1st Edition

The Present Politics of the Past Indigenous Legal Activism and Resistance to (Neo)Liberal Governmentality

By Seán Patrick Eudaily Copyright 2004
296 Pages
by Routledge

292 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

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.... Read more
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

Biography

Seán Patrick Eudaily