Indigenous peoples as subjects of international law

Watson, Irene (Irene Margaret), (editor.).

Summary: 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, 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780367180775 (paperback)
Physical Description: print
x, 226 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: London : Routledge, 2018.
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

General Note:	"A GlassHouse Book"
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Aboriginal nations, the Australian nation-state and indigenous international legal traditions -- Domination in relation to indigenous ("dominated") peoples in international law -- Natural law of nations -- Long before Munich -- First nations, indigenous peoples -- Law and politics of indigenous self-determination -- How governments manufacture consent and use it against indigenous peoples -- "Kill the Indian in the child".