Theorising Indigenous Sociology: Australian Perspectives: Recent submissions
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Conditionality, Recognition and Indigenous Housing Policy in Australia
Published 2012-12-03This paper draws on ideas of recognition and the intercultural as a way of examining the impact of welfare conditionality on Indigenous housing policy in Australia. The increased application of welfare conditionality has ...Open AccessArticle -
Children of a dying race: the development story and governing through race
Published 2012-11-26Late 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 ...Open AccessArticle -
Can Theory Disempower? Making Space for Agency in Theories of Indigenous Issues
Published 2012-11-26Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are often presented by the media and academics as marginalised, dispossessed, and downtrodden. Historical narratives and statistics are used to strengthen this position. While ...Open AccessArticle -
Aboriginal Professionals: Work, Class, Culture
Published 2012-11-26This paper considers the growth of Aboriginal professionals. While the predominant focus in Australian scholarship remains contexts of Aboriginal disadvantage, there is a steadily increasing number of Indigenous professionals ...Open AccessArticle -
Using theory to ‘speak back’ to neoliberal performativity: the Northern Territory Intervention and the inventing of a neoliberal subject as a case in point
Published 2012-11-26The paper reflects on the Northern Territory Intervention as a neoliberal regime governing the conduct of Australia’s Aboriginal population in the Northern Territory. In doing so, it only provides a critical commentary and ...Open AccessArticle