David Baker David Baker i(17029054 works by)
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1 Jim Jarcusch's Mystery Train (1989) : Representing the Memphis Music Legacy on Film Adriano Tedde , David Baker , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: Remembering Popular Music's Past 2019;
1 [Review] The Way We Civilise David Baker , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Queensland Review , October vol. 4 no. 2 1997; (p. 87-89)
— Review of The Way We Civilise Rosalind Kidd , 1997 single work criticism 'Rosalind Kidd's singularly important history of the administration of Aboriginal Affairs in Queensland seeks to range "beyond the conventional repression/liberation frameworks which have dominated aboriginal studies during the last twenty years". Kidd doesn't want to think of government as an "effect of ideology" where different institutions - church, state, health, media etc. - all run the same repressive racist line. Rather, the picture of government that emerges in this work is a picture of liberal government in the widest sense: government as a site of the formation, administration and problematisation of various objects (in this instance "aboriginal population") as well as government as a kind of brokering agency, an institution that negotiates with and trades off the various competing interest groups who are constituted as "stake-holders" in relation to those objects of governance.' (Introduction) 
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