Buch, Englisch, 269 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 446 g
From Rations to Citizenship in Central Australia
Buch, Englisch, 269 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 446 g
ISBN: 978-0-521-52327-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
The colonial practice of rationing goods to Aboriginal people has been neglected in the study of Australian frontiers. This book argues that much of the colonial experience in Central Australia can be understood by seeing rationing as a fundamental, though flexible, instrument of colonial government. Rationing was the material basis for a variety of colonial ventures: scientific, evangelical, pastoral and the post-war program of 'assimilation'. Combining history and anthropology in a cultural study of rationing, this book develops a new narrative of the colonisation of Central Australia. Two arguments underpin this story: that the colonists were puzzled by the motives of the Indigenous recipients; and that they were highly inventive in the meanings and moral foundations they ascribed to the rationing relationship. This study goes to the heart of contemporary reflections on the nature of Indigenous 'citizenship'.
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Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Australische und Pazifische Geschichte
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
Weitere Infos & Material
theatre of stages; Part I: 1. Rationing the inexplicable; 2. Rationed actors; Part II: 3. Rural central Australia, 1914-40; 4. Town, cash and supervision; 5. 'A Christian cannot be a parasite'; 6. The World War in town and hinterland; Conclusion: Indigenous welfare at mid-century; Part III: 7. 'Assimilation; 8. The crisis of managed consumption; 9. Settlements and families; 10. Alice Springs and its town camps; Continuities.
