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Title: Children of a dying race: the development story and governing through race
Authors: McCallum, David
Sociology and Social Policy
Keywords: Aboriginal child protection
governing through rights
Issue Date: 26-Nov-2012
Series/Report no.: Theorising Indigenous Sociology: Australian Perspectives
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Abstract: Late 19th century interest in new ideas about governing children, combined with the category of race as a core element of state formation, led to new interventions around children’s rights and limits to children’s life trajectories. This paper surveys public representations of early 20th century understandings of the ‘Aboriginal problem’ and notions of a ‘dying race’, and argues that this intellectual production underpins bio-political powers over the management and even continuance of the life of the child.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8792
Department/Unit/Centre: Sociology and Social Policy
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