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This book focuses on Indigenous self-determined and community-owned responses to complex socioeconomic and political challenges in Australia, and explores Indigenous policy development and policy expertise. It critically considers current practices and issues central to policy change and Indigenous futures. The book foregrounds the resurgence that is taking place in Indigenous governing and policy-making, providing case studies of local and community-based policy development and implementation. The chapters highlight new Australian work on what is an international phenomenon.
This book brings together senior and early career political scientists and policy scholars, and Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars working on problems of Indigenous policy and governance.
List of contents
Part 1 Interrogating Indigenous affairs policy.- Chapter 1: Indigenous public policy in global context.- Chapter 2: Rethinking Indigenous representation in Indigenous affairs.- Chapter 3: Rhetorical registers and the moral dynamics of failure and success in Australian Indigenous policy.- Chapter 4: Thinking policy through Indigenous knowledge.- Chapter 5: Changing the policy agenda from inside the party room: Indigenous knowledge and expertise in the Labor Party's First Nations Caucus.- Chapter 6: Black swans make better policy.- Chapter 6: Black swans make better policy.- Part 3 Nation building and resurgence: An alternative to policy?.- Chapter 7: Nation-building in Australia.- Chapter 8: Bureaucracy and sovereignty in contemporary Indigenous policy.- Part 4 Policy implications for communities.- Chapter 9: Rematriation and reconnection: Decolonising the colonial archive for the Gomeroi diaspora.- Chapter 10: Treaty as pathway to Indigenous controlled policy.- Chapter 11: Self-determination & education policy.
About the author
Associate Professor Nikki Moodie is a Gomeroi(G/Kamilaroi) woman and sociologist based in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. She is the current Program Director of the Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity, a 20-year philanthropic program to support Indigenous-led social change across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.
Sarah Maddison is Director of the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne, where she is also Professor of Politics in the School of Social and Political Sciences.
