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Murphy, Lyndon. "Who's afraid of the dark? : Australia's administration in Aboriginal affairs /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2000. http://eprint.uq.edu.au/archive/00000478/.
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Lane, Jonathon. "Anchorage in Aboriginal affairs A.P. Elkin on religious continuity and civic obligations /." Connect to full text, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3691.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2008.Title from title screen (viewed November, 11, 2008) Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of History, University of Sydney. Degree awarded 2008; thesis submitted 2007. Includes bibliographical references.
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Lane, Jonathon. "Anchorage in Aboriginal affairs: A. P. Elkin on religious continuity and civic obligation." University of Sydney, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3691.
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)In Australian Aboriginal affairs, the acculturative strand of assimilation developed in large part from Elkin’s religious and Idealist commitment, for which in the years 1928 to 1933 he won social-scientific authority. In competition with both an eliminationist politics of race and a segregationist politics of territory, Elkin drew upon religious experience, apologetics, sociology, and networks to establish a ‘positive policy’ as an enduring ideal in Aboriginal affairs. His leadership of the 1930s reform movement began within the Anglican Church, became national through civic-religious organs of publicity, and gained scientific authority as Elkin made religious themes a central concern in Australian anthropology. But from the 1960s until recently, most scholars have lost sight of the centrality of Idealism and religion in our protagonist’s seminal project of acculturative assimilation. This thesis aims to show how Elkin dealt with problems fundamental to twentieth century Aboriginal affairs and indeed to Australian modernity more generally – problems of faith and science, morality and expediency – in developing his positive policy towards Aborigines.
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Pidgeon, Michelle. "Looking forward --, a national perspective on aboriginal student services in Canadian universities." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ62416.pdf.
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Babidge, Sally. "Family affairs an historical anthropology of state practice and Aboriginal agency in a rural town, North Queensland /." Click here for electronic access to document: http://eprints.jcu.edu.au/942, 2004. http://eprints.jcu.edu.au/942.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) - James Cook University, 2004.Thesis submitted by Sally Marie Babidge, BA (Hons) UWA June 2004, for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the School of Anthropology, Archaeology and Sociology, James Cook University. Bibliography: leaves 283-303.
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Pyle, Elizabeth Ann. "Problematising the wickedness of 'disadvantage' in Australian Indigenous affairs policy." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2018. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/122956/1/Elizabeth_Pyle_Thesis.pdf.
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In this thesis 'Indigenous disadvantage' is examined through historical and contemporary discourses, including as a 'wicked' or intractable problem, within Australian Indigenous Affairs policy. Policies, programs and the views of policy actors working in Australian Indigenous Affairs were interrogated through themes of deficit and strength-based discourses. It is argued in this thesis that strength-based discourses which include genuine engagement and co-design with Indigenous Australians, can provide more meaningful and inclusive policy outcomes by challenging the current power structures that exclude and marginalise Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islander people in policy development and implementation.
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Turner, Patricia, and n/a. "From paternalism to participation : the role of the Commonwealth in the administration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs policy." University of Canberra. Administrative Studies, 1994. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061109.161356.
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Kinuthia, Wanyee. "“Accumulation by Dispossession” by the Global Extractive Industry: The Case of Canada." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/30170.
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This thesis draws on David Harvey’s concept of “accumulation by dispossession” and an international political economy (IPE) approach centred on the institutional arrangements and power structures that privilege certain actors and values, in order to critique current capitalist practices of primitive accumulation by the global corporate extractive industry. The thesis examines how accumulation by dispossession by the global extractive industry is facilitated by the “free entry” or “free mining” principle. It does so by focusing on Canada as a leader in the global extractive industry and the spread of this country’s mining laws to other countries – in other words, the transnationalisation of norms in the global extractive industry – so as to maintain a consistent and familiar operating environment for Canadian extractive companies. The transnationalisation of norms is further promoted by key international institutions such as the World Bank, which is also the world’s largest development lender and also plays a key role in shaping the regulations that govern natural resource extraction. The thesis briefly investigates some Canadian examples of resource extraction projects, in order to demonstrate the weaknesses of Canadian mining laws, particularly the lack of protection of landowners’ rights under the free entry system and the subsequent need for “free, prior and informed consent” (FPIC). The thesis also considers some of the challenges to the adoption and implementation of the right to FPIC. These challenges include embedded institutional structures like the free entry mining system, international political economy (IPE) as shaped by international institutions and powerful corporations, as well as concerns regarding ‘local’ power structures or the legitimacy of representatives of communities affected by extractive projects. The thesis concludes that in order for Canada to be truly recognized as a leader in the global extractive industry, it must establish legal norms domestically to ensure that Canadian mining companies and residents can be held accountable when there is evidence of environmental and/or human rights violations associated with the activities of Canadian mining companies abroad. The thesis also concludes that Canada needs to address underlying structural issues such as the free entry mining system and implement FPIC, in order to curb “accumulation by dispossession” by the extractive industry, both domestically and abroad.
