The psychodynamics of Australian settler-nationalism: Assimilating or reconciling with the aborigines?

Political Psychology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 667-701

  Moran, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affect; Australian Aborigines; Object relations theory; Reconciliation; Settler nationalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036913769     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0162-895X.00303     Document Type: Review

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