$34.99 – Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press / ISBN:9780522856361
The Politics of Suffering
Winner of the 2009 Manning Clarke House Cultural Award and the 2010 John Button Prize for Political Writing.
Have Australian Aboriginal communities become places of increased suffering because of the progressive policies of the 1970s–2000s? In this provocative book, Australia's leading anthropologist, Peter Sutton, looks at these decades of optimism and grief and argues that there has not been a better quality of life for Indigenous Australians. For a significant number, the last thirty years has been a period of decline in safety, in health, in literacy and numeracy, in employment, and in hope. How can this be so? Peter Sutton points to the failures of the past and looks forward to the hopeful rise of a new era.
Peter Sutton is an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow at the University of Adelaide. A world-renowned anthropologist and field linguist, he has worked on land claims across Australia since 1969. His books include Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia and Native Title in Australia: an Ethnographic Perspective.
John Button Prize 2010 Shortlist
The Politics of Suffering
$34.99 – Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press
Winner of the 2009 Manning Clarke House Cultural Award and the 2010 John Button Prize for Political Writing.
Have Australian Aboriginal communities become places of increased suffering because of the progressive policies... Buy or find out more →
The March Of Patriots: The Struggle For Modern Australia
$59.99 – Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press
The March of Patriots looks at the creation of a modern Australia during the 1991–2007 era of Paul Keating and John Howard.
Keating and Howard were the first two Australian prime ministers of the globalised age. They w... Buy or find out more →
The Politics of Suffering
The Politics Of Suffering (New Edition)
$36.99 – Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press
The Politics of Suffering cuts through the cant and offers fresh insight and hope for a new era in Indigenous politics.
"Incandescent, emotional, tragic and challenging' - Marcia Langton
Peter Sutton is a fearless and au... Buy or find out more →
The Politics of Suffering
$34.99 – Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press
Winner of the 2009 Manning Clarke House Cultural Award and the 2010 John Button Prize for Political Writing.
Have Australian Aboriginal communities become places of increased suffering because of the progressive policies... Buy or find out more →
Peter Sutton
The Politics Of Suffering (New Edition)
$36.99 – Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press
The Politics of Suffering cuts through the cant and offers fresh insight and hope for a new era in Indigenous politics.
"Incandescent, emotional, tragic and challenging' - Marcia Langton
Peter Sutton is a fearless and au... Buy or find out more →
The Politics of Suffering
$34.99 – Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press
Winner of the 2009 Manning Clarke House Cultural Award and the 2010 John Button Prize for Political Writing.
Have Australian Aboriginal communities become places of increased suffering because of the progressive policies... Buy or find out more →
Strangers On The Shore: Early Coastal Contact In Australia
$29.95 – Paperback book / National Museum Of Australia
Contacts between Indigenous Australians and outsiders — Macassans, Dutch, English, French and others — are known to have occurred for over 400 years. This book explores these diverse, subtle, dynamic and volatile first e... Buy or find out more →
Dreamings: The Art Of Aboriginal Australia
$69.95 – Hardcover book / Viking
Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia introduces the reader to the extraordinary and arresting art practised by a unique people. Through illuminating narrative and with over 150 full colour illustrations, this book ... Buy or find out more →