[Commpsych] FW: REMINDER - Seminar Today: The Northern Territory Intervention: Liberal forms of governing Australian Indigenous people

[Heather Gridley]

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The Community, Identity and Displacement Research Network (CIDRN), a research network in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology is pleased to present:


The Northern Territory Intervention: Liberal forms of governing Australian Indigenous people

This paper considers three different historical events from the point of view of their connections to aspects of the history of liberal political reason:  the actions of the British in New South Wales in the early 19th century in their claim to sovereignty over Indigenous lands; the establishment of Aboriginal missions and subsequent removal of Aboriginal children in the early 20th century; and the Northern Territory Emergency Response and suspension of the Australian Commonwealth Racial Discrimination Act (1975) early in the 21st century. The aim is to point to gaps between present claims about liberalism and ‘actual existing liberalism’, review the basis for examining accounts of governance deploying ‘authoritarian liberalism’ and ‘race war’ as central concepts, and call into question the Northern Territory  campaign as an ‘exceptional’ event

BIONOTE

David McCallum teaches Sociology in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology at Victoria University in Melbourne. He is the author of The Social Production of Merit (Taylor and Francis / Falmer 1990), Personality and Dangerousness (Cambridge University Press 2001), and Inside the Child's Head (with Jennifer Laurence, Sense Publishing 2009). He is currently researching a book on children and the history of the human sciences in Australia.

Details are as follows:
TUESDAY 15th May 2012
3.00PM – 4.30PM
Room A432
Level 4, Building A
FOOTSCRAY PARK CAMPUS
VICTORIA UNIVERSITY

Please RSVP by Friday 11th May 2012 to Amanda Rea
Amanda.Rea at vu.edu.au<mailto:Amanda.Rea at vu.edu.au> or 9919 2685

Community, Identity and Displacement Research Network website: http://communityidentity.com.au/

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