Sovereign Subjects: Indigenous Sovereignty Matters

✍ Scribed by Aileen Moreton-Robinson

• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

These essays on indigenous rights by Australia’s emerging and established intellectuals examine the implications for those continuing to live in a state founded on invasion. Exploring implications in law, writing, history, and public policy, this discussion shows that for indigenous people self-determination, welfare dependency, representation, cultural maintenance, history writing, reconciliation, land ownership, and justice are all inextricably linked to the original act of dispossession by white settlers and the ongoing loss of sovereignty. Especially important in light of the problematic interventions in remote communities in 2007, this collection offers a new agenda for indigenous politics and studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Dedication Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Series editor’s foreword
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction
Part I: Law matters
1 Settled and unsettled spaces: Are we free to roam?
2 Misconstruing Indigenous sovereignty: Maintaining the fabric of Australian law
3 Indigenous sovereignty rights: International law and the protection of traditional ecological knowledge
Part II: Writing matters
4 Dancing with shadows: Erasing Aboriginal self and sovereignty
5 The sovereign Aboriginal woman
6 Writing off Indigenous sovereignty: The discourse of security and patriarchal white sovereignty
Part III: History matters
7 ‘The invisible fire’: Indigenous sovereignty, history and responsibility
8 The Australian Labor Party and the Native Title Act
9 That sovereign being: History matters
Part IV: Policy matters
10 Indigenous sovereignty and the Australian state: Relations in a globalising era
11 Locating Indigenous sovereignty: Race and research in Indigenous health policy-making
12 Welfare dependency and mutual obligation: Negating Indigenous sovereignty
Notes
References
Index