Protests, Land Rights, and Riots: Postcolonial Struggles in Australia in the 1980's

Morris, Barry

 
9781782385370: Protests, Land Rights, and Riots: Postcolonial Struggles in Australia in the 1980's
ISBN 10 : 1782385371 ISBN 13 : 9781782385370
Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2014

Synopsis

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 were least integrated socially and culturally, and who enjoyed fewer legitimate economic opportunities. Amidst intense political debate, struggle, and conflict, new forces were unleashed as a post-settler colonial state grappled with its past. Morris provides a social analysis of the ensuing effects of neoliberal policy and the way indigenous rights were subsequently undermined by this emerging new political orthodoxy in the 1990s.

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À propos de l?auteur

Barry Morris is the author of Domesticating Resistance, Race Matters and Expert Knowledge. He is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Newcastle.

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Éditeur
Berghahn Books
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1782385371
ISBN 13 
9781782385370
Reliure
Belle reliure
Nombre de pages
216
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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