Rethinking Social Justice

From peoples to populations

Tim Rowse

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Aboriginal Studies Press
01 August 2012

History; Social issues & processes; Indigenous peoples; Human rights

In the early 1970s, Australian governments began to treat Aborigines and Torres Strait Islander as 'peoples' with capacities for self-government. Forty years later, confidence in Indigenous self-determination has been eroded by accounts of Indigenous pathology, of misplaced policy optimism and of persistent socio-economic 'gaps'. In his new book, Tim Rowse accounts for this shift by arguing that Australian thinking about the 'Indigenous' is a continuing, unresolvable tussle between the idea of 'people' and the idea of 'population'. In Rethinking Social Justice, Rowse offers snapshots of moments in the last forty years in which we can see these tensions: between honouring the heritage and quantifying the disadvantage, between acknowledging colonisation's destruction and projecting Indigenous recovery from it. Rowse asks, not only 'Can a settler colonial state instruct the colonised in the arts of self-government?', but also, 'How could it justify doing anything less?'

By: Tim Rowse
Imprint: Aboriginal Studies Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 510g
ISBN: 9781922059161
ISBN 10: 1922059161
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 01 August 2012
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Rethinking Social Justice: From peoples to populations

A thought-provoking set of essays that explore--through key public intellectual figures and at different historical junctures--a vexed and complex question: if Indigenous Australians can be politically and ethically recognized only as a collective, then the question of how this collective is conceived arises... A must-have resource for all students and practitioners in Indigenous affairs. --Anna Yeatman, professorial research fellow, University of Western Sydney