T Rowse
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 8277 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | T Rowse |
| NOMBRES | T |
| APELLIDO | Rowse |
| FIRMA | ROWSE T |
| AFILIACIONES | Western Sydney University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3602-5966 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 90 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 104 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 89 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1975 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Historicising Indigenous Political Thought
Writing about Indigenous sovereignty says much about how settler colonial governance affects Indigenous sovereignty practices, but less about the relationships among Indigenous Australians themselves. If Indigenous practices of sovereignty are ‘autonomous', they are difficult to observe and historicise. However, we can examine the self-positioning remarks of Indigenous political actors, and we can read relevant ethnography. This paper highlights …
An Ordeal of Peoplehood
The Australian government's 2009 commitment to the 2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples did not make Indigenous Australians a “people.” In 2017, in the Uluru Statement from the Heart, Indigenous Australians asserted peoplehood and asked Australians to recognise this via a constitutional amendment that would have created an Indigenous Voice to Parliament and Executive. Public debate revealed Indigenous Australians to…
The Debate Over the Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians
In the debate over constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians since 2010, the high “Yes” vote in 1967 has been recalled as a benchmark of national unity and goodwill towards Indigenous Australians, something to which Australians must return. The 1967 referendum has been evoked as a “step” towards reconciliation, with constitutional recognition presented as the next step. The “recognition” that the 1967 referendum enabled has been (mis)r…
Indigenous Governance
Chapters 9.1 (by Tim Rowse and Jennifer Green) and 9.2 (by Daryle Rigney, Denis Rose, Alison Vivian, Miriam Jorgensen, Steve Hemming and Shaun Berg) present case studies of past and present of Indigenous governance. In 9.1 Rowse and Green show that Arrernte jurisdiction has persisted in certain ways in Alice Springs/Mparntwe since the 1870s, notwithstanding the colonists’ expectation – at least until the reforms of ‘welfare colonialism’ in the 19…
Warren Mundine in Black and White
Tim Rowse response to David Trigger
Jackie Wolfe on Aboriginal Town Camping
The ordered behaviour of the individual himself’
By examining the thinking of a major public health bureaucrat, Dr Cecil Cook, this article contributes to our understanding of the relationship between racial thought and liberalism in Australia's administration of 'Aboriginal affairs'. In Cook's appraisal of the health problems of northern Australia, 2 kinds of distinction were significant: racial (whites, 'Asiatics', Aborigines) and capacity for hygienic living. We argue that over the span of C…
Indigenous Self-Determination in Australia
Histories of the colonisation of Australia have recognised distinct periods or eras in the colonial relationship: 'protection' and 'assimilation'. It is widely understood that, in 1973, the Whitlam Government initiated a new policy era: 'self-determination'. Yet, the defining features of this era, as well as how, why and when it ended, are far from clear. In this collection we
From White Nation to White Caution
Based on interviews with 31 non-Indigenous Australians during 2015–2017, this article argues that there is no “typical” non-Indigenous Australian way of talking and thinking about Indigenous Australia. Rather, a more plausible reading of our data is that non-Indigenous Australians are experiencing, in a self-aware and cautious way, the ascendancy of the idea that the Indigenous/non-Indigenous distinction is culturally, morally and politically sig…
Indigenous Self-determination Under Settler Colonial Capitalism
Using the papers of the Gibb Committee on the future of Aboriginal communities on pastoral properties in the Northern Territory (1970–72), this article contributes both theoretically and empirically to the history of self-determination policy. It reveals non-Aboriginal authorities’ thinking at a crucial moment in the history of the governing of remote Aboriginal Australians: the dissolution of the ‘pastoral-feudal’ order under the impact of ‘equa…
In Search of the Never-Never
Mickey Dewar made a profound contribution to the history of the Northern Territory, which she performed across many genres. She produced high-quality, memorable and multi-sensory histories, including the Cyclone Tracy exhibition at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and the reinterpretation of Fannie Bay Gaol. Informed by a great love of books, her passion
