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A critical approach to the study of rhetoric can help us to better understand the patterns of political discourse that normalise coercive approaches to government. This critical approach is especially necessary for the study of the governance of Australian Aboriginal Affairs. Historically, representations of Aboriginal peoples as uncivilised, violent and irrational have played a crucial role in the legitimation of colonialist policies. The work of postcolonial scholars has led to a growing acceptance among academic circles of the constructed nature of our knowledge about culture and identity. Furthermore, we can understand the process of identity construction — of ourselves and other groups — as a social process that is ‘bound up with the disposition of powerlessness in each society’ and which therefore has an impact on ‘the legislation of personal conduct, the constitution of orthodoxy, [and] the legitimization of violence’ (Said 2003: 332).

Languages of neoliberal critique: The production of coercive government in the Northern Territory intervention