Sovereign Subjects: Indigenous Sovereignty Matters

ISBN-13: 9781741147247 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 256 str.

Aileen Moreton-Robinson

Opis

These essays on indigenous rights by Australia s emerging and established intellectuals examine the implications for those continuing to live in a state founded on invasion. Exploring implications in law, writing, history, and public policy, this discussion shows that for indigenous people self-determination, welfare dependency, representation, cultural maintenance, history writing, reconciliation, land ownership, and justice are all inextricably linked to the original act of dispossession by white settlers and the ongoing loss of sovereignty. Especially important in light of the problematic interventions in remote communities in 2007, this collection offers a new agenda for indigenous politics and studies."

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.