Experiments in Self-Determination : Histories of the Outstation Movement in Australia.

Intro -- List of maps -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface and acknowledgements -- The origins and history of outstations as Aboriginal life projects -- History and memory -- From Coombes to Coombs: Reflections on the Pitjantjatjara outstation movement -- Returning to country: The Docker River project -- 'Shifting': The Western Arrernte's outstation movement -- Western Desert complexities -- History, memory and the politics of self-determination at an early outstation -- The interwoven histories of Mount Liebig and Papunya-Luritja -- Out of sight, out of mind, but making the best of it: How outstations have worked in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands -- Outstations through art: Acrylic painting, self‑determination and the history of the homelands movement in the Pintupi‑Ngaanyatjarra Lands -- Policy visions and their realisation -- What was Dr Coombs thinking? Nyirrpi, policy and the future -- Homelands as outstations of public policy -- Challenging simplistic notions of outstations as manifestations of Aboriginal self-determination: Wik strategic engagement and disengagement over the past four decades -- Peret: A Cape York Peninsula outstation, 1976-1978 -- Frustrated aspirations -- People and policy in the development and destruction of Yagga Yagga outstation, Western Australia -- Imagining Mumeka: Bureaucratic and Kuninjku perspectives -- Thwarted aspirations: The political economy of a Yolngu outstation, 1972 to the present -- A history of Donydji outstation, north-east Arnhem Land -- Contributors -- Index.

Outstations, which dramatically increased in numbers in the 1970s, are small, decentralised and relatively permanent communities of kin established by Aboriginal people on land that has social, cultural or economic significance to them.

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