Culture Crisis Anthropology and Politics in Aboriginal Australia

by Altman, Jon; Hinkson, Melinda

• ISBN13: 9781742232256
• ISBN10: 1742232256
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-01
• Publisher: University of New South Wales Press

Summary

In 2007 th eAustralian government declared that remote Aboriginal communities were in crisis and launched the Northern Territory Intervention. This dramatic move occurred against a backdrip of vigorous debate among policy makers, academics, commentators and Aboriginal people about the apparent failure of self-determination. -- back cover.

Author Biography

Jon Altman is a social scientist and an Australian Research Council Australian Professorial Fellow at the Center for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research. Melinda Hinkson is an anthropology professor and the chairman of the Visual Culture Research program at the Australian National University. She is the coeditor of An Appreciation of Difference: WEH Stanner and Aboriginal Australia. They are the coeditors of Coercive Reconciliation: Stabilise, Normalise, Exit Aboriginal Australia.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
A short note on terms used	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction: Anthropology and the culture wars	p. 1
The Problem of Recognition	p. 15
Indigenous politics in late liberalism	p. 17
National anthropologies and their problems	p. 32
Helping anthropologists, still	p. 45
The politics of suffering and the politics of anthoropology	p. 61
The Problem of Violence	p. 89
The shock of the new: A postcolonial dilemma for Australianist anthropology	p. 91
Child sexual abuse: The Intervention trigger	p. 116
Quaranting violence: How anthropology does it	p. 136
Counting Culture	p. 151
Re-figuring 'Indigenous culture'	p. 153
Is Culture the problem or the solution? Outstation health and the politics of remoteness	p. 179
Indigenous education and training: What are we here for?	p. 195
'Only whitefella take the road': Culture seen through the intervention at Yuendumu	p. 212
Imagining Futures	p. 227
Media images and the politics of hope	p. 229
Other people's lives: Secular assimilation, culture and ungovernability	p. 248
What future for remote Indigenous Australia? Economic hybridity and the neoliberal turn	p. 259
Index	p. 281
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