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

Author/creator Morris, Barry
Other author/creatorAustralian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoNew York : Berghahn Books, 2015.
Descriptionxii, 204 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Aboriginal Australians--Government relations --Australia --New South Wales --History --20th century.
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of--Australia --New South Wales --History --20th century.
Aboriginal Australians--Land tenure --Australia --New South Wales --History --20th century.
Aboriginal Australians--Civil rights --Australia --New South Wales --History --20th century.
Protest movements--Australia --New South Wales --History --20th century.
Riots--Australia --New South Wales --History --20th century.
Postcolonialism--Australia --New South Wales --History --20th century.
Neoliberalism--Australia --New South Wales --History --20th century.
New South Wales--Race relations --History --20th century.
New South Wales--Politics and government --20th century.
Uniform titleProtest, land rights and riots
Contents 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- The 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 -- The evidentiary effect of video -- Bodies in pain and paternalism -- Docile bodies and Aborigines behaving badly -- Legal realism and paternalism.
General note"This version of Protest, land rights and riots is published in arrangement with the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies"--Title page verso.
General notePreviously published: Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2013.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references(pages 191-200) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2014020320
ISBN9781782385370 (hardback : alkaline paper)

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