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Protests, land rights and riots : postcolonial struggles in Australia in the 1980s / Barry Morris.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morris, Barry, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aboriginal Australians--Government relations--Australia--New South Wales--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.
- New South Wales--Race relations--History--20th century.
- New South Wales.
- New South Wales--Politics and government--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (216 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, [New York] ; Oxford, [England] : berghahn, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The 1970s saw the Aboriginal people of Australia struggle for recognition of their postcolonial rights. Rural communities, where large Aboriginal populations lived, were provoked as a consequence of social fragmentation, unparalleled unemployment, and other major economic and political changes. The ensuing riots, protests, and law-and-order campaigns in New South Wales captured the tense relations that existed between indigenous people, the police, and the criminal justice system. In Protests, Land Rights, and Riots, Barry Morris shows how neoliberal policies in Australia targeted those who w
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Map""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1""; ""Chapter 2""; ""Chapter 3""; ""Chapter 4""; ""Chapter 5""; ""Chapter 6""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781782385387
- 178238538X
- OCLC:
- 896855030
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