Land Is Our History - Indigeneity, Law, and the Settler State

Zusatztext One of the most important contributions of Miranda Johnson's The Land Is Our History: Indigeneity, Law, and the Settler State is to invigorate the value of 'comparative history.' ... Johnson's organized study and careful comparisons of similar historical phenomena in specific temporal and geographical spaces identifies significant historical contingencies, similarities, and differences. We discover what is distinctive about these particular series of related historical developments. The book is no less a documentation of the extraordinary achievements of those who struggled against intractable governments, courts, and crude contours of racism and misrecognition to push for redress and recognition of an ongoing dispossession. The book is a major achievement as a detailed study and also a source of reflection on earlier struggles. Informationen zum Autor Miranda Johnson is a lecturer in history at the University of Sydney. Klappentext The Land is Our History chronicles indigenous activism in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand in the late twentieth century and shows how, by taking their claims to court, indigenous peoples opened up a new political space for the negotiation of their rights. Zusammenfassung The Land is Our History chronicles indigenous activism in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand in the late twentieth century and shows how, by taking their claims to court, indigenous peoples opened up a new political space for the negotiation of their rights.

Product details

• Authors: Miranda Johnson, Miranda (University of Sydney) Johnson, Johnson Miranda
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.10.2016
• EAN: 9780190600020
• ISBN: 978-0-19-060002-0
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; North America, LAW / Constitutional, HISTORY / North America, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, HISTORY / Oceania, Indigenous Peoples, Relating to indigenous peoples, Australasian & Pacific history, History of the Americas, North America (USA and Canada), Australasian and Pacific history, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general, HISTORY / Indigenous / General, LAW / Indigenous Law & Legal Systems