Indigenous Law and the Politics of Kincentricity and Orality

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-19238-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 142 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 333 g

This Palgrave Pivot strives to recount and understand Indigenous Law, as set within a remote community in northern Australia. It pays close attention to the realpolitik and high-level political functioning of Indigenous Laws, which inspires a discussion of how this Law models the relational, influences governance and emplaces people in an ordered kincentric lifeworld. The book argues that Indigenous Law can be examined for the ways in which it is a deliberate, stabilizing and powerful force to maintain communal order in relation to Country, a counter framing to popular and ‘soft law or soft power asset’ visions of such Laws often held in the national and international imaginary. It is the latter which too often renders this knowledge esoteric and relinquishes it to a category of lore or folklore. 

This is an open access book.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kearney, Amanda

Bradley, John

Dodd, Vincent

A-Karrakayny, Annie

Norman a-Marrngawi, Dinah

Timothy A-Muluwamara, Mavis

Dimanyurru, Graham Friday

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Rechtssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction-Indigenous Laws as realpolitik.- Chapter 2 Yanyuwa Law.- Chapter 3 - A Testimony of Kincentric Order.- Chapter 4 - More than Soft Power.- Chapter 5. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Amanda Kearney is a Professorial Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

John Bradley is Associate Professor in the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Monash University and Director of the Wunungu Awara Indigenous Cultural Animation Program, Australia.

Vincent Dodd is a PhD candidate in the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Monash University, Australia.

Dinah Norman a-Marrngawi is a Yanyuwa Community Elder, li-Wirdiwalangu Elders Group, Northern Territory, Australia.

Mavis Timothy a-Muluwamara is a Yanyuwa Community Elder, li-Wirdiwalangu Elders Group, Northern Territory, Australia.

Graham Friday Dimanyurru was a Yanyuwa Community Elder, li-Wirdiwalangu Elders Group, Northern Territory, Australia.

Annie a-Karrakayny was a Yanyuwa Community Elder, li-Wirdiwalangu Elders Group, Northern Territory, Australia.