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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462276503321
• Autore: Rowse Tim <1951->
• 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...

Kea, bird of paradox [[electronic resource] ] : the evolution and behavior of a New Zealand parrot / / Judy Diamond and Alan B. Bond

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778079503321
• Autore: Diamond Judy
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1999
• ISBN: 1-282-35618-6; 9786612356186; 0-520-92080-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BondAlan B. <1946->
• Disciplina: 598.7/1
• Soggetti: Kea - Evolution; Kea - Behavior
• 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 (p. 201-222) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Moa's Legacy -- 2. From Relict to Renegade -- 3. Hanging Out with the Gang -- 4. Growing and Learning -- 5. The Prince and the Pauper -- 6. From Bounties to Black Markets -- Appendix A: List of Common and Scientific Names -- Appendix B: Supplementary Tables -- Notes -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The kea, a crow-sized parrot that lives in the rugged mountains of New Zealand, is considered by some a playful comic and by others a vicious killer. Its true character is a mystery that biologists have debated for more than a century. Judy Diamond and Alan Bond have written a comprehensive account of the kea's contradictory nature, and their conclusions cast new light on the origins of behavioral flexibility and the problem of species survival in human environments everywhere.New Zealand's geological remoteness has made the country home to a ; bizarre assemblage of plants and animals that are wholly unlike anything found elsewhere. Keas are native only to the South Island, breeding high in the rigorous, unforgiving environment of the Southern Alps. Bold, curious, and ingeniously destructive, keas have a complex social system that includes extensive play behavior. Like coyotes, crows, and humans, keas are "open-program" animals with an unusual ability to learn and to create new solutions to whatever problems they encounter.Diamond and Bond present the kea's story from historical and contemporary perspectives and include observations from their years of field work. A comparison of the kea's behavior and ecology with that of its closest relative, the kaka of New Zealand's lowland rain forests, yields insights into the origins of the kea's extraordinary adaptability. The authors conclude that the kea's high level of sociality is a key factor in the flexible lifestyle that probably evolved in response to the alpine habitat's unreliable food resources and has allowed the bird to survive the extermination of much of its original ecosystem. But adaptability has its limits, as the authors make clear when describing present-day interactions between keas and humans and the attempts to achieve a peaceful coexistence.