Reconciliation as Public Culture
twentieth anniversary of Ghassan Hage's White nation-his ethnographic account of what he calls the white national subject. i My paper is an attempt to build on Ghassan's work by considering research published since his book. I will argue that in the public culture of Australia, Indigenous people and Indigenous things are now prolifically affirmed. Before I explore this Indigenous-affirmative culture, let me explicitly exclude two topics: the exte…
Governing Natives
The ‘difficult heritage’ of the Native Mounted Police
This article intervenes in the debate about whether and how the ‘Frontier Wars’ should be represented in Australia’s military heritage. If they were to be represented, those who resisted British colonial occupation would figure as Aboriginal patriots in a renovated heritage of Australian service to country. We point out, however, that certain historical actors have been, so far (and perhaps forever), excluded from such a revised Indigenous milita…
The Good Country
The Good Country: The Djadja Wurrung, the Settlers and the Protectors." Australian Historical Studies, 49(2), pp. 268–269
Indigenous and other Australians since 1901
Tim Rowse's book, 'Indigenous and Other Australians Since 1901' (2017), raises timely questions about the writing of Aboriginal history, as well as offering insights into contemporary political debates. In this conversation, conducted via email, we examine some of the book's arguments, the evidence drawn on to make them and why these interventions are necessary today. In the introduction to the book, Rowse draws attention to W.E.H. Stanner's hope…
The Statistical Table as Colonial Knowledge
The statistical table is one expression of the settler colonial capacity and willingness to enumerate colonized “peoples” as “populations.” By examining four tables—from 1763, 1828, 1848, and 1850—in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia this paper illustrates the emergence of this powerful technique of representation during the same a period in which European states were developing their capacity to represent the social in statistical terms. In the…
New treaty, new tradition
According to Carwyn Jones, New Zealand’s late twentieth century return to the Treaty of Waitangi is both an opportunity for tikanga Māori and a threat to it
Mistress of Everything
Mistress of Everything: Queen Victoria in Indigenous Worlds. Edited by Sarah Carter and Maria Nugent, Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2016.Pp. 280Price: £75 Non-European peoples had reason and opportunity to learn the structure and disposition of the authorities that colonised them. Under British rule, they had time to get to ‘know’ Queen Victoria, for she reigned from 1837 to 1901. ‘Queen Victoria’ was not only an individual but a ‘syno…
Neoliberal Indigenous Policy
Neoliberal Indigenous Policy: Settler Colonialism and the “Post‐Welfare” State. By Elizabeth Strakosch (Houndsmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. vii + 213, with index, £60.00 (cloth)
One Decade, Two Accounts
In 1983, a decade after the establishment of the Aboriginal Arts Board (AAB), the Australia Council published a report that presented two competing accounts of the purpose, character and future of â Aboriginal literatureâ . The first part of the document assembled a detailed, approving survey of Indigenous creative writers and advocated continuing support for their activities. The second doubted the utility of a focus on creativity, urging instea…
Population Knowledge and the Practice of Guardianship
In the United States of America, as in other regions of the New World, the colonists imagined that the native peoples were “dying out.” Recent critical studies of this popular and robust narrative neglect to account for its demise. This paper describes the emergence, by the 1870s, of a critique of the “Dying Indian” story that rested on a growing store of population knowledge generated by the United States government. This paper narrates the incr…
The Indigenous Redemption of Liberal Universalism
Accounts of liberalism as an ideology of European imperialism have argued that when liberals discovered that colonized people were, in various ways, intractable, they questioned and then abandoned the postulated universal human capacity for improvement; the racial and cultural determinants of native “backwardness” seemed stronger than any universal susceptibility to the civilizing projects of liberal imperialism. While the intellectual trajectory…
Indigenous Heterogeneity
