Violence in France and Australia : Disorder in the Postcolonial Welfare State.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Browne, Craig.

Contributor:

McGill, Justine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities.

Social problems.

Welfare state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney : Sydney University Press, 2011.

Summary:

Violence in France and Australia: Disorder in the Postcolonial Welfare State examines the racial and ethnic dimensions of forms of marginality and the relationships between the welfare state and the postcolonial background to contemporary violence.

Contents:

Intro

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

1. Violence and the postcolonial welfare state in France and Australia

2. Framing violence: an ethnographic perspective on rioting

3. In the Northern Territory Intervention: what is saved or rescued and at what cost?

4. The state's Intervention in Indigenous affairs in the Northern Territory: governing the Indigenous population through violence, abuse and neglect

5. Colonial violence and postcolonial France

6. The powerlessness of the powerful: riots as counter-violence

7. Violence, identity and the postcolonial French state

8. Violence and disrespect in the French revolt of November 2005

9. The violence of racialisation: the 2005 riots as event

10. Enacting half-positions: creative disrespect in the 2005 French riots

Notes on contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781743328071

1743328079

9781743321034

1743321031

OCLC:

1261367277