Protests, Land Rights, and Riots : : Postcolonial Struggles in Australia in the 1980s / / Barry Morris.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Map
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Crisis of identity: Aboriginal politics, the media and the law
  • Chapter 2. Neoliberalism and Indigenous rights in New South Wales
  • Chapter 3. Firm government: state of siege
  • Chapter 4. Postcolonial fantasy and anxiety in the North West
  • Chapter 5. Police testimony and the Brewarrina riot trial
  • Chapter 6. Aborigines behaving badly: legal realism and paternalism
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index