Culture Crisis Anthropology and Politics in Aboriginal Australia

In 2007 th eAustralian government declared that remote Aboriginal communities were in crisis and launched the Northern Territory Intervention. This dramatic move occurred against a backdrip of vigorous debate among policy makers, academics, commentators and Aboriginal people about the apparent failure of self-determination. -- back cover.

Jon Altman is a social scientist and an Australian Research Council Australian Professorial Fellow at the Center for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research. Melinda Hinkson is an anthropology professor and the chairman of the Visual Culture Research program at the Australian National University. She is the coeditor of An Appreciation of Difference: WEH Stanner and Aboriginal Australia. They are the coeditors of Coercive Reconciliation: Stabilise, Normalise, Exit Aboriginal Australia.