Settler modernity and the quest for an indigenous tradition

Public Culture

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-48

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EID: 0033463249     PISSN: 08992363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/08992363-11-1-19     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Lorimer Fison, Kamilaroi and Kunai (Canberra: Australian Aboriginal Press, 1880). "[In] inter-sexual arrangements . . . as elsewhere, present usage is in advance of the ancient rules. But those rules underlie it, and are felt through it; and the underlying strata crop up in many places" (29).
2. Fison, Kamilaroi and Kunai, 29.
3. Fison, Kamilaroi and Kunai, 42.
4. "By present usage, I mean that which has been developed by the natives themselves, not that which has resulted from their contact with the white men. This is a factor which must be altogether cast out of the calculation, and an investigator on this line of research needs to be continually on watch against it" (Fison, Kamilaroi and Kunai, 29).
5. Fison, Kamilaroi and Kunai, 30.
6. Fison, Kamilaroi and Kunai, 59-60.
7. The Wik Peoples v. the State of Queensland (1996), 146, 176.
8. The Wik Peoples v. the State of Queensland, 146. See also an editorial written by the Chief Minister ot the Northern Territory, Marshall Perron. "Sacred Sites - A Costly Token to a Dead Culture," Northern Territory News, 7 January 1989, 7.
9. The Wik Peoples v. the State of Queensland, 146. See also an editorial written by the Chief Minister ot the Northern Territory, Marshall Perron. "Sacred Sites - A Costly Token to a Dead Culture," Northern Territory News, 7 January 1989, 7.
10. The Wik Peoples v. the State of Queensland, 182.
11. Lisa Kearns, "Armbands Sell Like Hot Cakes," Age, Melbourne Online, 21 November 1997.
12. Kaja Silverman, "White Skin, Brown Masks: The Double Mimesis, or Lawrence in Arabia," differences 1 (1989): 3.
13. Sigmund Freud, "Mourning and Melancholia," in Collected Papers. Vol. 4 (New York: Basic Books, 1959).
14. Matt Price, "Lightfoot on Black Policy Committee," Australian, 11 June 1997, 4.
15. To lose one's portfolio in the Australian parliamentary system is somewhat equivalent to losing cabinet responsibilities in the U.S. system.
16. See, for example, Patrick Lawnham, "Bush Reserves Judgment on Herron," Australian, 3 July 1996, 2; and Colin Tatz, "We Fail Aborigines if We Prune the Past," Australian, 3 July 1996, 13.
17. See, for example, Patrick Lawnham, "Bush Reserves Judgment on Herron," Australian, 3 July 1996, 2; and Colin Tatz, "We Fail Aborigines if We Prune the Past," Australian, 3 July 1996, 13.
18. Kim Beazley, "Address to the Nation by the Leader of the Opposition, Kim Beazley," Age, Melbourne Online, 2 December 1997. See also Claire Miller, "Just Society at Risk, says Fraser," Age, Melbourne Online, 26 November 1997: "The former Liberal Prime Minister Mr. Malcolm Fraser yesterday added his voice to community pressure on the Federal Government over its handling of the Wik debate with a warning that a reputation of trying to build a fair and just society was at risk."
19. Kim Beazley, "Address to the Nation by the Leader of the Opposition, Kim Beazley," Age, Melbourne Online, 2 December 1997. See also Claire Miller, "Just Society at Risk, says Fraser," Age, Melbourne Online, 26 November 1997: "The former Liberal Prime Minister Mr. Malcolm Fraser yesterday added his voice to community pressure on the Federal Government over its handling of the Wik debate with a warning that a reputation of trying to build a fair and just society was at risk."
20. Beazley, "Address to the nation."
21. Beazley, "Address to the nation."
22. Among these numerous reports, see Michael Millet, "Race Row: Tourists Cancel Trips," Sydney Morning Herald, 1 November, 1996, A1; and Peter Switzer, "Hansonism Feeds on Economy's Failings," Weekend Australian, 21-22 June 1997, 54.
23. Among these numerous reports, see Michael Millet, "Race Row: Tourists Cancel Trips," Sydney Morning Herald, 1 November, 1996, A1; and Peter Switzer, "Hansonism Feeds on Economy's Failings," Weekend Australian, 21-22 June 1997, 54.
24. Benjamin Lee, "Textuality, Mediation and Public Discourse," in Habermas and the Public Sphere, ed. Craig Calhoun (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993), 414-15.
25. See, for instance, William Kymlicka, Multicultural Citizenship (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).
