Sovereign Subjects: Indigenous Sovereignty Matters

ISBN-13: 9780367719425 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 256 str.

Aileen Moreton-Robinson

Opis

Some of Indigenous Australia's emerging and well-known thinkers offer a critical perspective on the most important political and cultural issues facing Indigenous people today and set the agenda for further action.

Spis treści

Series editor's foreword (Jon Stratton)

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Introduction (Aileen Moreton-Robinson)

Part I: Law matters

1. Settled and unsettled spaces: Are we free to roam? (Irene Watson)

2. Misconstruing Indigenous sovereignty: Maintaining the fabric of Australian law (Phillip Falk and Gary Martin)

3. Indigenous sovereignty rights: International law and the protection of traditional ecological knowledge (Henrietta Marrie)

Part II: Writing matters

4. Dancing with shadows: erasing Aboriginal self and sovereignty (Philip Morrissey)

5. The sovereign Aboriginal woman (Tracey Bunda)

6. Writing off Indigenous sovereignty: The discourse of security and patriarchal white sovereignty (Aileen Moreton-Robinson)

Part III: History matters

7. 'The invisible fire': Indigenous sovereignty, history and responsibility (Tony Birch)

8. The Australian Labor Party and the Native Title Act (Gary

O autorze

Aileen Moreton-Robinson is a Geonpul scholar and Professor of Indigenous Studies at Queensland University of Technology. She is author of Talkin' Up to the White Woman and editor of Whitening Race.