An ambivalent hospitality: Aboriginal senior public servants and the representation of others in Australia's self-governing Northern Territory
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Title
An ambivalent hospitality: Aboriginal senior public servants and the representation of others in Australia's self-governing Northern Territory,
Other title
Aboriginal senior public servants and the representation of others in Australia's self-governing Northern Territory,
Creator
Ganter, Elizabeth Joan,
Collection
E-Publications,
E-Books,
PublicationNT,
Thesis,
Date
2010-07,
Abstract
This thesis begins with a history of Aboriginal employment in the Northern Territory administration which concludes that the unplanned accretion of a substantial number of Aboriginal public servants, in 1978, became the new Northern Territory Government‘s opportunity to legitimize itself as a representative bureaucracy.,
Notes
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Australian National University, 2010.,
Table of contents
The research idea -- Part 1: History and theory: an ambivalent invitation 1911-2007 -- The inheritance: Aborigines acquire a 'taste for work' 1911-1977 -- Bringing forth the absent: theories of representation -- Mirror, mirror ...: the mixed messages of Aboriginal employment policy 1978-2007. Part 2: Answering: Aboriginal senior officials 1978-2007 -- The course of acceptance -- The limits of acceptance -- Sustainable selves, practising representatives. Part 3: Conclusion -- From representatives to theorists -- Bibliography -- Appendices A-E,