Picture 1 of 1

Stock photo

Protests, Land Rights, and Riots: Postcolonial Struggles in Australia in the - Picture 1 of 1

Protests, Land Rights, and Riots : Postcolonial Struggles in Australia in The 1980s by Barry Morris (2014, Hardcover)

AlibrisBooks (451969)

98.5% positive Feedback

Price:

US $160.28

Approximately£120.58

+ $18.26 postage

Estimated delivery Tue, 20 May - Fri, 30 May

Returns:

30 days return. Buyer pays for return postage. If you use an eBay delivery label, it will be deducted from your refund amount.

Condition:

New

New Hard cover

About this product

Product Identifiers

PublisherBerghahn Books, Incorporated

ISBN-101782385371

ISBN-139781782385370

eBay Product ID (ePID)202548419

Product Key Features

Number of Pages216 Pages

Publication NameProtests, Land Rights, and Riots : Postcolonial Struggles in Australia in the 1980s

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2014

SubjectWorld / Australian & Oceanian, Indigenous Peoples, Civil Rights, Indigenous Studies, Political Process / Political Advocacy, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Violence in Society, Australia & New Zealand, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism, Native American, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism

TypeTextbook

AuthorBarry Morris

Subject AreaLaw, Political Science, Social Science, History

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight16.4 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2014-020320

Reviews"Morris deploys the incisive tools of anthropology to deconstruct the way neoliberal policies of the 1980s began to reverse the political gains Australian Aborigines had made in the 1970s...This work is of crucial relevance for thinking beyond the present neoliberal impasse." · Gillian Cowlishaw, Sydney University "Morris reveals the lie underpinning so much recent cant but more sets the situation of Aborigines in the context of larger global forces. This is a much overdue work that should contribute to new understanding and which breaks out of some of the enduring categories that continue to inhibit critical thought." · Bruce Kapferer, University of Bergen "Morris is not afraid to study systemic interrelationships; how history brings together structure and events in ways that might be unique but not random." · Andrew Lattas, University of Bergen, "Morris deploys the incisive tools of anthropology to deconstruct the way neoliberal policies of the 1980s began to reverse the political gains Australian Aborigines had made in the 1970s...This work is of crucial relevance for thinking beyond the present neoliberal impasse." Gillian Cowlishaw, Sydney University "Morris reveals the lie underpinning so much recent cant but more sets the situation of Aborigines in the context of larger global forces. This is a much overdue work that should contribute to new understanding and which breaks out of some of the enduring categories that continue to inhibit critical thought." Bruce Kapferer, University of Bergen "Morris is not afraid to study systemic interrelationships; how history brings together structure and events in ways that might be unique but not random." Andrew Lattas, University of Bergen, "This small compact book was, for me, a most welcome read, especially since there has been something of a downturn in Aboriginal history in the academy more recently... How could such a book be a welcome read? It is a sober and somber read, yes, but one which exposes the lies and mumbo-jumbo of the neoliberal regime and its octopus apparatus, as well as its anxiety and fear, to contextualize and scrutinize its central tenets." · American Historical Review "Morris deploys the incisive tools of anthropology to deconstruct the way neoliberal policies of the 1980s began to reverse the political gains Australian Aborigines had made in the 1970s...This work is of crucial relevance for thinking beyond the present neoliberal impasse." · Gillian Cowlishaw, Sydney University "Morris reveals the lie underpinning so much recent cant but more sets the situation of Aborigines in the context of larger global forces. This is a much overdue work that should contribute to new understanding and which breaks out of some of the enduring categories that continue to inhibit critical thought." · Bruce Kapferer, University of Bergen "Morris is not afraid to study systemic interrelationships; how history brings together structure and events in ways that might be unique but not random." · Andrew Lattas, University of Bergen, "This small compact book was, for me, a most welcome read, especially since there has been something of a downturn in Aboriginal history in the academy more recently... How could such a book be a welcome read? It is a sober and somber read, yes, but one which exposes the lies and mumbo-jumbo of the neoliberal regime and its octopus apparatus, as well as its anxiety and fear, to contextualize and scrutinize its central tenets." American Historical Review "Morris deploys the incisive tools of anthropology to deconstruct the way neoliberal policies of the 1980s began to reverse the political gains Australian Aborigines had made in the 1970s...This work is of crucial relevance for thinking beyond the present neoliberal impasse." Gillian Cowlishaw, Sydney University "Morris reveals the lie underpinning so much recent cant but more sets the situation of Aborigines in the context of larger global forces. This is a much overdue work that should contribute to new understanding and which breaks out of some of the enduring categories that continue to inhibit critical thought." Bruce Kapferer, University of Bergen "Morris is not afraid to study systemic interrelationships; how history brings together structure and events in ways that might be unique but not random." Andrew Lattas, University of Bergen, "Morris deploys the incisive tools of anthropology to deconstruct the way neoliberal policies of the 1980s began to reverse the political gains Australian Aborigines had made in the 1970s...This work is of crucial relevance for thinking beyond the present neoliberal impasse." Gillian Cowlishaw, Sydney University "Morris reveals the lie underpinning so much recent cant but more sets the situation of Aborigines in the context of larger global forces. This is a much overdue work that should contribute to new understanding and which breaks out of some of the enduring categories that continue to inhibit critical thought." Bruce Kapferer, University of Bergen "Morris is not afraid to study systemic interrelationships; how history brings together structure and events in ways that might be unique but not random." Andrew Lattas, University of Bergen

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal333.3089/99150944

Table Of ContentForeword 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

SynopsisThe 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., "Morris deploys the incisive tools of anthropology to deconstruct the way neoliberal policies of the 1980s began to reverse the political gains Australian Aborigines had made in the 1970s...This work is of crucial relevance for thinking beyond the present neoliberal impasse." - Gillian Cowlishaw, Sydney University "Morris reveals the lie underpinning so much recent cant but more sets the situation of Aborigines in the context of larger global forces. This is a much overdue work that should contribute to new understanding and which breaks out of some of the enduring categories that continue to inhibit critical thought." - Bruce Kapferer, University of Bergen "Morris is not afraid to study systemic interrelationships; how history brings together structure and events in ways that might be unique but not random." - Andrew Lattas, University of Bergen 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. 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberDU124.G68M67 2015