Between Indigenous and Settler Governance

ISBN 10: 0415699703 / ISBN 13: 9780415699709

Published by Routledge, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Between Indigenous and Settler Governance
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415699703
• ISBN 13: 9780415699709
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Used; Very Good

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Synopsis

Between Indigenous and Settler Governance addresses the history, current development and future of Indigenous self-governance in four settler-colonial nations: Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. Bringing together emerging scholars and leaders in the field of indigenous law and legal history, this collection offers a long-term view of the legal, political and administrative relationships between Indigenous collectivities and nation-states. Placing historical contingency and complexity at the center of analysis, the papers collected here examine in detail the process by which settler states both dissolved indigenous jurisdictions and left spaces – often unwittingly – for indigenous survival and corporate recovery. They emphasise the promise and the limits of modern opportunities for indigenous self-governance; whilst showing how all the players in modern settler colonialism build on a shared and multifaceted past. Indigenous tradition is not the only source of the principles and practices of indigenous self-determination; the essays in this book explore some ways that the legal, philosophical and economic structures of settler colonial liberalism have shaped opportunities for indigenous autonomy. Between Indigenous and Settler Governance will interest all those concerned with Indigenous peoples in settler-colonial nations.

About the Author

Lisa Ford is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of New South Wales; Tim Rowse is a professor at the University of Western Sydney