Indigenous and Other Australians since 1901 by Tim Rowse

Tim Rowse

ISBN 10: 1742235573 / ISBN 13: 9781742235578

Published by UNSW Press, Sydney NSW, 2017

About this Item

Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Minor marks on tail of right foredge. Interior and binding are very good. As Australia became a nation in 1901, no one anticipated that 'Aboriginal affairs' would become an ongoing national preoccupation. Not 'dying out' as predicted, Aboriginal numbers recovered and - along with Torres Strait Islanders - they became an articulate presence, aggrieved at colonial authority's interventions into family life and continuing dispossession. Indigenous and Other Australians since 1901narrates their recovery - not only in population numbers but in cultural confidence and critical self-awareness. Pointing to Indigenous leaders, it also reassesses the contribution of government and mission 'protection' policies and the revised definitions of 'Aboriginal'. Timothy Rowse explains why Australia has conceded a large Indigenous Land and Sea Estate since the 1960s and argues that the crisis in 'self-determination' since 2000 has been fuelled by an Indigenous critique of themselves.As Indigenous people put themselves at the centre of arguments about their future, this book could not be more timely. (publisher blurb).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Indigenous and Other Australians since 1901 by Tim Rowse
• Publisher: UNSW Press, Sydney NSW
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1742235573
• ISBN 13: 9781742235578
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 0.67 kilograms
• Seller catalogs:
  • Secondhand Books
  • Indigenous Australians/First Nations History

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Synopsis

As Australia became a nation in 1901, no one anticipated that ‘Aboriginal affairs’ would become an on-going national preoccupation. Not ‘dying out’ as predicted, Aboriginal numbers recovered and – along with Torres Strait Islanders – they became an articulate presence, aggrieved at colonial authority’s interventions into family life and continuing dispossession. Indigenous and Other Australians since 1901 narrates their recovery – not only in numbers but in cultural confidence and critical self-awareness. Pointing to Indigenous leaders, it also reassesses the contribution of government and mission ‘protection’ policies and the revised definitions of ‘Aboriginal’. Timothy Rowse explains why Australia has conceded a large Indigenous Land and Sea Estate since the 1960s, and argues that the crisis in ‘self-determination’ since 2000 has been fuelled by Indigenous critique of the selves that they have become. As Indigenous people put themselves at the centre of arguments about their future, this book could not be more timely.

About the Author

Tim Rowse has been writing on Australian Indigenous affairs since the early 1980s and is one Australia’s most significant scholars of Indigenous Studies. He worked for many years at the Menzies School for Health Research in Alice Springs.