1st Edition
Sovereign Subjects Indigenous sovereignty matters
Edited By Aileen Moreton-Robinson
Copyright 2007
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Indigenous rights in Australia are at a crossroads. Over the past decade, neo-liberal governments have reasserted their claim to land in Australia, and refuse to either negotiate with the Indigenous owners or to make amends for the damage done by dispossession. Many Indigenous communities are in a parlous state, under threat both physically and culturally. In Sovereign Subjects some of... Read more
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
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
Biography
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.
