Protest, land rights and riots : postcolonial struggles in Australia in the 1980s / Barry Morris.
Protest, land rights and riots : postcolonial struggles in Australia in the 1980s / Barry Morris.
Protest, land rights and riots : postcolonial struggles in Australia in the 1980s / Barry Morris.
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Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2013.
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English
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1 online resource (311 p.)
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text
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computer
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online resource
Contents
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Foreword; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 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: Neoli...
Chapter 3: Firm government: state of siegeLaw 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 s...
Bodies in pain and paternalismDocile bodies and Aborigines behaving badly; Legal realism and paternalism; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2013.
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2013.
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The 1970s was a period of unprecedented political agency and legislative change in Aboriginal people's struggles for the recognition of postcolonial rights. What is significant is that they didn't just seek rights to be granted to them, but for some measure of rights to be restored to them. Against this background, rural communities where large Abo...
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Protest, land rights and riots : postcolonial struggles in Australia in the 1980s / Barry Morris.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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74VK3ekRJXJy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK3ekRJXJy
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ISBN
1-922059-35-8
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305.42 305.420994
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991023937100202626
