Unfinished Constitutional Business?

Autorentext
Barbara Hocking is an associate professor at the School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology and an honorary research associate at the University of Tasmania's Riawunna Centre for Aboriginal Education.

Klappentext
Indigenous self-determination is the recognized right of all peoples to freely determine their political status, and pursue their economic, social and cultural development. Unfinished Constitutional Business? offers fresh insights into the ways communities can chart their own course and realize self-determination. Because the history of colonization is emotionally charged, the issue has been clouded by a rhetoric that has sometimes obstructed analysis. This book provides a comprehensive international exploration of self- determination. It argues that patterns are emerging that point to effective strategies that will allow communities to realize their goals. It surveys both common law and civil law systems. The United Nations working party's definition of Indigenous people has been influenced by these different experiences of colonization. Diverse jurisdictions are examined, from the Saami Parliaments of Scandinavia to the Maori seats in the New Zealand Parliament to the Canadian experi


Inhalt
Introduction: Can Indigenous Peoples' Experiences of Colonisation Reshape our Constitutional Language?; Indigenous Self-determination in the Commonwealth of Nations; Self-determination or 'Deep Colonising': Land Claims, Colonial Authority and Indigenous Representation; Consensus and Sovereignty: Rethinking Policing in the Light of Indigenous Self-determination; Patriarchal Whiteness, Self-determination and Indigenous Women: The Invisibility of Structural Privilege and the Visibility of Oppression; Trust, Truth and Fatuity; Why Norfolk Island But Not Aborigines?; Maori Legal Forum: Representation Issues and the Maori Land Court; Indigenous Political Representation: Identified Parliamentary Seats as a Form of Indigenous Self-determination; Indigenous State Relations in Aotearoa/New Zealand: A Contractual Approach to Self-determination; Kanaka Maoli: Right of Self-determination; The Search for a More Appropriate Form of Government in Solomon Islands; Indigenous Self-determination: Is Canada as Good as it Gets?; Indigeneity, Self-determination and Sovereignty; Indigenous Self-determination: Dispute Management; Sovereignty as a Trojan Horse: How the Convention on Biological Diversity Morphs Biopiracy into Biofraud; Commenced Constitutional Business? Reflections on the Contribution of the Saami Parliaments to Indigenous Self-determination; Conclusion. 'A Change of Sovereignty': During the Age of Empire; Index.

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