Open AccessImagining the Good Indigenous Citizen: Race War and the Pathology of Patriarchal White Sovereignty
Author(s) -
Aileen MoretonRobinson
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
cultural studies review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 1837-8692
pISSN - 1446-8123
DOI - 10.5130/csr.v15i2.2038
Subject(s) - sovereignty , indigenous , white (mutation) , race (biology) , sociology , premise , gender studies , power (physics) , law , government (linguistics) , political science , political economy , politics , ecology , biochemistry , chemistry , linguistics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , gene , biology
In June 2007, the Australian federal government sent military and policy into Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory on the premise that sexual abuse of children was rampant and a national crisis. This article draws on Foucault’s work on sovereignty and rights to argue that patriarchal white sovereignty as a regime of power deploys a discourse of pathology in the exercising of sovereign right to subjugate and discipline Indigenous people as good citizens