Wild Policy - Indigeneity and the Unruly Logics of Intervention

"Drawing on case studies from infrastructure, health, housing, education and vernacular multi-media initiatives across regional and remote Australia, Lea asks a beguilingly simple question: can there be good Indigenous social policy under liberal settler colonialism?"--

List of contents

Interlude I

1. Can there be good policy?

Interlude II

2. Policy Specters

Interlude III

3. Moorings, mining, and minutes

Interlude IV

4. Almost a miracle

Interlude V

5. Militarized social policy

Interlude VI

6. Wild Policy Manifesto

About the author

Tess Lea is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts: Indigenous Health in Northern Australia (2008) and Darwin (2014).

Summary

"Drawing on case studies from infrastructure, health, housing, education and vernacular multi-media initiatives across regional and remote Australia, Lea asks a beguilingly simple question: can there be good Indigenous social policy under liberal settler colonialism?"--

Product details

• Authors: Tess Lea
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781503612662
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-1266-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Anthropology of Policy
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology