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Indigenous Peoples as Subjects of International Law book cover

1st Edition

Indigenous Peoples as Subjects of International Law

Edited By Irene Watson Copyright 2018
236 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

For more than 500 years, Indigenous laws have been disregarded. Many appeals for their recognition under international law have been made, but have thus far failed – mainly because international law was itself shaped by colonialism. How, this volume asks, might international law be reconstructed, so that it is liberated from its colonial origins? With contributions from critical legal theory,... Read more

Contents

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Introduction

Irene Watson

1 Aboriginal nations, the Australian nation-state and Indigenous international legal traditions

Ambellin Kwaymullina

2 Domination in relation to Indigenous (‘dominated’) Peoples in international law

Steven Newcomb

3 The ‘Natural’ Law of Nations: Society and the Exclusion of First Nations as Subjects of International Law

Marcelle Burns

4 Long before Munich: the American template for Hitlerian diplomacy

Ward Churchill

5 First Nations, Indigenous Peoples: our laws have always been here

Irene Watson

5 Law and politics of Indigenous self-determination: the meaning of the right to prior consultation

Roger Merino

7 How governments manufacture consent and use it against Indigenous Peoples

Sharon Venne

8 ‘Kill the Indian in the child’: genocide in international law

Tamara Starblanket

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Irene Watson belongs to the Tanganekald, Meintangk and Boandik First Nations Peoples. She is a Professor of Law at the University of South Australia.

 "This book brings together an impressive array of newer and established scholars and thinkers in a thought-provoking, insightful and challenging volume." - Aziz Choudry

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