Verwandte Artikel zu Trapped in the Gap: Doing Good in Indigenous Australia

Trapped in the Gap: Doing Good in Indigenous Australia

Kowal, Emma

 
9781782385998: Trapped in the Gap: Doing Good in Indigenous Australia

Inhaltsangabe

A forensic analysis of the dilemmas of well intentioned white development workers in Australia. Explores what happens when well-meaning people, supported by the state, find themselves trapped by endless ambiguities and contradictions — a microcosm of the broader dilemmas of postcolonial societies. Explains why doing good is so hard, and how it could be done differently.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Emma Kowal is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Deakin University, Melbourne. She has also worked as a doctor and public health researcher in Indigenous health settings. She has published widely on Australian postcolonialism, whiteness and anti-racism, is co-editor of Moving Anthropology: Critical Indigenous Studies, and is an editor of the journal Postcolonial Studies

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.