Rethinking Social Justice From Peoples To Populations

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press
Publisher Place: Canberra
Publisher Year: 2012
Edition: First Edition

Description: 249 pages. Ex-Library. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In the early 1970s, Australian governments began to treat Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders as “peoples with capacities for self-government. Forty years later, confidence in Indigenous self-determination has been eroded by accounts of Indigenous pathology, misplaced policy optimism, and persistent socio-economic gaps. This record accounts for this shift by arguing that Australian thinking about the Indigenous is a continuing, unresolvable tussle between the ideas of “peoples and “population. Offering snapshots of moments in the last 40 years in these tensions are palpablefrom honoring the heritage and quantifying the disadvantage to acknowledging colonizations destruction and projecting Indigenous recovery from itthis book not only asks if a settler colonial state can instruct the colonized in the arts of self-government, but also how could it justify doing anything less.

ISBN: 9781922059161