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



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Autore: Rowse Tim <1951-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Rethinking social justice : from 'peoples' to 'populations' / / Tim Rowse Visualizza cluster
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
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-922059-17-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910785983903321
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