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020			_a9781503612662
082			_a323.1199159 LEA-T
100			_aLea, Tess
245			_aWild policy : _bindigeneity and the unruly logics of intervention / _cTess Lea
260			_aCalifornia _bStanford University Press _c2020
300			_a207p.
440			_aAnthropology of Policy
500			_aCan 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 interests and their erratic, irrational effects, and by the less obvious protection of long-term interests in resource extraction and the liberal settler lifestyles this sustains. Wild Policy argues policies are not about undoing the big causes of enduring inequality, and do not ameliorate harms terribly well either―without yielding all hope. Drawing on efforts across housing and infrastructure, resistant media-making, health, governance and land tenure battles in regional and remote Australia, Wild Policy looks at how the logics of intervention are formulated and what this reveals in answer to the question: why is it all so hard? Lea offers readers a layered, multi-relational approach called policy ecology to probe the related question, 'what is to be done?' Lea's case material will resonate with analysts across the world who deal with infrastructures, policy, technologies, mining, militarization, enduring colonial legacies, and the Anthropocene.
650			_aAboriginal Australians - Government Relations
650			_aAboriginal Australians - Government Policy
650			_aAboriginal Australians - Social conditions - Australia - Social Policy
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