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Babidge, Sally Marie. "Family affairs: an historical anthropology of state practice and Aboriginal agency in a rural town, North Queensland." Thesis, 2004. https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/942/2/02whole.pdf.
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This thesis is an historical anthropology of power, a study of the relations between the state and Aboriginal family in Charters Towers, a rural town of approximately 9,000 people, 135km south west of Townsville, North Queensland. In this thesis I argue that the state/society relationship is mutually (if unequally) constituted, and that the relationship (in practice, in discourse, and in the imagination) operates at many levels. The thesis takes up critical evaluations of the anthropological research on family/kinship in rural Aboriginal Australia through an ethnographic study of the practices of family and belonging. I begin by examining the nature of the frontier, in the construction of knowledge across the frontier and the early practices of the state and Aboriginal people in the reproductions of cultural and social boundaries. The reproduction of Aboriginal difference is institutionalised at the turn of the 20th Century when the state creates specific legislation to control Aboriginal people under the rhetoric of 'protection'. Subsequent state policies of 'assimilation' and 'self-determination' are seen as extension of measures of control, although practised by state bureaucracies in novel ways. Under ‘recognition’, in the era of Native Title, Aboriginal difference is 'recognised' in terms of concepts of ‘traditional culture’: a static de-historicised Aboriginality with which Aboriginal people identify as well as subvert and resist. In the thesis I examine how Aboriginal families are produced and reproduced in ways which are enmeshed in state practice as well as constituted by practice identified as particularly Aboriginal. Utilising archival sources produced by the colonial state, as well as published histories, oral history and ethnography, I analyse the complexities of state intervention into Aboriginal people’s lives and Aboriginal discourse and practice in response to these measures. An ethnographic study of everyday articulations of 'family' and of events such as meetings and funerals, demonstrates that relations of kinship are formed and reformed through frequent performance, which as practice creates and recreates the terms of such relations. My engagement with these arguments in relation to Australian Aboriginal anthropology, is distinct in its analysis of the role of power outside of the resistance/domination duality.
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Babidge, Sally Marie. "Family affairs : : an historical anthropology of state practice and Aboriginal agency in a rural town, North Queensland /." 2004. http://eprints.jcu.edu.au/942/1/01front.pdf.
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This thesis is an historical anthropology of power, a study of the relations between the state and Aboriginal family in Charters Towers, a rural town of approximately 9,000 people, 135km south west of Townsville, North Queensland. In this thesis I argue that the state/society relationship is mutually (if unequally) constituted, and that the relationship (in practice, in discourse, and in the imagination) operates at many levels. The thesis takes up critical evaluations of the anthropological research on family/kinship in rural Aboriginal Australia through an ethnographic study of the practices of family and belonging. I begin by examining the nature of the frontier, in the construction of knowledge across the frontier and the early practices of the state and Aboriginal people in the reproductions of cultural and social boundaries. The reproduction of Aboriginal difference is institutionalised at the turn of the 20th Century when the state creates specific legislation to control Aboriginal people under the rhetoric of ‘protection’. Subsequent state policies of ‘assimilation’ and ‘self-determination’ are seen as extension of measures of control, although practised by state bureaucracies in novel ways. Under ‘recognition’, in the era of Native Title, Aboriginal difference is ‘recognised’ in terms of concepts of ‘traditional culture’: a static de-historicised Aboriginality with which Aboriginal people identify as well as subvert and resist. In the thesis I examine how Aboriginal families are produced and reproduced in ways which are enmeshed in state practice as well as constituted by practice identified as particularly Aboriginal. Utilising archival sources produced by the colonial state, as well as published histories, oral history and ethnography, I analyse the complexities of state intervention into Aboriginal people’s lives and Aboriginal discourse and practice in response to these measures. An ethnographic study of everyday articulations of ‘family’ and of events such as meetings and funerals, demonstrates that relations of kinship are formed and reformed through frequent performance, which as practice creates and recreates the terms of such relations. My engagement with these arguments in relation to Australian Aboriginal anthropology, is distinct in its analysis of the role of power outside of the resistance/domination duality.