26. Jacques Lacan, "Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason since Freud, in Écrits, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: Norton, 1977), 146-178.
27. Geoffrey Partington, Hasluck versus Coombs: White Politics and Australia's Aborigines (Sydney: Quaker Mill Press, 1996).
28. Art of the Hunter: A Film on the Australian Aborigines, produced and directed by John Endean, with the assistance of A. P. Elkin (Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, ca. 1950).
29. Freud, "Mourning and Melancholia."
30. Peter Garrett, Diesel and Dust (New York: Columbia Records, 1988).
31. The first land rights statute was passed in 1966 in South Australia - The Aboriginal Land Trusts Act 1966 (SA). Since then there have been a series of statutes: Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Act 1981 (SA), Maralinga Tjarutja Land Rights Act (SA), Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW), Local Government (Aboriginal Lands) Act 1978 (Qld), Land Act (Aboriginal and Islander Land Grants) Amendment Act 1982 (Qld).
32. Elizabeth A. Povinelli, "The State of Shame: Australian Multiculturalism and the Crisis of Indigenous Citizenship," Critical Inquiry 24(1998): 575-610.
33. Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 (Canberra: Government Printer).
34. Eddie Mabo v. the State of Queensland 107 ALR 44.
35. See Wendy Brown, "Wounded Attachments," in States of Injury Power and Freedom in Late Modernity (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995). Also Lauren Berlant, "The Subject of True Feeling," in Cultural Pluralism, Identity Politics, and the law, ed. Austin Sarat (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997).
36. See Wendy Brown, "Wounded Attachments," in States of Injury Power and Freedom in Late Modernity (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995). Also Lauren Berlant, "The Subject of True Feeling," in Cultural Pluralism, Identity Politics, and the law, ed. Austin Sarat (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997).
37. Lisa Clausen "The Cruelty of Kindness," Time, 9 June 1997, 46.
38. Laura Tingle, "Keating Attacks Wik Plan as Racist," Age, Melbourne Online, 12 November 1997.
39. Beazley, "Address to the Nation," Tasmanian Green Party Senator Bob Brown said "It would embarrass Australia internationally at the Olympics in Sydney, besides the Aboriginal people would not accept it, nor should they." Paul Daley, "Wik Poll Gives Liberals a Shock," Age, Melbourne Online, 7 December 1997.
40. Beazley, "Address to the Nation," Tasmanian Green Party Senator Bob Brown said "It would embarrass Australia internationally at the Olympics in Sydney, besides the Aboriginal people would not accept it, nor should they." Paul Daley, "Wik Poll Gives Liberals a Shock," Age, Melbourne Online, 7 December 1997.
41. Lisa Clausen, "Cruelty of Kindness."
42. Wik People v. the State of Queensland (1996) 176.
43. Debra Jopson "One Nation or 301 Nations?" Sydney Morning Herald, 9 August 1997, 15s.
44. Peter Sloterdjik, Critique of Cynical Reason (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987) and Slavoj Žižck, "How Did Marx Invent the Symptom?" in The Sublime Object of The Sublime Object of Ideology (New York: Verso, 1992), 28-33.
45. Peter Sloterdjik, Critique of Cynical Reason (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987) and Slavoj Žižck, "How Did Marx Invent the Symptom?" in The Sublime Object of The Sublime Object of Ideology (New York: Verso, 1992), 28-33.
46. Genny O'Loughlin, "Topsy Secretary - Last of the Larrakia," Northern Territory News, 10 December 1989, 16.
47. Linda Pearson, "Aboriginal Land Rights Legislation in New South Wales," Environmental and Planning Law Journal 10 (1993): 398-422, esp. 399 and 400.
48. Mikhail M. Bakhtin, "The Problem of Speech Genres," in Speech Genres and Other Late Essays (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990), 68.
49. Australian Walkabout Show, "Death Rite for Mabalang," 1948 Program, ABC Radio.
50. Collin Simpson (on tape) announces to the radio audience: "Mosec is dancing solo around the old man, and I don't know if I have ever seen finer dancing in my life. He is comparable with a dancer like Le Shine - the art of a faun ballet. Really, but don't take my word for it: Ask Ted Shaun, the American dancer who toured Australia and visited Delissaville and who said that Mosec would be a sensation in London or New York" "Death Rite for Mabalang."