Reports from a Wild Country: Ethics for DecolonisationExplores some of Australia's major ethical challenges. Written in the midst of rapid social and environmental change and in a time of uncertainty and division, it offers powerful stories and arguments for ethical choice and commitment. The focus is on reconciliation between Indigenous and 'Settler' peoples, and with nature. |
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Aboriginal women action analysis become Berndts Big Mick Black Brigalow Burrumarra camp draft Captain Cook cattle chapter Christian civilisation claim colonisation concept connection conquest context countermodern culture Daly River dead death decolonisation didgeridoo discussed disjunction Dreaming Earth logic ecological ethics example Freya Mathews frontier future Gulaga Hatley horses human includes Indigenous Indigenous Australians Jesuits Jesus killed knowledge labour Lake Pedder land Levinas living things look loss Mal's Mathews Max's missionaries Mistake Creek modernity monologue moral engagement mountain narrative nation native Nature Northern Territory one's outback palindromic past pastoralists people's Povinelli 2002 practices present reconciliation region relations relationships resilience responsibility ritual rodeo Rose sacred sense settler societies social species station story sustain term thought Timber Creek tion Tjinimin tour tourist Umbarra Vic River Victoria River violence Wallaga Lake western White Whitefellas wild Willshire Willshire's Yarralin Yuin
References to this book
Places of Pain and Shame: Dealing with 'Difficult Heritage' William Logan,Keir Reeves No preview available - 2008 |