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

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 342.08/72
• Soggetto topico: 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; Māori (New Zealand people) - Legal status, laws, etc; Indigenous peoples - Legal status, laws, etc - Canada
• Altri autori: FordLisa <1974-> RowseTim <1951-> YeatmanAnna
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Between indigenous and settler governance
• ISBN: 1-136-19538-6; 0-203-08502-7; 1-283-84501-6; 1-136-19539-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786597603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II