% quantiles; however, it was not statistically significant at 90% quantile despite its positive sign. Among Turkey’s exporter countries, being a EU member country dummy variable was found to have a statistically significant positive impact on the amount of automotive industry exports. Real exchange rate was not found as a significant determinant of the amount of automotive industry exports. In the lights of empirical evidence obtained from this study, several recommendations were made for Turkey’s future international trade policies