Just Relations
The Story of Mary Bennett's Crusade for Aboriginal Rights
$66.33
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2015
Summary
This book charts the life and work of one of Australia’s leading twentieth century human rights advocates. It recovers the efforts of Mary Bennett (1881-1961) to found a ‘just relationship’ between Aborigines and non-Aborigines in Australia from the late 1920s, when the possibility of Aboriginal human rights was first mooted on the international stage, to the 1960s, when an attempt was made to have the Aboriginal question raised before the United Nations.
By placing Bennett’s biograp…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781742586878 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1742586872 |
| Author: | Alison Holland |
| Publisher: | UWA Publishing |
| Imprint: | UWAP |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2015 |
| Weight: | 686g |
| Dimensions: | 43mm x 364mm x 158mm |
| Series: | UWAP Scholarly |
About The Author
Alison Holland
After being awarded a PhD in history at the University of New South Wales in 1998, Alison Holland held a variety of research and academic positions, before being appointed a lecturer in the Department of Modern History at Macquarie University in 2005. She has taught a variety of Australian history subjects, including environmental and Aboriginal history. She specialises in Aboriginal-settler relations which she now teaches in a global comparative frame. Alison has published widely on issues of Aboriginal and feminist history, as well as a related interest in citizenship, in a range of national and international journals and books, and is co-editor of Rethinking the Racial Moment: Essays on the Colonial Encounter. In 2013⁄14 she won the Frederick Watson Fellowship at the National Archives of Australia where she focused on Aboriginal policy and governance in the Northern Territory between 1930 and 1950.
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