Visions and violence of policy: An ethnography of Indigenous Affairs bureaucratic reform in the Northern Territory of Australia
Visions and violence of policy: An ethnography of Indigenous Affairs bureaucratic reform in the Northern Territory of Australia Thesis
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Author(s): Michel, Thomas
- Published: 2019
- Publisher: University of Sydney
Abstract: My contribution to the discussion around the 2008 shires reform will attempt to move beyond both an instrumental evaluation of policy and a simple critical understanding of policy as a reflection of social power structures. Instead I apply a cultural-ethnographic focus on minor events, and a conceptualisation of the shires reform as a layer in a larger policy “assemblage”. This allows for a more open-ended analysis of the complexities of a policy reform process in an intercultural setting, with blurred boundaries between intrinsic and extrinsic forces. My thesis thus assembles some minor stories of other agential forces in policy: the hostile Indigenous community resident, a pastoral property map, rebellious cyborgs, cows, rivers, distance, dirt.
- Urls: https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/2123/20510/1/michel_t_thesis.pdf
- Publisher Location: Sydney