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Protests, land rights and riots : postcolonial struggles in Australia in the 1980s / Barry Morris.
Van Pelt Library DU124.G68 M67 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morris, Barry, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Protest, land rights and riots
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aboriginal Australians--Australia--New South Wales--Government relations--History--20th century.
- Aboriginal Australians.
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of--Australia--New South Wales--History--20th century.
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of.
- Aboriginal Australians--Land tenure--Australia--New South Wales--History--20th century.
- Aboriginal Australians--Civil rights--Australia--New South Wales--History--20th century.
- Protest movements--Australia--New South Wales--History--20th century.
- Protest movements.
- Riots--Australia--New South Wales--History--20th century.
- Riots.
- Postcolonialism--Australia--New South Wales--History--20th century.
- Postcolonialism.
- Neoliberalism--Australia--New South Wales--History--20th century.
- Neoliberalism.
- Politics and government.
- Race relations.
- History.
- Aboriginal Australians--Civil rights.
- Aboriginal Australians--Land tenure.
- New South Wales--Race relations--History--20th century.
- New South Wales.
- New South Wales--Politics and government--20th century.
- Aboriginal Australians--Government relations.
- Political science.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 204 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, [2015]
- Contents:
- 1. Crisis of identity : Aboriginal politics, the media and the law
- The Brewarrina riot : a summary
- The media riot
- The trial riot
- Royal Commission and indigenising crime
- 2. Neoliberalism and indigenous rights in New South Wales
- The new political order
- Repealing the Aboriginal Land Rights Act
- A post-bureaucratic public service
- Self-sufficiency, not dependency
- The Perkins report : strategic retreat
- Removing land rights from the postcolonial landscape
- 3. Firm government : state of siege
- Law and order in New South Wales
- Punishing crime
- Law and order in north-western New South Wales
- State of siege
- 4. Postcolonial fantasy and anxiety in the north west
- The north west as contested space
- Policing cultural borderlands
- Postcolonial subjects
- Contingent jurisprudence
- 5. Police testimony and the Brewarrina riot trial (co-authored with Kerry Zubrinich)
- A prosecution account of the riot
- What is a riot?
- Power relations in the courtroom
- 6. Aborigines behaving badly : legal realism and paternalism
- The evidentiary effect of video
- Bodies in pain and paternalism
- Docile bodies and Aborigines behaving badly
- Legal realism and paternalism.
- Notes:
- "This version of Protest, land rights and riots is published in arrangement with the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies"--Title page verso.
- Previously published: Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2013.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781782385370
- 1782385371
- OCLC:
- 881469408
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