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Belonging Together

Dealing with the politics of disenchantment in Australian Indigenous Policy

Belonging Together
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Belonging Together provides a unique overview of the trajectory of current Indigenous policy, with Sullivan advancing a new consolidated approach to Indigenous policy which moves beyond the debate over self-determination and assimilation. Instead, he suggests that the interests of Indigenous peoples, settlers and immigrants are fundamentally shared, and proposes adaptation on both sides, but particularly for the descendants of settlers and immigrants, to allow them to embrace the framing of their identity by and Indigenous presence. Sullivan is also critical of the remote control of Indigenous lives from metropolitan centres, with long lines of bureaucratic oversight that are inherently maladaptive and inefficient. Instead, he proposes regional measures for policy implementation and accountability. Belonging Together’s empirical studies of current policy implementation are an important contribution to the anthropology of policy and public administration.
Aboriginal Studies Press; October 2011
161 pages; ISBN 9780855757830
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Contents Acknowledgments vi Preface vii Chapter 1 Introduction — a consolidated approach 1 Chapter 2 Cultures and intercultural relations 18 Chapter 3 Mainstreaming and fragmentation of 33 Aboriginal affairs Chapter 4 The unacknowledged community sector 48 Chapter 5 Accountability and government/citizen relations 67 Chapter 6 The organisation of bureaucracy 84 Chapter 7 Normalisation and Aboriginal citizens 100 Abbreviations 123 Notes 124 References 130 Index 143