In the last twenty years, Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders have more openly articulated different ways of understanding their pasts and futures and the opportunities and obstacles that Australia presents to them. Such Indigenous diversity should provoke the curiosity of those writing the history of Australia's internal colonial experience. I begin this paper by criticising an approach to Australian history that emplots the colonial story as…
Indigenous Heterogeneity
In the last twenty years, Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders have more openly articulated different ways of understanding their pasts and futures and the opportunities and obstacles that Australia presents to them. Such Indigenous diversity should provoke the curiosity of those writing the history of Australia's internal colonial experience. I begin this paper by criticising an approach to Australian history that emplots the colonial story as…
Aborigines as historical actors
1986). Aborigines as historical actors: Evidence and inference. Historical Studies: Vol. 22, No. 87, pp. 176-198
Official Statistics and the Contemporary Politics of Indigeneity
Critical scholarship on colonisation tells us that official statistics have reflected the perspectives of the colonisers. However, the colonised, in asserting 'Indigenous rights,' have begun to use official statistics to advocate policies that will relieve the continuing structural injustice that is colonisation's legacy. This paper examines Aboriginal and Maori intellectuals' efforts to quantify, using official statistics, the 'unfinished busine…
Strehlow's strap
The Good Country
The Good Country: The Djadja Wurrung, the Settlers and the Protectors." Australian Historical Studies, 49(2), pp. 268–269
Rooted in Demographic Reality
One of the most powerful narratives deployed by colonists in the nineteenth century was that the colonized natives were inherently too weak to survive contact with those who were colonizing them—the Dying Native story. I argue that to understand the history of this story, we should differentiate between three senses in which it could be taken as true or false: physical destruction, genetic adulteration and loss of distinct culture. The physical d…
The Ontological Politics of 'Closing the Gaps
In Australia and New Zealand, the realization of the knowledge object ‘national population’ makes it necessary to involve Indigenous Australians and Māori in the Census. Both Indigenous peoples have engaged in the Census and have made use of the resulting official statistics in their self-representation as peoples not yet accorded social justice. This paper considers two of the issues of representing Indigenous peoples as populations: where to dr…
McClure's ‘Mutual Obligation’ and Pearson's ‘Reciprocity’ – Can They Be Reconciled
Culturally appropriate Indigenous Accountability
Since they renounced the policy goal of assimilation in the 1970s, Australian governments have encouraged indigenous Australians to form corporations. Such bodies receive public money to deliver services, and they have become the sinews of a mobilized indigenous constituency. By reviewing the research and recommendations of a recent Australian government report, this article addresses the controversy about the indigenous corporation's multiple ac…
Indigenous Self-Determination in Australia
Histories of the colonisation of Australia have recognised distinct periods or eras in the colonial relationship: 'protection' and 'assimilation'. It is widely understood that, in 1973, the Whitlam Government initiated a new policy era: 'self-determination'. Yet, the defining features of this era, as well as how, why and when it ended, are far from clear. In this collection we
Enlisting the Warlpiri
From White Nation to White Caution
Based on interviews with 31 non-Indigenous Australians during 2015–2017, this article argues that there is no “typical” non-Indigenous Australian way of talking and thinking about Indigenous Australia. Rather, a more plausible reading of our data is that non-Indigenous Australians are experiencing, in a self-aware and cautious way, the ascendancy of the idea that the Indigenous/non-Indigenous distinction is culturally, morally and politically sig…
The Colonial Emergence of a Statistical Imaginary
Intellectual networks linking humanitarians in Britain, Western Australia, and New Zealand in the 1850s and 1860s operationalized the concept of native 'protection' by arguing contra demographic pessimists that native peoples could survive if their adaptation was thoughtfully managed. While the population-measurement capacities of the colonial governments of Western Australia and New Zealand were still weak, missionaries pioneered the gathering o…
Public occasions, Indigenous selves
