Experiments in self-determination : histories of the outstation movement in australia / edited by Nicolas Petersen and Fred Myers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peterson, Nicolas, editor.

Myers, Fred R., 1948- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians--Social conditions--20th century.

Aboriginal Australians.

Aboriginal Australians--Social life and customs--20th century.

Community life--Australia.

Community life.

Community organization--Australia.

Community organization.

Aboriginal Australians--Social conditions.

Aboriginal Australians--Social life and customs.

Australia.

Physical Description:

xiv, 368 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Acton, A.C.T. : Anu E Press, 2016.

Contents:

1. The origins and history of outstations as Aboriginal life projects / Fred Myers and Nicolas Peterson

2. From Coombes to Coombs : reflections on the Pitjantjatjara outstation movement / Bill Edwards

3. Returning to country : the Docker River project / Jeremy Long

4. 'Shifting' : the Western Arrernte's outstation movement / Diane Austin-Broos

5. History, memory and the politics of self-determination at an early outstation / Fred Myers

6. The interwoven histories of Mount Liebig and Papunya-Luritja / Sarah Holcombe

7. Out of sight, out of mind, but making the best of it : how outstations have worked in the Ngaanyatjarra lands / David Brooks and Vikki Plant

8. Outstations through art : acrylic painting, self determination and the history of the homelands movement in the Pintupi-Ngaanyatjarra lands / Peter Thorley

9. What was Dr Coombs thinking? Nyirrpi, policy and the future / Nicholas Peterson

10. Homelands as outstations of public policy / Kingsley Palmer

11. Challenging simplistic notions of outstations as manifestations of Aboriginal self-determination : Wik strategic engagement and disengagement over the past four decades / David F Martin and Bruce F Martin

12. Peret : a Cape York Peninsula outstation, 1976-1978 / Peter Sutton

13. People and policy in the development and destruction of Yagga Yagga outstation, Western Australia / Scott Cane

14. Imagining Mumeka : bureaucratic and Kuninjku perspectives / Jon Altman

15. Thwarted aspirations : the political economy of a Yolngu outstation, 1972 to the present / Frances Morphy and Howard Morphy

16. A history of Donydji outstation, north-east Arnhem Land / Neville White.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1925022897

9781925022896

OCLC:

937455268

Publisher Number:

99968013927