The Present Politics of the Past: Indigenous Legal Activism and Resistance to Neoliberal Governmemtality

ISBN-13: 9780415949606 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 296 str.

Sean Patrick Eudaily

Opis

This work applies Jacques Derrida's framework of "spectropolitics" to (post)coloniality in order to investigate the emergence of indigenous peoples' movements, advances a poststructural approach to the analysis of liberal politics based upon the historical sociology of Michel Foucault, and critically engages the literatures on ethnic politics, critical legal studies, and multicultural democracy. In addition, two historical case dossiers (the Mabo v. Queensland decision and its aftermath in Australia; and the diverse legal strategies of First Nations activism in Canada following the Delgamuukw v. B.C. decision) focus on the "strategic space" in which new indigenous political identities are produced and performed.

Spis treści

1. Opening Statements: Clearing a Space for Thought 2. Interrogations: An Hauntology of Indigenous Peoples in World Politics 3. Governing Free Subjects: A Genealogy of (Neo)Liberal Governmentality 4. Specters of Colonialism: Indigenous Legal Practice as Deconstructive Jurisprudence DOSSIERS Introduction DOSSIER ONE: Native Title in Australia DOSSIER TWO: Native Title in Canada5. Judgements: Indigenous Legal Claims Beyond the Limits of Liberalism

O autorze

Seán Patrick Eudaily