ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the changing relations between the Dhan-gadi and the state between the mid-nineteenth century, when Europeans first occupied the valley, and the present. It focuses on how changing configurations of power partly structured Dhan-gadi responses and how, in turn, continuous attempts by the Dhan-gadi to resist incorporation into an encompassing state system subverted and modified the power of the state. Because the Macleay Valley has been long colonised and intensively settled by Europeans, the chapter provides an ideal setting in which to study the development and transformation of colonial relations between an indigenous population and the state. Foucault reformulates the concept of power in bourgeois society by expanding the focus of its analysis. The extensive forms of control are exercised through 'disciplinary power', which is 'positive and productive' as it seeks to transform the affective make-up of the individual through the disciplining of the body.
