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'Incandescent, emotional, tragic and challenging' - Marcia Langton In this groundbreaking book, Peter Sutton asks why, after three decades of liberal thinking, has the suffering and grief in so many Aboriginal communities become worse? The picture Sutton presents is tragic. He marshals shocking evidence against the failures of the past, and argues provocatively that three decades of liberal consensus on Aboriginal issues has collapsed. Sutton is a leading Australian anthropologist who has lived and worked closely with Aboriginal communities. He combines clear-eyed, original observation with deep emotional engagement. The Politics of Suffering cuts through the cant and offers fresh insight and hope for a new era in Indigenous politics.… (más)
CraigHodges: Peter Sutton book cites Neill's work and credits it with giving "a coherent and well-researched account of issues, as well as taking a pretty clear position." Sutton does much the same.
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Sutton finds himself in the opening pages beyond being guarded. He writes from a perspective of having seen enough, having had (adopted) family members die, suffer and struggle - and for what?
In this balanced book he boldly discusses a range of issues that impact on Australian society, it just happens be more narrowly defined as Indigenous society, or as Nicolas Rothwell would say, that 'other country'.
Sutton is worth reading for anyone who claims to be an Australian, especially one that doesn't draw a national boarder that mysteriously stops at the edge of their comfortable suburbs. (We don't need passports to go to the Australian outback, or do we?)
Sutton lends his powerful and respected voice to a series of sensitive debates that were formerly discouraged from being discussed outside of a circle of Indigenous Leaders and Policy Wonks. But as Sutton acknowledges, Dodson's infamous address in the early 2000s ended all that. Dodson effectively called for all Australians to wake up and to take a stand, to understand what was going on in Indigenous communities.
There's much for me to take in from these pages, especially after having traveled (on my own accord) across northern Australia in 2009.
To anyone who has done the same, I would encourage you to pick up this book; and here I am especially going to single out those socially conservative Grey Nomads, young bleeding hearted lefties, and young wannabe Cultural Anthropologists types who I saw straying across the remoter regions of Australia.
After reading Sutton, don't be surprised if, like myself, there is much you wish to articulate about Australia's so called "indigenous affairs". Yet I feel undecided about how much I would encourage anyone to be first tempered with their views by reading the likes of Sutton, Pearson, Langton, Yunupingu, Rothwell and a host of others?
Sutton's unguarded well written book tells me there's much more we ought to be hearing in the way of raw experience and observations about Indigenous Australia, not the least from the people who are impacted directly themselves.
And with this thinking, it may well be too early for any policy gurus to start packaging stories and briefing departments about Indigenous Australia until we (the wider public) have heard more of these voices in our media. ( )
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'Since I am comming to that Holy roome, Where, with thy Quire of Saints for evermore, I shall be made thy Musique; As I come I tune the Instrument here at the dore, And what I must doe then, thinke here before. ... I joy, that in these straits, I see my West; For, though theire currants yeeld return to none, What shall my West hurt me? As West and East In all flatt Maps (and I am one) are one, So death doth touch the Resurrection. ... So, in his purple wrapp'd receive mee Lord, By these his thornes give me his other Crowne; And as to others soules I preach'd thy word, Be this my Text, my Sermon to mine owne, Therfore that he may raise the Lord throws down. (John Donne - Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, London circa 1623) Closing epigraph found on page 215
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In September 2000 I returned from a particularly harrowing visit to a remote Aboriginal community with which I have had a close personal and professional association since the mid 1970s. This was Aurukun, in Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, the main home of the Wik people. I lived there, mainly in outstations, for long periods in the 1970s and have visited frequently between 1973 and 2007.
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Then, as now, some prominent people in the field of Indigenous policy have never lived daily with the reality of the conditions many Indigenous people contend with, often seeing only a brief presentation of local life on the settlements, which are usually and naturally putting their best feet forward on the day. Not infrequently this is an official experience sandwiched between air flights taken on the same day. As the late Francis Yunkaporta of Aurunkun once put it, addressing the state minister at a public meeting of exactly this kind, officials visiting remote communities can be seen to be tippin' elbow (looking at their watches) as the afternoon of their brief transit in the tropics wears on. (page 51)
For years, like so many others, I had refrained from much public engagement with Indigenous political issues because of the rising Indigenous leadership and its increasing capacity to carry the burden, and because Whitefellas were increasingly unwelcome in the exposed positions of the Aboriginal political front line. But by 2000, given the critical situation so many people were in, an all-hands-on-deck approach had become necessary. Not long afterwards, Mick Dodson took the same view in a televised address to the National Press Club in Canberra (Australia), calling on the then prime minister and national and state governments to join with Indigenous Australians to take decisive collaborative action on violence and dysfunction in Aboriginal communities:'This is not just our problem; this is everyone's problem,' he told the nation. (page 5)
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'Incandescent, emotional, tragic and challenging' - Marcia Langton In this groundbreaking book, Peter Sutton asks why, after three decades of liberal thinking, has the suffering and grief in so many Aboriginal communities become worse? The picture Sutton presents is tragic. He marshals shocking evidence against the failures of the past, and argues provocatively that three decades of liberal consensus on Aboriginal issues has collapsed. Sutton is a leading Australian anthropologist who has lived and worked closely with Aboriginal communities. He combines clear-eyed, original observation with deep emotional engagement. The Politics of Suffering cuts through the cant and offers fresh insight and hope for a new era in Indigenous politics.
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Sutton finds himself in the opening pages beyond being guarded. He writes from a perspective of having seen enough, having had (adopted) family members die, suffer and struggle - and for what?
In this balanced book he boldly discusses a range of issues that impact on Australian society, it just happens be more narrowly defined as Indigenous society, or as Nicolas Rothwell would say, that 'other country'.
Sutton is worth reading for anyone who claims to be an Australian, especially one that doesn't draw a national boarder that mysteriously stops at the edge of their comfortable suburbs. (We don't need passports to go to the Australian outback, or do we?)
Sutton lends his powerful and respected voice to a series of sensitive debates that were formerly discouraged from being discussed outside of a circle of Indigenous Leaders and Policy Wonks. But as Sutton acknowledges, Dodson's infamous address in the early 2000s ended all that. Dodson effectively called for all Australians to wake up and to take a stand, to understand what was going on in Indigenous communities.
There's much for me to take in from these pages, especially after having traveled (on my own accord) across northern Australia in 2009.
To anyone who has done the same, I would encourage you to pick up this book; and here I am especially going to single out those socially conservative Grey Nomads, young bleeding hearted lefties, and young wannabe Cultural Anthropologists types who I saw straying across the remoter regions of Australia.
After reading Sutton, don't be surprised if, like myself, there is much you wish to articulate about Australia's so called "indigenous affairs". Yet I feel undecided about how much I would encourage anyone to be first tempered with their views by reading the likes of Sutton, Pearson, Langton, Yunupingu, Rothwell and a host of others?
Sutton's unguarded well written book tells me there's much more we ought to be hearing in the way of raw experience and observations about Indigenous Australia, not the least from the people who are impacted directly themselves.
And with this thinking, it may well be too early for any policy gurus to start packaging stories and briefing departments about Indigenous Australia until we (the wider public) have heard more of these voices in our media. (