Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Cambridge University Press, 10/12/2000
EAN 9780521770484, ISBN10: 0521770483

Hardcover, 336 pages, 23.8 x 15.6 x 2.6 cm
Language: English

This 2001 book focuses on the problem of justice for indigenous peoples and the ways in which this poses key questions for political theory: the nature of sovereignty, the grounds of national identity and the limits of democratic theory. It includes chapters by leading political theorists and indigenous scholars from Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Canada and the United States. One of the strengths of this book is the manner in which it shows how the different historical circumstances of colonization in these countries nevertheless raise common problems and questions for political theory. It examines ways in which political theory has contributed to the past subjugation and continuing disadvantage faced by indigenous peoples, while also seeking to identify resources in contemporary political thought that can assist the 'decolonisation' of relations between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples.

List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction Duncan Ivison, Paul Patton and Will Sanders
Part I. Sovereignty
2. Waitangi as mystery of state
consequences of the ascription of federative capacity to the Māori J. G. A. Pocock
3. The struggles of indigenous peoples for and of freedom James Tully
4. Beyond regret
Mabo's implications for Australian constitutionalism Jeremy Webber
5. Engaging with indigeneity
Tino Rangatiratanga in Aotearoa Roger Maaka and Augie Fleras
Part II. Identity
6. Paths towards a Mohawk nation
narratives of citizenship and nationhood in Kahnawake Audra Simpson
7. (De)Constructing the politics of indigeneity Manuhuia Barcham
8. On display for its aesthetic beauty
how western institutions fabricate knowledge about aboriginal cultural heritage Sonia Smallacombe
9. On the plurality of interests
aboriginal self-government and land rights John Bern and Susan Dodds
Part III. Democracy
10. The liberal image of the nation William E. Connolly
11. Minority claims under two conceptions of democracy Philip Pettit
12. American multiculturalism and the 'nations within' Will Kymlicka
13. Hybrid democracy
Iroquois federalism and the postcolonial project Iris Marion Young
Notes
Bibliography
Index.