Indigenous Invisibility in the City Successful Resurgence and Community Development Hidden in Plain Sight

• Main Author: Howard-Wagner, Deirdre
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2020; Knowledge Unlatched GmbH; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
• Subjects: Aboriginal Australians; Anthropology; Chief Executive Officer; cities; Community development; Deirdre Howard-Wagner; Development studies; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; Ethnic studies; Indians of North America; Indigenous Community Development; indigenous development; Indigenous Disadvantage; Indigenous Invisibility in the City; Indigenous Peoples; indigenous recovery; Indigenous Resurgence; Interdisciplinary studies; Local Aboriginal Land Council; Maori (New Zealand people); migration; NAIDOC; Nations Peoples; Newcastle City Council; NSW Aborigine; NSW National Parks; organisation building; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Regional and area planning; relocation; Settler Colonial Cities; Social groups, communities and identities; social mobilisation; Social Science; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology; Sociology & Social Policy; Sociology and anthropology; Sociology, Urban; Torres Strait Islander; Torres Strait Islander Peoples; urban; Urban and municipal planning and policy; Urban communities; Urban Sociology; Deirdre Howard-Wagner; community development; Settler-colonial cities; Surry Hills; social mobilisation; Indigenous Community Development; NSW Department; Indigenous invisibility; Torres Strait Islander Peoples; Rainbow Serpent; Indigenous Disadvantage; Torres Strait Islander; Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner; Indigenous Social Relations; Local Aboriginal Land Council; Chief Executive Officer; Neoliberal Age; Indigenous Resurgence; Settler Colonial Cities; Practical Reconciliation; Newcastle City Council; NSW Aborigine; cities; NSW National Parks; NSW Land; organisation building; indigenous recovery; Nations Peoples; relocation; Ceo; Indigenous Invisibility in the City; NAIDOC; Poverty Governance; urban; Indigenous Homelessness; migration; indigenous development; social recovery; First nations peoples; Aboriginal Medical Service; Indigenous social infrastructure
• ISBN: 0367672006; 9781138583559; 1138583553; 9780367672003; 9780429014536; 0429014554; 0429014546; 9780429506512; 9780429014550; 9780429014543; 0429506511; 0429014538
• DOI: 10.4324/9780429506512

Indigenous Invisibility in the City contextualises the significant social change in Indigenous life circumstances and resurgence that came out of social movements in cities. It is about Indigenous resurgence and community development by First Nations people for First Nations people in cities. Seventy-five years ago, First Nations peoples began a significant post-war period of relocation to cities in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Aotearoa New Zealand. First Nations peoples engaged in projects of resurgence and community development in the cities of the four settler states. First Nations peoples, who were motivated by aspirations for autonomy and empowerment, went on to create the foundations of Indigenous social infrastructure. This book explains the ways First Nations people in cities created and took control of their own futures. A fact largely wilfully ignored in policy contexts. Today, differences exist over the way governments and First Nations peoples see the role and responsibilities of Indigenous institutions in cities. What remains hidden in plain sight is their societal function as a social and political apparatus through which much of the social processes of Indigenous resurgence and community development in cities occurred. The struggle for self-determination in settler cities plays out through First Nations people’s efforts to sustain their own institutions and resurgence, but also rights and recognition in cities. This book will be of interest to Indigenous studies scholars, urban sociologists, urban political scientists, urban studies scholars, and development studies scholars interested in urban issues and community building and development. This book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.