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Trapped in the Gap : Doing Good in Indigenous Australia / Emma Kowal.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (214 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781782385998
  • 9781782386001
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.84/9915 23
LOC classification:
  • DU124.S63 K68 2015
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Studying ‘Good’ -- Chapter 2 The Culture of White Anti-racism -- Chapter 3 Tiwi ‘Long Grassers’ -- Chapter 4 Welcome to Country -- Chapter 5 Mutual Recognition -- Chapter 6 White Stigma -- Conclusion -- References -- Index
Summary: In Australia, a ‘tribe’ of white, middle-class, progressive professionals is actively working to improve the lives of Indigenous people. This book explores what happens when well-meaning people, supported by the state, attempt to help without harming. ‘White anti-racists’ find themselves trapped by endless ambiguities, contradictions, and double binds — a microcosm of the broader dilemmas of postcolonial societies. These dilemmas are fueled by tension between the twin desires of equality and difference: to make Indigenous people statistically the same as non-Indigenous people (to 'close the gap') while simultaneously maintaining their ‘cultural’ distinctiveness. This tension lies at the heart of failed development efforts in Indigenous communities, ethnic minority populations and the global South. This book explains why doing good is so hard, and how it could be done differently.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Studying ‘Good’ -- Chapter 2 The Culture of White Anti-racism -- Chapter 3 Tiwi ‘Long Grassers’ -- Chapter 4 Welcome to Country -- Chapter 5 Mutual Recognition -- Chapter 6 White Stigma -- Conclusion -- References -- Index

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In Australia, a ‘tribe’ of white, middle-class, progressive professionals is actively working to improve the lives of Indigenous people. This book explores what happens when well-meaning people, supported by the state, attempt to help without harming. ‘White anti-racists’ find themselves trapped by endless ambiguities, contradictions, and double binds — a microcosm of the broader dilemmas of postcolonial societies. These dilemmas are fueled by tension between the twin desires of equality and difference: to make Indigenous people statistically the same as non-Indigenous people (to 'close the gap') while simultaneously maintaining their ‘cultural’ distinctiveness. This tension lies at the heart of failed development efforts in Indigenous communities, ethnic minority populations and the global South. This book explains why doing good is so hard, and how it could be done differently.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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