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Trapped in the Gap: Doing Good in Indigenous Australia,Used
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In Australia, a tribe of white, middleclass, progressive professionals is actively working to improve the lives of Indigenous people. This book explores what happens when wellmeaning people, supported by the state, attempt to help without harming. White antiracists find themselves trapped by endless ambiguities, contradictions, and double binds a microcosm of the broader dilemmas of postcolonial societies. These dilemmas are fueled by tension between the twin desires of equality and difference: to make Indigenous people statistically the same as nonIndigenous people (to 'close the gap') while simultaneously maintaining their cultural distinctiveness. This tension lies at the heart of failed development efforts in Indigenous communities, ethnic minority populations and the global South. This book explains why doing good is so hard, and how it could be done differently.
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