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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.
Contributor:
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, issuing body.
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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