Forty years after governmental attempts at providing Indigenous Australians with some capacity for self-government, confidence in Indigenous self-determination has been eroded by accounts of Indigenous pathology, misplaced policy optimism and persistent socio-economic 'gaps'. In this collection of thoughtful essays, Tim Rowse argues that Australian thinking about 'Indigenous' is a continuing, unresolvable tussle between the idea of 'peoples' and 'population'.

August 2012, pb, 230x152mm, 224pp

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