THE ONTOLOGICAL POLITICS OF ‘CLOSING THE GAPS’

In Australia and New Zealand, the realization of the knowledge object ‘national population’ makes it necessary to involve Indigenous Australians and Māori in the Census. Both Indigenous peoples have engaged in the Census and have made use of the resulting official statistics in their self-representation as peoples not yet accorded social justice. This paper considers two of the issues of representing Indigenous peoples as populations: where to...