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Bradley, Patrick. ""Average mail ... lots of routine" : Arthur Wellsley Vowell and the administration of Indian Affairs in British Columbia 1889-1910." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/7018.
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Federal Indian Superintendent Arthur W. Vowell was a long serving administrator, who managed the Canadian government’s relationship with Aboriginal people in British Columbia between 1889 and 1910. This research challenges the thesis that policy and practice were necessarily symmetrical by arguing bureaucracy operated as a distinct form of power in British Columbia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I argue that the power exercised by department bureaucrats was not manifested in centralized top-down organization and micro-management by Ottawa, but instead evolved through the subjective, dispersed activities and daily decision making of individual bureaucrats. Drawing on department correspondence, and other evidence derived from a study of the life of Indian superintendent Arthur Vowell, this study seeks to understand how Indian affairs bureaucracy functioned. This understanding is developed through the particular lens of Arthur Vowell’s administrative activities and their role in the larger context of the colonial project in British Columbia.Graduate
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Elder, David R. "The social construction of Aboriginal fringe-dwellers." Master's thesis, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/116806.
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Since the early days of the colonization of
Australia, governments have established commissions and
committes of inquiry to investigate and to provide them
with advice about solutions to the Aboriginal 'problem'.'
These inquiries, as Woenne notes, have also had an
educative aspect, informing the general public of the 'true
state of affairs' of the Aboriginal situation, (woenne
1979:324-56) The passing of the 1967 referendum and the
establishment of Aboriginals as an issue of public interest
has seen an increasing reliance by governments on the
advisory and educative functions of such inquiries. Current
policies of self-determination and self-management have
contributed to this trend as governments have established
inquiries to consult with Aborigines and provide them with
advice that ostensibly reflects Aboriginal needs and
desires. Despite this trend there are few studies of such
inquiries. (Woenne 1979 and Australian Institute of
Aboriginal Studies 1984) This thesis is about one of these
inquiries, that of the House of Representatives Standing
Committed on Aboriginal Affairs into fringe-dwelling
Aboriginal communities.
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McFadgen, Rebecca A. "BEYOND THE DUTY TO CONSULT: COMPARING ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN THREE ABORIGINAL COMMUNITIES IN CANADA." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10222/35396.
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First Nations in Canada have long struggled to participate effectively in resource development decisions. In 2004, the Supreme Court established that the federal and provincial governments of Canada have a duty to consult First Nations in cases where their treaty rights, land claims, or traditions may be adversely affected by government decision-making or third-party development. To determine whether the duty to consult has made an impact on the empowerment of First Nations in these decisions, I assess three case studies using four criteria. This research finds that, while the duty to consult has made a positive impact on the empowerment of First Nations, it still does not go far enough in truly empowering communities to achieve sustainable development on their own terms. This study concludes that the duty to consult may be supplemented with Aboriginal self-government – signaling the potential for positive change in the empowerment of communities seeking environmental justice.
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"Community development at the Department of Indian Affairs in the 1960's : much ado about nothing." Thesis, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-01032007-140804.
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This thesis tells the story of the Community Development Program (CDP) of the Department of Indian Affairs. The Program was initiated in Canada in the early 1960s during a time of international popularity for the community development approach, and a national sentiment that the federal government ought to do something to positively change the situation for Indian people in Canada. The Program is probably best remembered for the commotion that its young practitioners caused when they began to encourage community development on Canadian Indian Reserves. The question that guides the research asks whether or not the CDP was different from previous policies of the Department of Indian Affairs. The author asserts that the CDP was novel in its organization, the problem it sought to address, and the way in which it treated Indian people. Data were gathered through interviews with former employees of the Department of Indian Affairs and through archival research into the files of the Department and its former employees.The author uses the theoretical framework developed by Jurgen Habermas and adapted by John Forester to interpret both traditional Canadian policies directed towards Indian people and the Community Development Program.
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Gordon, Zoe Claire. "Reconsidering Aboriginal welfare dependency: The Howard Government years through the lens of Postcolonial theory." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/117804.
