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Private Politics, Public Strategies: White Advisers and their Aboriginal Subjects
Author(s) -
Batty Philip
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
oceania
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.356
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1834-4461
pISSN - 0029-8077
DOI - 10.1002/j.1834-4461.2005.tb02881.x
Subject(s) - politics , subjectivity , white (mutation) , government (linguistics) , mediation , sociology , gender studies , political science , public administration , social science , law , biochemistry , chemistry , gene , philosophy , linguistics , epistemology
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the working relationships that have emerged between Aboriginal and non‐Aboriginal people involved in the governmental project of ‘Aboriginal self‐determination’. I argue that these partnerships developed into significant sites of administrative and cultural mediation, both delineating and channelling the aspirations of Aboriginal people and government. As such, they facilitated the formation of various strategic forms of Aboriginal cultural and political subjectivity and thus helped operationalise the policies of Aboriginal self‐determination.