Overview

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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Author:   Barry Morris
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.463kg
ISBN:  

9781782385370

ISBN 10:   1782385371
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   01 December 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of 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

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

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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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