Trapped in the gap : doing good in Indigenous Australia / / Emma Kowal
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| Autore: |
Kowal Emma
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| Titolo: |
Trapped in the gap : doing good in Indigenous Australia / / Emma Kowal
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : berghahn, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (214 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 362.84 |
| 362.84/9915 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Aboriginal Australians - Social conditions - 21st century |
| Aboriginal Australians - Services for | |
| Aboriginal Australians - Ethnic identity | |
| White people - Australia - Attitudes | |
| Race awareness - Australia | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Australia Race relations |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Chapter 1 Studying 'Good' ; Chapter 2 The Culture of White Anti-racism ; Chapter 3 Tiwi 'Long Grassers' ; Chapter 4 Welcome to Country ; Chapter 5 Mutual Recognition ; Chapter 6 White Stigma ; Conclusion; References; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In Australia, a 'tribe' of white, middle-class, progressive professionals is actively working to improve the lives of Indigenous people. This book explores what happens when well-meaning people, supported by the state, attempt to help without harming. 'White anti-racists' find themselves trapped by endless ambiguities, contradictions, and double binds -- a microcosm of the broader dilemmas of postcolonial societies. These dilemmas are fueled by tension between the twin desires of equality and difference: to make Indigenous people statistically the same as non-Indigenous people (to 'close the gap') while simultaneously maintaining their 'cultural' distinctiveness. This tension lies at the heart of failed development efforts in Indigenous communities, ethnic minority populations and the global South. This book explains why doing good is so hard, and how it could be done differently. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Trapped in the gap |
| ISBN: | 1-78238-604-1 |
| 1-78238-600-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910788191803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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