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Autore: | Rowse Tim <1951-> |
Titolo: | Rethinking social justice : from 'peoples' to 'populations' / / Tim Rowse |
Pubblicazione: | Canberra, Australia : , : Aboriginal Studies Press, , 2012 |
©2012 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
Disciplina: | 994.230049915 |
Soggetto topico: | Aboriginal Australians - Cultural assimilation |
Aboriginal Australians - Social conditions | |
Social justice - Australia | |
Reparations for historical injustices - Australia | |
Soggetto geografico: | Australia Government policy |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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... |
Titolo autorizzato: | Rethinking social justice |
ISBN: | 1-922059-17-X |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910462276503321 |
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