White Flour, White Power: From Rations to Citizenship in Central AustraliaExamines the institution of rationing in Central Australia and its relation to protectionism, assimilation and the construction of accounts of Aboriginal agency; critique of rationing as a technique of behavioural change; argues that there was little reason to assume that rationing could serve an assimilationary role; close reading of the understanding of rationing as described by Spencer and Stirling - Horn Expedition; examines the relation between rationing and the production of knowledge of Aboriginal agency; rationing and its relation to concepts of pauperism, poverty, reciprocity, nurturance, parasitism - Elkin, Hamilton and Myers; 1930 census data from the NT - Barrow Creek, Arltunga, Charlotte Waters; the basis of interdependence and frontier violence; techniques of regulation and supervision in Alice Springs - education (the Bungalow), town camps, work and wages, segregation; contrast with Hermannsburg; effects of World War II - Areyonga and Haasts Bluff ration depots; Assimilation as a national policy - its relation to rationing practice; transition to a cash economy; effects on family structure; equal wage case - role of stations and pastoralism in the management of consumption; welfare distribution and unemployment; the function of settlements - Jay Creek, Haasts Bluff, Areyonga, Yuendumu and Hooker Creek and the persistence of the Indigenous domain; effects of communal feeding on child rearing and the family; social and economic impacts if the failure of assimilation: housing and the development of town camps - Morris Soak, Ammonguna; meaning and interpretation of policy change - self determination, land rights; problem of emerging Indigenous plurality and government processes - role of community and household - Tangentyere Council; beliefs, attitudes and stereotypes about Aborigines; government policy and administration. |
Contents
Rationing the Inexplicable | 13 |
Rationed Actors | 25 |
Part 2 | 47 |
Rural Central Australia 191440 | 49 |
Town Cash and Supervision | 68 |
A Christian Cannot Be a Parasite | 80 |
The World War in Town and Hinterland | 92 |
Part 3 | 105 |
Assimilation | 107 |
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A.P. Elkin AA NT AANT CRS F1 Aboriginals Ordinance Administration's Alice Springs Alyawarra Amoonguna Areyonga argued Arltunga Arrernte Battarbee Bowman Bungalow cattle stations Central Australia Chief Protector citizenship colonial colonists Commonwealth communal feeding Cook cultural detribalisation dining room District E.C. Stirling Eastern Arrernte economic employed employees employment European F.W. Albrecht Finke River Mission Giese Haasts Bluff half-castes Hartwig Hasluck Hermannsburg hinterland Hooker Creek Indigenous Australians Indigenous labour issue Jay Creek land lessees living Luritja Lutheran managed ment missionaries moral Native Affairs Branch norms Northern Territory Administration NT CRS F1 Papunya pastoral industry pastoral leases pastoralists patrol people's Pintupi Pitjantjatjara population rationing relationship residents River Mission Annual self-determination settlements and missions settlers social Strehlow Superintendent supervised camps T.G.H. Strehlow Tangentyere tion tjurunga town campers town camps Transcript 1965 tribal unemployment benefits W.B. Spencer wards Warlpiri Warrabri Welfare Branch WHITE FLOUR WHITE POWER women workers Yuendumu
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Page 8 - Power would no longer be dealing simply with legal subjects over whom the ultimate dominion was death, but with living beings, and the mastery it would be able to exercise over them would have to be applied at the level of life itself; it was the taking charge of life, more than the threat of death, that gave power its access even to the body.
Page 8 - Another consequence of this development of bio-power was the growing importance assumed by the action of the norm, at the expense of the juridical system of the law.
Page 8 - But a power whose task is to take charge of life needs continuous regulatory and corrective mechanisms. . . . Such a power has to qualify, measure, appraise, and hierarchize, rather than display itself in its murderous splendor; it does not have to draw the line that separates the enemies of the sovereign from his obedient subjects; it effects distributions around the norm.