T hrough Indigenous autobiography Indigenous A ustralians have found voice as histo rians.1 To w rite the history of one's ow n life has becom e the do m in an t genre of Indigenous w ritten historical practice.2 N ote that I am using the w ord 'w rite ' loosely to refer to w hat w e readers suppose the Indigenous au th o r to have done. In this paper, I do not care w hether the 'a u th o r' is the sole p roducer of the text, and I do not differe…
The People and Their Experts
The 1944 Towers Referendum', lost by the Curtin government, has been subject to diverse historical interpretations some emphasising the solid good sense of 'the people', others the spoiling of rational debate by fear-mongering tactics of the 'No' case. This paper examines some features of H.C. Coombs'participation in the referendum. As Director of Rationing in 1942, Coombs developed a sense of the popular thirst for egalitarian reform; as Directo…
Indigenous and other Australians since 1901
Tim Rowse's book, 'Indigenous and Other Australians Since 1901' (2017), raises timely questions about the writing of Aboriginal history, as well as offering insights into contemporary political debates. In this conversation, conducted via email, we examine some of the book's arguments, the evidence drawn on to make them and why these interventions are necessary today. In the introduction to the book, Rowse draws attention to W.E.H. Stanner's hope…
New treaty, new tradition
According to Carwyn Jones, New Zealand’s late twentieth century return to the Treaty of Waitangi is both an opportunity for tikanga Māori and a threat to it
The Politics of ‘Aboriginal Society’
Intellectuals who engage in the making and critique of public policy may mobilise historical narrative in their policy discourse. Historiographical issues are therefore sometimes politicised. For both policy makers and historians concerned with Indigenous matters, the notion ‘Aboriginal society’ became relevant in the 1960s. The question of how to address it in policy has been entangled with the question of how to write its history. I illustrate …
Debating the Categories of Remote Indigenous Sociality
In The Use of Official Statistics in Sociology (1973), Barry Hindess distinguished between two critical approaches to official statistics: technical and theoretical. In this article I will elucidate Barry’s distinction and then apply it to a recent body of research by social scientists at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Research. In Making Sense of the Census (2002) and Agency, Contingency and the Census Process (2007), the CAEPR authors give …
The Limits of ‘Elimination’ in the Politics of Population
Has Australian colonisation tended to 'eliminate' the Indigenous presence? The Australian government did not enact the logic of eliminationby ceasing to enumerate people as Indigenous Australianswhen the referendum in 1967 showed popular support for the 'inclusion' of 'Aborigines'. No longer distinguishing 'Aborigines' in the results of the census, thus ending the 'Aboriginal population', was a possible road to inclusion, but it was not taken. Ra…
Indigenous Self-determination Under Settler Colonial Capitalism
Using the papers of the Gibb Committee on the future of Aboriginal communities on pastoral properties in the Northern Territory (1970–72), this article contributes both theoretically and empirically to the history of self-determination policy. It reveals non-Aboriginal authorities’ thinking at a crucial moment in the history of the governing of remote Aboriginal Australians: the dissolution of the ‘pastoral-feudal’ order under the impact of ‘equa…
In Search of the Never-Never
Mickey Dewar made a profound contribution to the history of the Northern Territory, which she performed across many genres. She produced high-quality, memorable and multi-sensory histories, including the Cyclone Tracy exhibition at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and the reinterpretation of Fannie Bay Gaol. Informed by a great love of books, her passion
The ‘difficult heritage’ of the Native Mounted Police
This article intervenes in the debate about whether and how the ‘Frontier Wars’ should be represented in Australia’s military heritage. If they were to be represented, those who resisted British colonial occupation would figure as Aboriginal patriots in a renovated heritage of Australian service to country. We point out, however, that certain historical actors have been, so far (and perhaps forever), excluded from such a revised Indigenous milita…
The Statistical Table as Colonial Knowledge
The statistical table is one expression of the settler colonial capacity and willingness to enumerate colonized “peoples” as “populations.” By examining four tables—from 1763, 1828, 1848, and 1850—in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia this paper illustrates the emergence of this powerful technique of representation during the same a period in which European states were developing their capacity to represent the social in statistical terms. In the…
