Indigeneity

A Politics of Potential

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2706769
AutoresDominic O’sullivan (0000-0003-1696-1802, autor correspondente), Dominic O''Sullivan, Dominic O'Sullivan
Ano2017
Páginas216
Data de publicação2017-06-07
Open AccessSim
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoIndigeneity : a Politics of Potential (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraPolicy Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1332/policypress/9781447339427.001.0001
OpenAlexW2789558107
Open LibraryOL33607653M
ISBN9781447339427
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7

Indigeneity is a politics of potential. It allows indigenous peoples to think and pursue political aspirations beyond colonial victimhood. The politics of indigeneity is a theory of human agency. It is closely intertwined with discourses of reconciliation, self-determination and sovereignty. This book explores these discourses' significance for contemporary indigenous politics. It uses them to examine just terms of indigenous citizenship in three contemporary post-settler states. The book argues for differentiated liberal citizenship as a way of allowing indigenous peoples to share in the public sovereignty of the nation-state while, at the same time, sharing a meaningful political authority vested in indigenous institutions. It tests neo-colonial understandings of power, politics and justice. The book's comparative focus is unique. It compares the Australasian states with Fiji to show that historical constraints on political authority are not diminished with the withdrawal of the colonial power alone. Nor does the restoration of collective indigenous majority status, on its own, serve meaningful self-determination. Conversely, negative power relationships in Australia and New Zealand are not simply a function of minority status in majoritarian democracies. The comparison shows that the claims of indigeneity must hold equally well whatever the post-colonial indigenous population status

Agency (philosophy) · Citizenship · Colonialism · Economic Justice · Indigenous · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Power (physics) · Social science · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science) · Australian History and Society · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law · Aboriginal Australians · Australia · Fiji · Fijians · Indigenous peoples · Maori (New Zealand people) · New zealand · politics and government