Timothy rowse (3 resultados)

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Soft cover. Condición: Fine. Rethinking Social Justice From Peoples to Populations By Tim Rowse, Timothy Rowse. Softback in near new condition with no inscriptions. 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?'.…

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