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The Liberal-National Coalition Government led by Prime Minister John Howard (1996 to 2007) brought with it a new approach to Indigenous affairs. At the centre of the Howard Government’s approach sat the concept of Aboriginal welfare dependency. This concept arguably has as much currency within Australian politics today as it did during the Howard years, and yet the Howard Government’s normalisation of the concept of Aboriginal welfare dependency remains relatively under-examined. This thesis fills this gap and critically analyses the Howard Government's development of the concept over its four terms, through the lens of Postcolonial theory. In conjunction with Postcolonial theory, this thesis implements Carol Bacchi’s ‘What's the problem represented to be?’ (WPR) approach to policy analysis, as a way of structuring-in the application of Poststructuralist and Postmodernist insights around the power of ideas. This fruitful though unusual pairing brings together Postcolonial theory’s oppositionary stance towards colonialism in all its various forms, and the streamlined Poststructuralist questioning of Bacchi's highly compatible WPR approach. Using this dual approach, this thesis deconstructs and rethinks the Howard Government's representation of the problem of Aboriginal welfare dependency, with Australia’s ongoing colonial context very much in mind. A clear picture of the problem representation is developed through a close examination of the Howard Government's policy material and public statements. The fate of the successful community-controlled Indigenous employment program – the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme – is charted through this process. The implicit assumptions within the Howard Government's representation of the problem of Aboriginal welfare dependency are unpacked, and its neoliberal and colonial origins are traced. A portrait emerges of Aboriginal welfare recipients as failed economic actors, responsible for their own poverty. This thesis then considers how the situation could be read differently. Flaws within the concept of welfare dependency itself are identified, calling into question the usefulness of the concept. It is argued that in employing this flawed concept to explain Aboriginal unemployment, the Howard Government neglected to recognise the ongoing colonial context in Australia, as a problem in its own right, and as a cause of Aboriginal unemployment. In contrast, this thesis highlights how current levels of Aboriginal welfare use are directly related to the historic economic marginalisation of Indigenous people and the imposition of an alien and uncompromising economy (factors which had been ameliorated to a degree by the now dismantled CDEP scheme). By detaching Aboriginal unemployment from this broader colonial context, the Howard Government took a decisive step away from the acknowledgement and redress on which Aboriginal economic security and decolonisation both rely.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Social Sciences, 2017
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Yeh, Mei-Hui, and 葉美慧. "Research of the Deficiency of Taiwan's National Park Law and Management－ A Perspective from the Treating Process of Aboriginal Affairs of Taroko National Park Headquarters." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/qhh27d.
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While not backed by national laws, Taroko National Park Headquarters set up an “Aboriginal Council Committee (ACC)” in 2002 to build a stable “communication platform” for both the Park and the local aborigines. Although the establishment of ACC seemed not to be in valid legal ground, “Construction and Planning Agency, Ministry of the Interior”, the competent authority of the Park, still agreed tacitly and requested every national park headquarters further to found a “Local People Council Committee”. However, with the transfer of Director, Taroko National Park Headquarters has begun to re-consider if the “communication platform” should continue or not. National Park Law is the basis of national park management. In order to make the Law better and more ideal, many experts and scholars have raised a lot of suggestions to improve the insufficiency of the Law. If the Law is really improper or insufficient, the effects of national park management will not be able to be raised. This research discussed the process of the establishment of the communication platform, ACC, by reference collection and analysis and in-depth interviews. References including the related theses, journal articles, official documents, meeting records, etc. were for the researcher to analyze the decision process of the management on the aboriginal affairs. In addition, the researcher gathered related data further by in-depth interviews to present the real situation, and to analyze the management problems on the aboriginal affairs caused by the insufficiency of National Park Law. The result shows that when it comes to the management principles or bases on the aboriginal affairs in the Park management, it is rare to find concrete and documented regulations or directions. It seems that the Director, the top manager of the Park, can fully exercise his/her right and power to handle the aboriginal affairs, so the management on aboriginal affairs may differ from each Director. The establishment and operation of ACC proves the above idea. Because of the substitution of the top manager, discontinuousness appears when the Headquarters deals with ACC, and other aboriginal affairs. Finally, according to the data collection and analysis, the researcher raises the following suggestions. On one hand, the Park should actively work hard on the revision of National Park Law to legalize the “communication platform” and to systemize the management on the aboriginal affairs. On the other hand, the Park can learn from the transfer of American National Park management policies to moderately adjust the principles of aboriginal affairs. Moreover, the Park should take the local people’s rights and interests into consideration and involve the aboriginal affairs and public participation in the Park management to improve the interaction of both sides and to enhance the effects of the management on the aboriginal affairs.
