Sovereign subjects : indigenous sovereignty matters

Moreton-Robinson, Aileen. (Added Author).

Summary: "In Sovereign Subjects some of Indigenous Australia's emerging and well-known critical thinkers examine the implications of continuing to live in a state founded on invasion. They show how for Indigenous people, self-determination, welfare dependency, representation, cultural maintenance, history writing, reconciliation, land ownership and justice are all inextricably linked to the original act of dispossession and the ongoing loss of sovereignty."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 9781741147247
Physical Description: print
xvi, 240 p. ; 21 cm.
Publisher: Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Senior editor's foreword / Jon Stratton -- Introduction / Aileen Moreton-Robinson -- 1. Settled and unsettled spaces: Are we free to roam? / Irene Watson -- 2. Misconstruing Indigenous sovereignty: Maintaining the fabric of Australian law / Phillip Falk and Gary Martin -- 3. Indigenous sovereignty rights: International law and the protection of traditional ecological knowledge / Henrietta Marrie -- 4. Dancing with shadows: Erasing Aboriginal self and sovereignty / Philip Morrissey -- 5. The sovereign Aboriginal woman / Tracey Bunda -- 6. Writing off Indigenous sovereignty: The discourse of security and patriarchal white sovereignty / Aileen Moreton-Robinson -- 7. 'The invisible fire': Indigenous sovereignty, history and responsibility / Tony Birch -- 8. The Australian Labor Party and the Native Title Act / Gary Foley -- 9. That sovereign being: History matters / Wendy Brady -- 10. Indigenous sovereignty and the Australian state: Relations in a globalising era / Maggie Walter -- 11. Locating Indigenous sovereignty: Race and research in Indigenous health policy-making / Steve Larkin -- 12. Welfare dependency and mutual obligation: Negating Indigenous sovereignty / Darryl Cronin.