- Title
- The cultural politics of Indigenous struggles and Aboriginal riots
- Creator
- Morris, Barry
- Relation
- The Oxford Handbook of the History of Crime and Criminal Justice
- Relation
- Oxford Handbooks
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264079.013.116
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- In examining Aboriginal riots, the conditions of political antagonism and the distinct ways these relations of antagonism are played out take precedence. Ethnographic approaches that analyze the substance of situated cultural meanings are central to understanding these relations. Drawing upon Allen Feldman’s ethnographic account of the “Troubles” in Northern Ireland for some of its interpretive framework, this article surveys the methodological value and importance the Manchester School of Anthropology placed on “atypical events,” moments when irresolvable tensions boil to the surface. For anthropologists, what is important in understanding riots is the manner in which participants themselves extract meanings in violence. What do they say about the violence? How is it culturally situated in particular social and political contexts? Different antagonists create their own moral economy that then legitimates their repertoires of violence.
- Subject
- Aboriginal riots; Aboriginal deaths in police custody; atypical events; cultural politics; Indigenous rights; settler colonialism; race
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1341488
- Identifier
- uon:28751
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780199352333
- Language
- eng
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