This review presents new perspectives on the anthropology of bureaucracy. Since Weber's
account of the importance of this organizational mode to the functioning of contemporary …

In the current age of rural mobilities and economic restructuring, the ethnic and racial
compositions of rural towns across Anglosphere nations of the Global North have …

The changes in regulation of mineral development on Indigenous people's lands, wrought
by the advent of native title in Australia, created an impression that the political economy of …

In today's global commerce and communication, linguistic diversity is in steady decline
across the world as speakers of smaller languages adopt dominant forms. While this …

This article concerns the relationship between shame and lived experiences of welfare in
Australia, a multicultural settler colony. References to shame abound in the literature dealing …

Using forms of “improvisational realism,” the north Australian‐based Karrrabing Indigenous
Film Collective mimics and plays with strategies of fabulation and faux realism to provoke …

This article examines the urbanization of Tibet. We argue that urbanization is a new
technique of colonial governance for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the People's …

Drawing on campaigns waged and administrative burdens managed by the Gundjeihmi
Aboriginal Corporation (GAC) in Kakadu National Park to manage the effects of existing …

Much historical scholarship on Indigenous education policy focuses on attempts to
assimilate Indigenous peoples. Meanwhile, educational policy debates tend to focus on …

ABSTRACT The Cashless Debit Card ('the card') is a stringent form of welfare quarantining
targeting Aboriginal Australians. Select social security recipients have 80% of their …