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Author Morris, Barry, 1938- author.

Title Protests, land rights and riots : postcolonial struggles in Australia in the 1980s / Barry Morris.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (204 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Foreword / Albert Bates -- Introduction -- 1. Crisis of identity: Aboriginal politics, the media and the law -- Brewarrina riot: a summary -- Media riot -- Trial riot -- Royal Commission and Indigenising crime -- 2. Neoliberalism and Indigenous rights in New South Wales -- New political order -- Repealing the Aboriginal Land Rights Act -- A post-bureaucratic public service -- Self-sufficiency, not dependency -- Perkins Report -- strategic retreat -- Removing land rights from the postcolonial landscape -- 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 -- 4. Postcolonial fantasy and anxiety in the North West -- North West as contested space -- Policing cultural borderlands -- Postcolonial subjects -- Contingent jurisprudence -- 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 -- 6. Aborigines behaving badly: legal realism and paternalism -- Evidentiary effect of video -- Bodies in pain and paternalism -- Docile bodies and Aborigines behaving badly -- Legal realism and paternalism.
Summary 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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Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Government relations -- History -- 20th century.
Aboriginal Australians.
Australia.
New South Wales.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History -- 20th century.
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of.
Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History -- 20th century.
Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure.
Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History -- 20th century.
Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights.
Protest movements -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History -- 20th century.
Protest movements.
Postcolonialism -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History -- 20th century.
Postcolonialism.
New South Wales -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9781782385370
ISBN 9781782385387 (electronic book)
178238538X (electronic book)
9781782385370 hardback