Wild Policy: Indigeneity and the Unruly Logics of Intervention

by Tess Lea

Book Overview

Can there be good social policy? This book describes what happens to Indigenous policy when it targets the supposedly 'wild people' of regional and remote Australia. Tess Lea explores naturalized policy: policy unplugged, gone live, ramifying in everyday life, to show that it is policies that are wild, not the people being targeted. Lea turns the notion of unruliness on its head to reveal a policy-driven world dominated by short term political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150361266X
• ISBN13: 9781503612662
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"