58326 Australian Aboriginal Politics and History

This subject focuses on the various ways Aboriginal people have sought to exercise power. This approach seeks to understand, through detailed case studies, the demands Aboriginal people have made since colonisation. In doing this students develop an understanding of the impact of colonisation/dispossession as it occurred at different times across NSW, the shifting and changing political rationalities and wider intellectual influences that shaped this process and how this in turn has shaped Aboriginal social, cultural, economic and political life. The subject is organised around studies of key moments in the NSW Aboriginal political rights movement/s and the changing government policy and administration of Aboriginal affairs.