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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.