Protests, land rights and riots
Subtitle: postcolonial struggles in Australia in the 1980s
By: Barry Morris
Contributors: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781782385370; 9781782385387
Subjects: Aboriginal Australians; Government relations; History; Treatment of Aboriginal Australians; Land tenure; Civil rights; Protest movements; Riots; Postcolonialism; Neoliberalism; Race relations; Politics and government
Work titles: Protest, land rights and riots
Notes: "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.

Previously published: Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references(pages 191-200) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Crisis of identity : Aboriginal politics, the media and the law; title: The Brewarrina riot : a summary; title: The media riot; title: The trial riot; title: Royal Commission and indigenising crime; title: 2. Neoliberalism and indigenous rights in New South Wales; title: The new political order; title: Repealing the Aboriginal Land Rights Act; title: A post-bureaucratic public service; title: Self-sufficiency, not dependency; title: The Perkins report : strategic retreat; title: Removing land rights from the postcolonial landscape; title: 3. Firm government : state of siege; title: Law and order in New South Wales; title: Punishing crime; title: Law and order in north-western New South Wales; title: State of siege; title: 4. Postcolonial fantasy and anxiety in the north west; title: The north west as contested space; title: Policing cultural borderlands; title: Postcolonial subjects; title: Contingent jurisprudence; title: 5. Police testimony and the Brewarrina riot trial (co-authored with Kerry Zubrinich); title: A prosecution account of the riot; title: What is a riot?; title: Power relations in the courtroom; title: 6. Aborigines behaving badly : legal realism and paternalism; title: The evidentiary effect of video; title: Bodies in pain and paternalism; title: Docile bodies and Aborigines behaving badly; title: Legal realism and paternalism.