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Jacobs, Madelaine Christine. "ASSIMILATION THROUGH INCARCERATION: THE GEOGRAPHIC IMPOSITION OF CANADIAN LAW OVER INDIGENOUS PEOPLES." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/7557.
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The disproportionate incarceration of indigenous peoples in Canada is far more than a socio-economic legacy of colonialism. The Department of Indian Affairs (DIA) espoused incarceration as a strategic instrument of assimilation. Colonial consciousness could not reconcile evolving indigenous identities with projects of state formation founded on the epistemological invention of populating idle land with productive European settlements. The 1876 Indian Act instilled a stubborn, albeit false, categorization deep within the structures of the Canadian state: “Indian,” ward of the state. From “Indian” classification conferred at birth, the legal guardianship of the state was so far-reaching as to make it akin to the control of incarcerated inmates. As early iterations of the DIA sought to enforce the legal dominion of the state, “Indians” were quarantined on reserves until they could be purged of indigenous identities that challenged colonial hegemony. Reserve churches, council houses, and schools were symbolic markers as well as practical conveyors of state programs. Advocates of Christianity professed salvation and taught a particular idealized morality as prerequisites to acceptable membership in Canadian society. Agricultural instructors promoted farming as a transformative act in the individual ownership of land. Alongside racializing religious edicts and principles of stewardship, submission to state law was a critical precondition of enfranchisement into the adult milieu. When indigenous identities persisted, children were removed from their families and placed in residential schools for intensive assimilation. Adults and children deemed noncompliant to state laws were coerced through incarceration. Jails were powerful symbols of the punitive authority of the Dominion of Canada. Today, while the overrepresentation of Aboriginal persons in prisons is a matter of national concern, and critiques of systematic racism dismantle ideologies of impartial justice, the precise origins of indigenous imprisonment have not been identified. The DIA was so intimately invested in assimilation through incarceration that lock-ups were erected with band funds on “Indian lands” across Canada. Archival documents and the landscape of Manitoulin Island make this legal historical geographical analysis of assimilation through incarceration possible.Thesis (Ph.D, Geography) -- Queen's University, 2012-09-28 14:23:08.969
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Fowkes, Lisa. "Settler-state ambitions and bureaucratic ritual at the frontiers of the labour market: Indigenous Australians and remote employment services 2011–2017." Phd thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/160842.
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This thesis explores how policy is enacted – in this case, the
Australian Government’s labour market program for remote
unemployed people, initially known as the Remote Jobs and
Communities Program (RJCP) and then the Community Development
Programme (CDP). It outlines the development and delivery of the
program from 2011, when the then Labor Government identified the
need for a specific remote employment program, placing the
employment participation of remote Indigenous people (who made up
over 80% of the remote unemployed) at centre stage. It examines
the changes that occurred to the program following the 2013
election of a Coalition Government, including the introduction of
‘continuous’ Work for the Dole.
The focus of the thesis is on how patterns of practice have
emerged in these programs, in particular: how providers have
responded; how frontline workers navigate their roles; and how
‘Work for the Dole’ actually operates. What emerges is a gulf
between bureaucratic and political ambitions for these programs
and the ways in which participants and frontline workers view and
enact them. This is more than a problem of poor implementation or
the subversions of street-level bureaucrats and clients. There is
evidence of a more fundamental failure of technologies of
settler-state government as they are applied to remote Indigenous
peoples. On the remote, intercultural frontiers of the labour
market, the limits of centralised attempts at ‘reform’ become
clear. Practices intended to tutor Indigenous people in the ways
of the labour market are emptied of meaning. The Indigenous
people who are the targets of governing efforts fail to conform
with desired behaviours of ‘self-governing’ citizens, even in
the face of escalating penalties. As a result, government
ambitions to transform the behaviours and subjectivities of
Indigenous people are reduced to bureaucratic rituals,
represented in numbers and graphs on computer screens in
Canberra.
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Lin, Edward, and 林良吉. "The Study of Min-che Governor-general and Fukien Governor Deal With the Taiwan Aborigine Affairs Under the C''hing (1683-1795)." Thesis, 1997. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54369673805279803759.
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Bannister, Judith Kaye. "Secret business and business secrets : the Hindmarsh Island Bridge affair, information law and the public sphere." Phd thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150345.
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