| Description |
xx, 249 pages ; 23 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
Aboriginal Studies Press |
| Contents |
Pt. I. Recognising "populations" and "peoples" -- 1. Recognising "peoples" and "populations" -- Pt. II. Evoking people-hood -- 2. Hasluck and Elkin -- 3. Strehlow damns Coombs -- 4. "The whole Aboriginal problem in microcosm": the South Australian land rights debate of 1966 -- 5. The politics of enumerating the Stolen Generations -- Pt. III. Critical reflections on political capacity -- 6. The changing cultural constitution of the Indigenous sector -- 7. The ambivalence of Helen Hughes -- Pt. IV. Thinking historically about 1967-76 -- 8. "If we are to survive as a people...": Noel Pearson's economic history -- 9. Peter Sutton and the historical roots of suffering -- 10. The Coombs experiment -- Pt. V. The appeal of quantification -- 11. The Australian reconciliation barometer and the Indigenous imaginery |
| Summary |
In the early 1970s, Australian governments began to treat Aborigines and Torres Strait Islander as 'peoples' with capacities for self-government. Forty years later, confidence in Indigenous self-determination has been eroded by accounts of Indigenous pathology, of misplaced policy optimism and of persistent socio-economic 'gaps'. In his new book, Tim Rowse accounts for this shift by arguing that Australian thinking about the 'Indigenous' is a continuing, unresolvable tussle between the idea of 'people' and the idea of 'population'. In Rethinking Social Justice, Rowse offers snapshots of moments in the last forty years in which we can see these tensions: between honouring the heritage and quantifying the disadvantage, between acknowledging colonisation's destruction and projecting Indigenous recovery from it |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
Also available in electronic format in the Ebook Library |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Tertiary/Undergraduate, General |
| Notes |
Also available online |
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© Timothy Rowse 2012 |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Cultural assimilation.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Politics and government.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Reparations.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions.
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Reparations for historical injustices -- Australia.
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Social justice -- Australia.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- Government policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005269
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Australia -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100476
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| Author |
Rowse, Tim, 1951-
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| LC no. |
2012493474 |
| ISBN |
1922059161 (paperback) |
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9781922059161 (paperback) |
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