Visions and Violence of Policy: An ethnography of Indigenous Affairs bureaucratic reform in the Northern Territory of Australia
How does a public policy reform become seemingly inevitable? How and why does bureaucratic “common sense” override empirical evidence? What are the overlaps between accountability and corruption? These open-ended questions drive my study of a neglected object of analysis: the well-intentioned people...
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| 520 | |a How does a public policy reform become seemingly inevitable? How and why does bureaucratic “common sense” override empirical evidence? What are the overlaps between accountability and corruption? These open-ended questions drive my study of a neglected object of analysis: the well-intentioned people and institutions working within Australia’s Indigenous affairs local government policy arena. In July 2008 the Northern Territory’s local government sector underwent the most sweeping reform of its history, when 53 councils (governing predominantly rural and majority-Indigenous communities) were forcibly amalgamated into eight regional shires. According to the official narrative, the sector had reached a point of crisis: many councils were administratively too small to manage their growing responsibilities. Despite trenchant popular opposition, amalgamations were justified as technically effective, financially efficient -- even morally imperative. Based on a decade of ethnographic research in the Northern Territory including extensive interviews and professional involvement over many years, my thesis moves beyond an empirical evaluation of these events to explore how government actors establish, maintain and self-assess a policy reform. Despite bureaucracy’s claims on rationality and evidence, I argue that factors such morality, routines and aesthetics play more important roles in policy formation than acknowledged. Influenced by the Deleuzian concepts of assemblage and the minor event, I analyse this reform through mundane bureaucratic habits, obscured settler colonial social relations, and near-forgotten events: the rendering of Indigenous totemic art into a corporate logo; a sport and recreation funding agreement as a site of bureaucratic violence; the mobilisation of a created statistic. This perspective invites an alternative to orthodox policy evaluation, whereby the policy cycle is understood ecologically, as a complex assemblage of force, violence and effect. In July 2008 the Northern Territory’s local government sector underwent the most sweeping reform of its history, when 53 councils (governing predominantly rural and majority-Indigenous communities) were forcibly amalgamated into eight regional shires. According to the official narrative, the sector had reached a point of crisis: many councils were administratively too small to manage their growing responsibilities. Despite trenchant popular opposition, amalgamations were justified as technically effective, financially efficient -- even morally imperative. Based on a decade of ethnographic research in the Northern Territory including extensive interviews and professional involvement over many years, my thesis moves beyond an empirical evaluation of these events to explore how government actors establish, maintain and self-assess a policy reform. Despite bureaucracy’s claims on rationality and evidence, I argue that factors such morality, routines and aesthetics play more important roles in policy formation than acknowledged. Influenced by the Deleuzian concepts of assemblage and the minor event, I analyse this reform through mundane bureaucratic habits, obscured settler colonial social relations, and near-forgotten events: the rendering of Indigenous totemic art into a corporate logo; a sport and recreation funding agreement as a site of bureaucratic violence; the mobilisation of a created statistic. This perspective invites an alternative to orthodox policy evaluation, whereby the policy cycle is understood ecologically, as a complex assemblage of force, violence and effect | ||
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