TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kowal,Emma
TI  - Trapped in the Gap: Doing Good in Indigenous Australia 
SN  - 9781782385998
AV  - DU124.S63 K68 2015
U1  - 362.84/9915 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Aboriginal Australians
KW  - Ethnic identity
KW  - Services for
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Race awareness
KW  - Australia
KW  - White people
KW  - Attitudes
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anthropology (General), Development Studies
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782386001
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782386001
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781782386001/original
ER  -