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Title: |
Unfinished Constitutional Business? |
| Sub-title: |
Rethinking Indigenous Self-Determination |
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| Edited by: |
Barbara Ann Hocking |
| ISBN10-13: |
0855754664 : 9780855754662 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
155x230mm |
| Pages: |
293 |
| Weight: |
.584 Kg. |
| Published: |
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS) - September 2005 |
| List Price: |
24.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Reprint under Consideration
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| Subjects: |
Constitutional & administrative law : Australia |
| Indigenous self-determination is the recognised right of all peoples to freely determine their political status, and pursue their economic, social and cultural development. "Unfinished Constitutional Business" offers fresh insights into the ways Indigenous peoples can chart their own course and realise self-determination. The right to self-determination remains the most hotly contested issue in the UN Working Group's Draft Declaration: because the history of colonisation is emotionally charged, the issue has been clouded by a rhetoric that has sometimes obstructed analysis. This book provides a comprehensive international exploration of Indigenous self-determination. It argues that patterns are emerging that point to effective strategies that will allow Indigenous peoples to realise their goals. The UN Working Group's definition of Indigenous peoples has been influenced by these different experiences of colonisation. Diverse jurisdictions are examined as it surveys both common law and civil law systems: from the Saami Parliaments of Scandinavia, to the Maori seats in the New Zealand Parliament, of the Australian Indigenous peoples struggle for native title and self-governance, to the Canadian experience in territorial governance. A selection of international authors challenge readers to (re)consider the meanings of self-determination and their implic-ations for Indigenous peoples in different contexts. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Introduction: Can Indigenous Peoples' Experiences of Colonisation Reshape our Constitutional Language?; Indigenous Self-determination in the Commonwealth of Nations; Self-determination or 'Deep Colonising': Land Claims, Colonial Authority and Indigenous Representation; Consensus and Sovereignty: Rethinking Policing in the Light of Indigenous Self-determination; Patriarchal Whiteness, Self-determination and Indigenous Women: The Invisibility of Structural Privilege and the Visibility of Oppression; Trust, Truth and Fatuity; Why Norfolk Island But Not Aborigines?; Maori Legal Forum: Representation Issues and the Maori Land Court; Indigenous Political Representation: Identified Parliamentary Seats as a Form of Indigenous Self-determination; Indigenous State Relations in Aotearoa/New Zealand: A Contractual Approach to Self-determination; Kanaka Maoli: Right of Self-determination; The Search for a More Appropriate Form of Government in Solomon Islands; Indigenous Self-determination: Is Canada as Good as it Gets?; Indigeneity, Self-determination and Sovereignty; Indigenous Self-determination: Dispute Management; Sovereignty as a Trojan Horse: How the Convention on Biological Diversity Morphs Biopiracy into Biofraud; Commenced Constitutional Business? Reflections on the Contribution of the Saami Parliaments to Indigenous Self-determination; Conclusion. 'A Change of Sovereignty': During the Age of Empire; Index. |
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