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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462676103321

Titolo

Between indigenous and settler governance / / edited by Lisa Ford and Tim Rowse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

0-203-08502-7

1-283-84501-6

1-136-19539-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FordLisa <1974->

RowseTim <1951->

YeatmanAnna

Disciplina

342.08/72

Soggetti

Indigenous peoples - Legal status, laws, etc

Jurisdiction

Indigenous peoples - Government relations

Aboriginal Australians - Legal status, laws, etc - Australia

Indians of North America - Legal status, laws, etc

Maori (New Zealand people) - Legal status, laws, etc

Indigenous peoples - Legal status, laws, etc - Canada

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A GlassHouse book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures and maps; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; 1 Locating indigenous self-determination in the margins of settler sovereignty: an introduction; 2 Vattel in revolutionary America: from the rules of war to the rule of law; 3 Settler sovereignty and the shapeshifting Crown; 4 'It would only be just': a study of territoriality and trading posts along the Mackenzie River 1800-27; 5 Pan-nationalism as a crisis management strategy: John Ross and the Tahlequah conference of 1843

6 Obstacles to 'a proper exercise of jurisdiction' - sorcery andcriminal justice in the settler-indigenous encounter in Australia7 Vanished theocracies: Christianity, war and politics in colonial New Zealand



1830-80; 8 When settlers went to war against Christianity; 9 The identity of indigenous political thought; 10 Economy, change and self-determination: a Central Australian case; 11 Land rights and development in Australia: caring for, benefiting from, governing the indigenous estate; 12 Indigenous land rights and self-government: inseparable entitlements

13 Three perversities of Indian law14 Section 223 and the shape of native title: the limits of jurisdictional thinking; 15 Whakaeke i nga ngaru - riding the waves: Maori legal traditions in New Zealand public life; 16 Indigenous jurisdiction as a provocation of settler state political theory: the significance of human boundaries; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 whi