Marcia Langton
Forfatter af Welcome to Country: A Travel Guide to Indigenous Australia
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Professor Marcia Langton is a professor at Melbourne University and an Indigenous rights activist in Australia. She has received many accolades, including an Order of Australia. She is the author of several books. Her 2018 book, Welcome to Country: A Travel Guide to Indigenous Australia, won the vis mere 2019 Indie Book Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Marcia Langton
Well, I Heard it on the Radio and Saw it on the Television...": An Essay for the Australian Film Commission on the… (1993) 15 eksemplarer
It's Our Country: Indigenous Arguments for Meaningful Constitutional Recognition and Reform (2016) — Redaktør — 12 eksemplarer
After the tent embassy : images of Aboriginal history in black and white photographs (1983) 9 eksemplarer
Boyer Lectures 2012: The Quiet Revolution: Indigenous People and the Resources Boom (2013) 8 eksemplarer
Valuing cultures : recognising indigenous cultures as a valued part of Australian heritage (1994) 7 eksemplarer
Community Futures, Legal Architecture: Foundations for Indigenous Peoples in the Global Mining Boom (2012) 4 eksemplarer
Burning questions: Emerging environmental issues for indigenous peoples in Northern Australia (1998) 4 eksemplarer
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- Langton, Marcia Lynne
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- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Macquarie University (PhD)
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- University of Melbourne
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- Order of Australia (Member, 1993)
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In 2012, Professor Marcia Langton, a descendant of the Yiman and Bidjara people of Queensland, introduced the 53rd series of lectures with a statement that is probably still true today:
While she acknowledges that the numbers are small, they portend an economic future for Aboriginal people unimaginable fifty years ago. Langton herself, she tells us later in the lectures, was born at a time when Indigenous people weren't even counted in the census and were excluded through institutional forms of racial discrimination, from every opportunity for advancement. Indeed, she notes that when in 1968 W.E.H. Stanner gave the Boyer Lectures, After the Dreaming, Black and White Australians, an anthropologist's view —
Indeed it is, and Langton is at her most convincing in the case she makes for a remarkable change in northern Australia, where the Mabo case, and the Native Title Act have enabled opportunities in the mining industry on Indigenous land. This has led to a surge in employment, home ownership, education and training plus the emergence of spin-off enterprises owned by Indigenous people. She is quite right when she that these are not the images we see in the media where the focus is nearly always on poverty, disadvantage and violence. Most Australians, she says, have no idea about the transformation of northern Australia...
But Langton has a combative stance, and she accompanies this good news story with a harsh critique of Left politics, claiming that they hang on to the idea of the 'new noble savage', with a preference for describing Aboriginal poverty and disadvantage through a romantic lens. She is a fierce critic of their implicit support for welfare dependency and their campaigns against economic development on Aboriginal land. Likewise, she has not a good word to say for government activity, which she dismisses as a roundabout of bureaucrats, agencies, websites, application forms and absurd meetings.
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2019/12/02/the-quiet-revolution-boyer-lectures-2012-by-...… (mere)