Protests, land rights and riots : postcolonial struggles in Australia in the 1980s /: postcolonial struggles in Australia in the 1980s. (2014)
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- Title:
- Protests, land rights and riots : postcolonial struggles in Australia in the 1980s /: postcolonial struggles in Australia in the 1980s. (2014)
- Main Title:
- Protests, land rights and riots : postcolonial struggles in Australia in the 1980s
- Further Information:
- Note: Barry Morris.
- Authors:
- Morris, Barry
- Contents:
- Foreword; Albert Bates Acknowledgments; Map Introduction Chapter 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 Chapter 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 Chapter 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 Chapter 4. Postcolonial fantasy and anxiety in the North West The North West as contested space Policing cultural borderlands Postcolonial subjects Contingent jurisprudence Chapter 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 Chapter 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 Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- New York : Berghahn Books
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 333.308999150944
Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History -- 20th century
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History -- 20th century
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
Postcolonialism -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History -- 20th century
New South Wales -- Politics and government -- 20th century - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781782385387
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781782385370
- Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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