Watson Indigenous Peoples as Subjects of International Law

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-24065-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 236 Seiten

Reihe: Indigenous Peoples and the Law

For more than 500 years, Indigenous laws have been disregarded. Many appeals for their recognition under international law have been made, but have thus far failed – mainly because international law was itself shaped by colonialism. How, this volume asks, might international law be reconstructed, so that it is liberated from its colonial origins?

With contributions from critical legal theory, international law, critical anthropology, politics, philosophy and Indigenous history, this volume pursues a cross-disciplinary analysis of the international legal exclusion of Indigenous Peoples, and of its relationship to global injustice. Beyond the issue of Indigenous Peoples’ rights, however, this analysis is set within the broader context of sustainability; arguing that Indigenous laws, philosophy and knowledge are not only legally valid, but offer an essential approach to questions of ecological justice and the co-existence of all life on earth.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Watson, Irene

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Umweltrecht Umweltrecht allg., Technikrecht, Immissionsschutzrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Introduction

Irene Watson

1 Aboriginal nations, the Australian nation-state and Indigenous international legal traditions

Ambellin Kwaymullina

2 Domination in relation to Indigenous (‘dominated’) Peoples in international law

Steven Newcomb

3 Natural law and the law of nations: ‘society’ and the exclusion of First Nations as subjects of international law

Marcelle Burns

4 Long before Munich: the American template for Hitlerian diplomacy

Ward Churchill

5 First Nations, Indigenous Peoples: our laws have always been here

Irene Watson

5 Law and politics of Indigenous self-determination: the meaning of the right to prior consultation

Roger Merino

7 How governments manufacture consent and use it against Indigenous Peoples

Sharon Venne

8 ‘Kill the Indian in the child’: genocide in international law

Tamara Starblanket

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Irene Watson belongs to the Tanganekald, Meintangk and Boandik First Nations Peoples. She is a Professor of Law and was recently appointed as the Pro Vice Chancellor Aboriginal Leadership and Strategy at the University of South Australia.