Making and breaking the Aboriginal remote: Realities, languages, tomorrows (a commentary)
Making and breaking the Aboriginal remote: Realities, languages, tomorrows (a commentary) Journal Article
Oceania
- Author(s): Gerald M. Sider
- Published: 2014
- Volume: 84
Abstract: The concept of ‘remote’ has intensified a fundamental misunderstanding of widespread rural Aboriginal situations. More, it has served to mask the causality for current problems, which will remain intractable until causality is effectively addressed. This commentary re-examines how ‘remote’ is produced, both by and within the dominant state and society and, by means of a reconsideration of demand sharing and long-distance travel, from and within Aboriginal communities. On that basis new kinds of confrontational engagements with the production of remote are suggested.
- Urls: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ocea.5047
- Keywords: remote, indigenous-state relations, dependency, autonomy, demand sharing, development