Sovereign subjects
Subtitle: indigenous sovereignty matters
By: edited by Aileen Moreton-Robinson.
Contributors: Moreton-Robinson, Aileen.
Series: Cultural studies; Cultural studies
Publisher: Allen & Unwin; Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Crows Nest, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781741147247
Subjects: Aboriginal Australians -- Politics and government.; Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure.; Self-determination, National -- Australia.; Australia -- Race relations.; Australia -- Politics and government.
Other titles: Indigenous sovereignty matters
Description: "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 Indigenous Australia's emerging and well-known critical thinkers examine the implications for Indigenous people of continuing to live in a state founded on invasion. They show how 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. At a time when the old left political agenda has run its course, and the new right is looking increasingly morally bankrupt, Sovereign Subjects sets a new rights agenda for Indigenous politics and Indigenous studies."--Pub. website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Aileen Moreton-Robinson; title: Pt I: Law matters. 1. Settled and unsettled spaces: are we free to roam? / Irene Watson; title: 2. Misconstruing indigenous sovereignty: maintaining the fabric of Australian law / Philip Falk and Gary Martin; title: 3. Indigenous sovereignty rights: international law and the protection of traditional ecological knowledge / Henrietta Marrie; title: Pt II: Writing matters. 4. Dancing with shadows: erasing aboriginal self and sovereignty / Philip Morrissey; title: 5. The sovereign Aboriginal woman / Tracey Bunda; title: 5. Writing off indigenous sovereignty: the discourse of security and patriarchal white sovereignty / Aileen Moreton-Robinson; title: Pt III: History matters. 7. 'The invisible fire': indigenous sovereignty, history and responsibility / Tony Birch; title: 8. The Australian Labor Party and the Native Title Act / Gary Foley; title: 9. That sovereign being: history matters / Wendy Brady; title: Pt IV: Policy matters. 10. Indigenous sovereignty and the Australian state: relations in a globalising era / Maggie Walter; title: 11. Locating indigenous sovereignty: race and research in indigenous health policy-making / Steve Larkin; title: 12. Welfare dependancy and mutual obligation: negating indigenous sovereignty / Darryl Cronin.