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love #dat settler state
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for the next time a technocrat faffs on about how everything would be ok If People Just Respected Statistics And Data: | |
Through the state's statistical fetishism, a de-contextualised and dated | |
statistic derived from vague sources comes to represent reality. Zombie-like, | |
this statisic rises from the grave, consuming hunters, fishers and gatherers | |
and their bush foods along with entire outstations so that they can no longer | |
be seen by the state. Fetishised, it gains a magical power over other evidence | |
that either challenges or contextualises it. It also gains a power over | |
Indigenous communities, as this statistical abstraction becomes a means for | |
creting their reality rather than merely representing it. It is used as | |
justification for the removal of one of the few formal avenues of state support | |
for customary harvest and bush foods. | |
- from "Indigenous Rangers and the Customary Economy", in People on Country (2012) |
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Sep 8, 2013
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