Protests, Land Rights, and Riots

Postcolonial Struggles in Australia in the 1980s
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78238-537-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 473 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morris, Barry

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Australische und Pazifische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Albert Bates

Acknowledgments

Map

Introduction

Chapter 1. Crisis of identity: Aboriginal politics, the media and the law

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The Brewarrina riot: a summary

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The media riot

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The trial riot

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Royal Commission and Indigenising crime

Chapter 2. Neoliberalism and Indigenous rights in New South Wales

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The new political order

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Repealing the Aboriginal Land Rights Act

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A post-bureaucratic public service

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Self-sufficiency, not dependency

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The Perkins Report — strategic retreat

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Removing land rights from the postcolonial landscape

Chapter 3. Firm government: state of siege

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Law and order in New South Wales

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Punishing crime

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Law and order in north-western New South Wales

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State of siege

Chapter 4. Postcolonial fantasy and anxiety in the North West

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The North West as contested space

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Policing cultural borderlands

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Postcolonial subjects

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Contingent jurisprudence

Chapter 5. Police testimony and the Brewarrina riot trial

Co-authored with Kerry Zubrinich

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A prosecution account of the riot

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What is a riot?

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Power relations in the courtroom

Chapter 6. Aborigines behaving badly: legal realism and paternalism

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The evidentiary effect of video

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Bodies in pain and paternalism

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Docile bodies and Aborigines behaving badly

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Legal realism and paternalism

Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Morris, Barry
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.

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.