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Title

Unfinished constitutional business? : rethinking indigenous self-determination / edited by Barbara Ann Hocking.

Author

Hocking, Barbara Ann

Publication

[Canberra] : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2005.

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Additional Authors

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

Description

xxiii, 293 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

A comparative approach to the Indigeneity and the experience of colonisation. From Australia to the Solomons, to the USA to Canada, the experience of colonisation in those colonies involved either the introduction of a common law system or an introduced civil law system.

Subject

• Aboriginal Australians > Politics and government
• Aboriginal Australians > Legal status, laws, etc
• Self-determination, National > Australia
• Aboriginal Australians > Social conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

System Details (note)

• Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: can Indigenous peoples' experiences of colonisation reshape our constitutional language? / Barbara Ann Hocking -- 1. Self-determination or 'deep colonising': land claims, colonial authority and Indigenous representation / John Bradley and Kathryn Seton -- 3. Consensus and sovereignty: rethinking policing in the light of indigenous self-determination / Chris Cunneen -- 4. Patriarchal whiteness, self-determination and Indigenous women: the invisibility of structural privilege and the visibility of oppression / Aileen Moreton-Robinson -- 5. Trust, truth and fatuity / Philip Morrissey -- 6. Why Norfolk Island but not Aborigines? / Michael Mansell -- 7. Maori legal forum: representation issues and the Maori Land Court / Andrew Erueti -- 8. Indigenous political representation: identified parliamentary seats as a form of indigenous self-determination / Catherine J. Iorns Magallanes -- 9. Indigenous state relations in Aotearoa / New Zealand: a contractual approach to self-determination / John Buick-Constable -- 10. Kanaka Maoli: right of self-determination / Joshua Cooper -- 11. The search for a more appropriate form of government in Solomon Islands / Jennifer Corrin Care -- 12. Indigenous self-determination: is Canada as good as it gets? / Peter H. Russell -- 13. Indigeneity, self-determination and sovereignty / Anne Waters -- 14. Indigenous self-determination: dispute management / Cleopatra Magwaro -- 15. Sovereignty as a Trojan horse: how the Convention on Biological Diversity morphs biopiracy into biofraud / Joseph Henry Vogel -- 16. Commenced constitutional business? Reflections on the contribution of the Saami parliaments to Indigenous self-determination / Barbara AS Hocking -- Conclusion: 'A change of sovereignty': during the Age of Empire / Barbara J. Hocking.

ISBN

0855754664

OCLC

• 62276870
• SCSB-11213252

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library