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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820174003321

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

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...