Archive for the ‘Sovereignty’ Category
Audra Simpson, ‘Under The Sign Of Sovereignty: Certainty, Ambivalence, And Law In Native North America And Indigenous Australia’, Wicazo Sa Review 25, 2 (2010) In lieu of an abstract, here is a preview of the article. The notion of “sovereignty” is saturated with the certainty of jurisdictional and territorial authority over peoples and places. Yet […]
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P. G. McHugh, ‘Sovereignty in Australasia: Comparatively Different Histories’, Legal History 13 (2009) No abstract; snipping here: The historiography of the Neglected Tribal Sovereigns and Missed Opportunity seeks to put Australian history onto an axis of what I will be calling competitive autonomies. This, as I explain below, is a history of the sovereign-self narrated […]
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Shaunnagh Dorsett and Ian Hunter, ed., Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought: Transpositions of Empire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) A collection that focuses on the role of European law in colonial contexts and engages with recent treatments of this theme in known works written largely from within the framework of postcolonial studies, which implicitly discuss […]
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Julie Evans, ‘Where Lawlessness Is Law: The Settler-Colonial Frontier As a Legal Space of Violence ‘, Australian Feminist Law Journal 30 (2009), 3-22. Part of the introduction: In understanding international law as a key legitimating discourse of colonialism, this paper argues the need to view settler-colonial frontiers within a conceptual field that directs as much […]
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I have been following the recent Ngapuhi case in NZ, and have made a few comments on this blog about the matter here, here and here. I admit that I have been stabbing in the dark quite a bit, and unsurprisingly, I have made a few errors in my coverage. An experienced Maori lawyer, Joshua Hitchcock, […]
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From Waatea News: Taitokerau MP Hone Harawira, who chaired the Waitangi hui, says many people wanted to talk about the Declaration of Independence which preceded the Treaty of Waitangi, and about the constitutional issues being raised in the Northland claims now before the Waitangi Tribunal. “People talked in particular about the issue Ngapuhi is raising […]
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paradoxes of iroquois passports
From the pen of Felicia Fonseca, via Associated Press The team has maintained that traveling on anything other than an Iroquois-issued passport would be a strike against the players’ identity. But the British government wouldn’t budge in denying team members entry into England without U.S. or Canadian passports, keeping the Iroquois Nationals from competing at […]
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Jessica R. Cattelino, ‘The Double Bind of American Indian Need-based Sovereignty’, CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Vol. 25, Issue 2, pp. 235–262. ABSTRACT This essay examines a double bind that faces indigenous peoples in the Anglophone settler states, the double bind of need-based sovereignty. This double bind works as follows: indigenous sovereigns, such as American Indian tribal nations, […]
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Mark Hickford, ‘”Vague Native Rights to Land”: British Imperial Policy on Native Title and Custom in New Zealand, 1837-53’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 38, 2 (2010): 175 – 206. Abstract: What is often referred to as a common law doctrine of aboriginal or customary title neither underpinned imperial policies towards Maori property rights […]
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