Boxer Deconstructionist

Publisher:
ANU E Press
Publication Type:
Chapter
Citation:
Dislocating the Frontier in Contemporary Australia, 2006, 1, pp. 165 - 176
Issue Date:
2006-01
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A ghost is haunting Australian politics, the ghost of Aboriginal power. Perhaps in the way that Marxism has been a `critical factor in the articulation of world politics, Aboriginal power has been a spectre in white Australian history. And despite all the struggles, the regular announcements of victory, assimilation, `reform or ten point plans, Aboriginal power persists. Marxism, too, continues to haunt the languages we use to analyse politics and history.2 How does one explain the persistence, even the growth of Aboriginal power; the power it uses to unravel those often-held certainties of politics and history?
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