Sovereign Selves
Facts, Theories and Ideology
Structuralist Analysis in Contemporary Social Thought
Women, Arbitration and the Family
Poor Little Rich Country
Australian Intellectuals and the Left — a Symposium
The trouble with hegemony
(1985). The trouble with hegemony: Popular culture and multiculturalism. Politics: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 70-76
Aborigines as historical actors
1986). Aborigines as historical actors: Evidence and inference. Historical Studies: Vol. 22, No. 87, pp. 176-198
‘Were You Ever Savages?’ Aboriginal Insiders and Pastoralists' Patronage
This paper is a reading of the life story of Jack Sullivan, an Aboriginal stock worker employed by the Durack family in the east Kimberley. It draws upon ethnographic and other writing to suggest the processes of pastoralist hegemony. Durack rule constituted several male Aboriginal workers as trusted intermediaries with those who were more distant from the colonists. Autonomous and skilful, Jack aligned himself with the ‘inside’ world centred on …
Methodism Defended, or Will the Australian Middle Class Recover the Radicalism of the Menzies Years
Fallen among gentlemen’
Reply to John Fiske's paper
Australians to 1788
Are We All Blow‐ins
Review of Gillian Cowlishaw's Black, White or Brindle: Race in Rural Australia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1988. Pp. vi + 296 plus index
Enlisting the Warlpiri
‘Interpretive possibilities’
(1991). ‘Interpretive possibilities’: Aboriginal men and clothing. Cultural Studies: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 1-13
The Royal Commission, Atsic and Self‐Determination
The National Report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, in recommending fundamental reforms of government policy, proposed a primarily political and administrative notion of Aboriginal empowerment or ‘self‐determination’. That is, the Commissioner argued the fundamental importance of publicly‐funded Aboriginal organisations and urged governments to relax financial accountability requirements imposed on them. The paper quote…
Strehlow's strap
Rethinking Aboriginal ‘Resistance’
In this paper I wish to contribute to an understanding of ‘Aboriginal resistance’ by a study of the politics of remote Aborigines' ‘employment’. I begin by highlighting some themes in recent discussions of the Community Development Employment Projects ( cdep ) policy, before looking back at some features of the welfare and pastoral economy in the Central Australian hinterland, c. 1950 to c. 1975. My aim is twofold: to show some of the cultural co…
Sally Morgan's kaftan
The Aboriginal Subject in Autobiography
A sense of 'who I was' issues from the record of the life; it does not precede and shape that record. Langford's need to articulate her self can be traced back to the many incidents of her life in which circumstances impeded her self-realisation in speech and action. One of the outstanding textual qualities of Don't Take Your Love to Town is the narrative's emphasis on the outward circumstances of life: where Langford lives, who she is with, what…
Out of hand’ ‐ the battles of Neville Bonner
Books
The Meagre Harvest: The Australian Women's Movement, 1950s‐1990s. By Gisela Kaplan. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1996. Pp. xiii + 242. $29.95 paper. The Christesen Romance. By Judith Armstrong. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1996. $29.95. Pp. 225 paper. The Politics of Australian Child Care: From Philanthropy to Feminism. By Deborah Brennan. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994. Pp. xii + 242. $29.95 paper. Fair Enough: Egalitarianism in…
White Flour, White Power
The colonial practice of rationing goods to Aboriginal people has been neglected in the study of Australian frontiers. This book argues that much of the colonial experience in Central Australia can be understood by seeing rationing as a fundamental, though flexible, instrument of colonial government. Rationing was the material basis for a variety of colonial ventures: scientific, evangelical, pastoral and the post-war program of 'assimilation'. C…
Antipodean perversity
Books
Freedom Bound I: Documents on Women in Colonial Australia. Edited by Patricia Grimshaw, Susan Janson and Marian Quartly. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1995. Pp. xi + 193. $22.95 paper. Freedom Bound II: Documents on Women in Modern Australia. Edited by Marilyn Lake and Katie Holmes. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1995. Pp. xii + 208. $22.95 paper. A Woman's Constitution? Gender and History in the Australian Commonwealth, Edited by Helen Irving. Hale & Iremonger…
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