1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462276503321

Autore

Rowse Tim <1951->

Titolo

Rethinking social justice : from 'peoples' to 'populations' / / Tim Rowse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Canberra, Australia : , : Aboriginal Studies Press, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-922059-17-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Aboriginal Studies Press

Disciplina

994.230049915

Soggetti

Aboriginal Australians - Cultural assimilation

Aboriginal Australians - Social conditions

Social justice - Australia

Reparations for historical injustices - Australia

Electronic books.

Australia Government policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; About the Author; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acronyms & Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I - Recognising 'populations' and 'peoples'; 1. Recognising 'peoples' and 'populations'; Part II - Evoking people-hood; 2. Hasluck and Elkin; 3. Strehlow damns Coombs; 4. The South Australian land rights debate of 1966; 5. The politics of enumerating the Stolen Generations; Part III - Critical reflections on political capacity; 6. The changing cultural constitution of the Indigenous sector; 7. The ambivalence of Helen Hughes; Part IV - Thinking historically about 1967-76

8. Noel Pearson's economic history 9. Peter Sutton and the historical roots of suffering; 10. The Coombs experiment; Part V - The appeal of quantification; 11. The Australian Reconciliation Barometer; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the early 1970's, Australian governments began to treat Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders as ""peoples"" with capacities for self-government. Forty years later, confidence in Indigenous self-determination has been eroded by accounts of Indigenous pathology, misplaced policy optimism, and persistent socio-economic gaps. This



record accounts for this shift by arguing that Australian thinking about the Indigenous is a continuing, unresolvable tussle between the ideas of ""peoples"" and ""population."" Offering snapshots of moments in the last 40 years in these tensions are palpable - from...

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910141333103321

Autore

Wheeler Ward

Titolo

Systematics : a course of lectures / / Ward C. Wheeler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester [England] ; ; Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012

ISBN

1-118-30111-0

1-280-58744-X

9786613617279

1-118-30109-9

1-118-30108-0

1-118-30110-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (460 p.)

Disciplina

570

578.012

Soggetti

Biology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Fundamentals -- pt. 2. Homology -- pt. 3. Optimality criteria -- pt. 4. Trees -- pt. 5. Applications.

Sommario/riassunto

Systematics: A Course of Lectures is designed for use in an advanced undergraduate or introductory graduate level course in systematics and is meant to present core systematic concepts and literature. The book covers topics such as the history of systematic thinking and fundamental concepts in the field including species concepts, homology, and hypothesis testing. Analytical methods are covered in detail with chapters devoted to sequence alignment, optimality criteria, and methods such as distance, parsimony, maximum likelihood and



Bayesian approaches. Trees and tree searching, consensu