Sovereign Subjects Indigenous Sovereignty Matters

by Moreton-Robinson, Aileen

• ISBN13: 9781741147247
• ISBN10: 1741147247
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Aileen Moreton-Robinson is a Geonpul scholar and professor of indigenous studies at Queensland University of Technology. She is the author of Talkin' Up to the White Woman and editor of Whitening Race.

Table of Contents

Senior editor's foreword
Introduction	p. 1
Settled and unsettled spaces: Are we free to roam?	p. 15
Misconstruing Indigenous sovereignty: Maintaining the fabric of Australian law	p. 33
Indigenous sovereignty rights: International law and the protection of traditional ecological knowledge	p. 47
Dancing with shadows: Erasing Aboriginal self and sovereignty	p. 65
The sovereign Aboriginal woman	p. 75
Writing off Indigenous sovereignty: The discourse of security and patriarchal white sovereignty	p. 86
'The invisible fire': Indigenous sovereignty, history and responsibility	p. 105
The Australian Labor Party and the Native Title Act	p. 118
That sovereign being: History matters	p. 140
Indigenous sovereignty and the Australian state: Relations in a globalising era	p. 155
Locating Indigenous sovereignty: Race and research in Indigenous health policy-making	p. 168
Welfare dependency and mutual obligation: Negating Indigenous sovereignty	p. 179
Notes	p. 201
References	p. 208
Index	p. 234
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