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The metaphor of "movement" has been applied in limited measure to indigenous action in Australia, and more to recent events (∼1960s and afterwards) than to earlier ones. This review characterizes movement in social-semiotic terms that allow consideration of such a notion over a longer time span and range of social circumstances than is usual in Australianist literature. Examination of a limited number of relatively well-documented cases from differing times and places reveals differences in the grounds of action and kinds of objectification that movements appear to have involved and also a continuing shift toward shared indigenous-nonindigenous understandings and forms of activism in the face of persisting social differentiation. The arguably limited impact of indigenous movements needs to be considered in the light of systematic constraints on them.

AbstractSince the 1990s, the term "nation" for Indigenous Australian groups has emerged, along with an increasingly common phrase "First Nations," used both by Indigenous groups in self‐reference and by others in reference to them. This article examines the multiple sources of nation and its emergence in Australia as a contemporary form of Indigenous political discourse. Following a history of repeated dismissal of representative organizations by the Australian state, collective gains in recognition and legal visibility of Indigenous people, globally and nationally, have motivated a search for persuasive forms of organization that can command political authority between local social forms and governments, businesses, and other entities. Treaties are commonly understood as between distinct "nations," but—notoriously—the Australian state did not negotiate treaties with Indigenous people. The emergence of "nation" is aspirational and double‐sided: it responds to dominant Australian conditions and political demands but retains much that is distinctive of Aboriginal social process rather than erasing it in the socio‐political innovation of nationhood. The rise of Australian Indigenous "nations," recent and partial, sheds light both on persistence in Indigenous action and extension of governmental power into Indigenous domains—the "post‐" of settler colonialism.

A key, intensifying change affecting rural areas in the last few decades has been a decline in the proportion of national populations whose principal livelihood is farming. The corresponding re-distribution of population has typically resulted in a net population loss to rural areas, and diversification of rural activity. The corporatization and technological modification of food production has prompted new policy challenges, and has bound rural and urban populations together in new relationships articulated in moral discourses of custodianship, food safety, and sustainability. Contributors to this volume came together in the attempt to stimulate collective insight into trends of rural change in Australia, New Zealand and Europe. The first two countries have been characterised by avowedly `neoliberal' rural policy – with considerable departures from it in practice; Europe, on the other hand, by a mix of policy measures which attempt to integrate land management and sustainability, diversification and maintenance of a competitive farming sector within an overarching policy framework more overtly, though only partially, oriented towards sustaining rural society.Aiming to build on research relating to the character of rural transitions, this volume offers substantive and critical contributions to the understanding of the sources of unpredictability, instability, and continuity, that underpin rural transition. The papers explore changes and continuities in policy, the governance of rural spaces, technological developments relating to rural areas and populations, and social forms of subjectivation and participation in increasingly diverse rural settings

Bold women of the Warlpiri diaspora who went too far / Paul Burke -- Predicaments of proximity : revising relatedness in a Warlpiri town / Yasmine Musharbash -- Self-possessed : children, recognition, and psychological autonomy at Pukatja (Ernabella), South Australia / Ute Eickelkamp -- Reconfiguring relational personhood among Lander Warlpiri / Petronella Vaarzon-Morel -- The role of allocative power and its diminution in the constitution and violation of Wiradjuri personhood / Gaynor Macdonald -- Murrinhpatha personhood, other humans, and contemporary youth / John Mansfield -- Mobility and the education of indigenous youth away from remote home communities / Cameo Dalley -- We're here to worship god : aboriginal Christians and the political dimensions of personhood / Carolyn Schwarz -- Empathy, psychic unity, anger, and shame : learning about personhood in a remote aboriginal community / Victoria K. Burbank

This book celebrates the life and work of one of Australian's foremost anthropologists, LR Hiatt. He has sought to bring Aboriginal studies to the attention of both academics and the general public. His work has been influenced by his participation in the Sydney Libertarian movement, his interest in sociobiological themes, and his involvement in Aboriginalist scholarship. Les Hiatt is a sceptic regarding all forms of received wisdom, whether in academic anthropology or in Aboriginal affairs