Suchergebnisse

1.The origins and history of outstations as Aboriginal life projects /Fred Myers and Nicolas Peterson --2.From Coombes to Coombs : reflections on the Pitjantjatjara outstation movement /Bill Edwards --3.Returning to country : the Docker River project /Jeremy Long --4.'Shifting' : the Western Arrernte's outstation movement /Diane Austin-Broos --5.History, memory and the politics of self-determination at an early outstation /Fred Myers --6.The interwoven histories of Mount Liebig and Papunya-Luritja /Sarah Holcombe --7.Out of sight, out of mind, but making the best of it : how outstations have worked in the Ngaanyatjarra lands /David Brooks and Vikki Plant --8.Outstations through art : acrylic painting, self determination and the history of the homelands movement in the Pintupi-Ngaanyatjarra lands /Peter Thorley --9.What was Dr Coombs thinking? Nyirrpi, policy and the future /Nicholas Peterson --10.Homelands as outstations of public policy /Kingsley Palmer --11.Challenging simplistic notions of outstations as manifestations of Aboriginal self-determination : Wik strategic engagement and disengagement over the past four decades /David F Martin and Bruce F Martin --12.Peret : a Cape York Peninsula outstation, 1976-1978 /Peter Sutton --13.People and policy in the development and destruction of Yagga Yagga outstation, Western Australia /Scott Cane --14.Imagining Mumeka : bureaucratic and Kuninjku perspectives /Jon Altman --15.Thwarted aspirations : the political economy of a Yolngu outstation, 1972 to the present /Frances Morphy and Howard Morphy --16.A history of Donydji outstation, north-east Arnhem Land /Neville White.

Outstations, which dramatically increased in numbers in the 1970s, are small, decentralised and relatively permanent communities of kin established by Aboriginal people on land that has social, cultural or economic significance to them. In 2015 they yet again came under attack, this time as an expensive lifestyle choice that can no longer be supported by state governments. Yet outstations are the original, and most striking, manifestation of remote-area Aboriginal people's aspirations for self-determination, and of the life projects by which they seek, and have sought, autonomy in deciding the meaning of their life independently of projects promoted by the state and market. They are not simply projects of isolation from outside influences, as they have sometimes been characterised, but attempts by people to take control of the course of their lives. In the sometimes acrimonious debates about outstations, the lived experiences, motivations and histories of existing communities are missing. For this reason, we invited a number of anthropological witnesses to the early period in which outstations gained a purchase in remote Australia to provide accounts of what these communities were like, and what their residents' aspirations and experiences were. Our hope is that these closer-to-the-ground accounts provide insight into, and understanding of, what Indigenous aspirations were in the establishment and organisation of these communities.