ISBN:
9781782385387
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
216 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Keywords:
General Anthropology
Abstract:
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.
Description / 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 --
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