Remote Freedoms - Politics, Personhood and Human Rights in Aboriginal Central Australia

Sarah E. Holcombe is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University.

List of contents

Introduction: Indigenous Rights as Human Rights in Central Australia

1. The Act of Translation: Emancipatory Potential and Apocryphal Revelations

2. Engendering Social and Cultural Rights

3. "Stop Whinging and Get on with It": The Shifting Contours of Gender Equality (and Equity)

4. "Women Go to the Clinic, and Men Go to Jail": The Gendered Indigenized Subject of Legal Rights

5. Therapy Culture and the Intentional Subject

6. Civil and Political Rights: Is There Space for an Aboriginal Politics?

7. International Human Rights Forums and (East Coast) Indigenous Activism

Conclusion

About the author

Sarah E. Holcombe is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah E Holcombe, Sarah E. Holcombe
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781503606470
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-0647-0
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Stanford Studies in Human Rights; Stanford Studies in Human Righ; Stanford Studies in Human Righ; Stanford Studies in Human Rights
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Archaeology / Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies