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Protests, land rights and riots : postcolonial struggles in Australia in the 1980s /

The 1970s saw the Aboriginal people of Australia struggle for recognition of their postcolonial rights. Rural communities, where large Aboriginal populations lived, were provoked as a consequence of social fragmentation, unparalleled unemployment, and other major economic and political changes. The...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morris, Barry (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Albert Bates
  • Introduction
  • 1. Crisis of identity: Aboriginal politics, the media and the law
  • The Brewarrina riot: a summary
  • The media riot
  • The trial riot
  • Royal Commission and Indigenising crime
  • 2. Neoliberalism and Indigenous rights in New South Wales
  • The new political order
  • Repealing the Aboriginal Land Rights Act
  • A post-bureaucratic public service
  • Self-sufficiency, not dependency
  • The Perkins Report
  • strategic retreat
  • Removing land rights from the postcolonial landscape
  • 3. Firm government: state of siege
  • Law and order in New South Wales
  • Punishing crime
  • Law and order in north-western New South Wales
  • State of siege
  • 4. Postcolonial fantasy and anxiety in the North West
  • The North West as contested space
  • Policing cultural borderlands
  • Postcolonial subjects
  • Contingent jurisprudence
  • 5. Police testimony and the Brewarrina riot trial> / Co-authored with Kerry Zubrinich
  • A prosecution account of the riot
  • What is a riot?
  • Power relations in the courtroom
  • 6. Aborigines behaving badly: legal realism and paternalism
  • The evidentiary effect of video
  • Bodies in pain and paternalism
  • Docile bodies and Aborigines behaving badly
  • Legal realism and paternalism.