Overview

Examining contested notions of indigeneity, and the positioning of the Indigenous subject before and beyond the law, this book focuses upon the animation of indigeneities within textual imaginaries, both literary and juridical. Engaging the philosophy of Jacques Derrida and Walter Benjamin, as well as other continental philosophy and critical legal theory, the book uniquely addresses the troubled juxtaposition of law and justice in the context of Indigenous legal claims and literary expressions, discourses of rights and recognition, postcolonialism and resistance in settler nation states, and the mutually constitutive relation between law and literature. Ultimately, the book suggests no less than a literary revolution, and the reassertion of Indigenous Law. To date, the oppressive specificity with which Indigenous peoples have been defined in international and domestic law has not been subject to the scrutiny undertaken in this book. As an interdisciplinary engagement with a variety of scholarly approaches, this book will appeal to a broad variety of legal and humanist scholars concerned with the intersections between Indigenous peoples and law, including those engaged in critical legal studies and legal philosophy, sociolegal studies, human rights and native title law.

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Author:   Kathleen Birrell
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.376kg
ISBN:  

9781138570375

ISBN 10:   1138570370
Pages:   258
Publication Date:   12 October 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

PART I: NARRATIVES Introduction The Question of Indigeneity (Mis)recognising Indigeneity The Legal Indigene Performing Indigeneity Unsettling Indigeneity The Literary Indigene A Strange Play Puncturing the Horizon Positioning To Speak of the Other Synopsis PART II: INDIGENEITY Introduction An Imperial Orientation Subjects of Empire An Impossible Object Return of the Native The Proper Indigene The Legal Archive An Originary Indigeneity An Essential Ghost Indigeneity as Other Desiring Indigeneity Before the Law PART III: LAW Introduction Juridical Violence The Madness of the Decision Justice as Law An Idea of Justice Legitimate Fictions The Last Uncharted Continent The Colonial Gaze Origin and Content Mythic Indigeneity The Ancient Tribe Law as Literature PART IV: LITERATURE Introduction A Fictive Institution The Postcolonial Project Mimetic Indigeneities Becoming Indigeneity (Re)imagining Indigeneity A Law of Alterity A Subversive Juridicity Recuperative Jurisprudences Decolonising Country Beyond the Law To Conclude

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Barrett has done an admirable and even heroic job, partly by interpolating some of Jackson's other writing, including unpublished materials and excerpts from an oral history, in which Jackson answered detailed questions about his life and his career. As a result, there is now a genuine book, one that contains some illuminating discussion of historical events. Most important, the book offers a fresh occasion for considering the personality and career of the greatest leader of the twentieth century, memorably described by Isaiah Berlin as the only statesman in the world upon whom 'no cloud rested.' --Cass Sunstein, New Republic Lively, revealing and suddenly relevant...Jackson's memoir sheds new light--not always flattering--on important events and on a president who too often appears only in silhouette: a felt fedora, an upward-tilting chin, a cigarette holder clenched in a grin. --Jeff Shesol, New York Times Book Review The publication of this slender but meaty book is that rare and happy event: a voice speaking to us from the past, a voice we had not expected to hear and that brings the past to life as not even the best of historians can do. --Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post An intimate and inspiring portrait of Roosevelt. He is seen as both charming and determined, while often elusive and enigmatic...Understanding Franklin Roosevelt better is a constant challenge for students of history: He has been scrutinized a great deal but not often with the benefit of such a vantage point. --Wall Street Journal A thoughtful, fresh, useful look at FDR. With powerful respect, even awe, for the man, Jackson nevertheless insisted on seeing him in a very human way--filled with greatness, yet flawed like all of us. It's a memoir that reflects the best of Jackson: candid, honest and tellingly expressed. --Stanley Kutler, Los Angeles Times A winning memoir--the story of Jackson's life in the White House; a powerful portrait of our 32nd president; and, most of all, a tribute to the humanity and the vision that stood at the heart of the Roosevelt administration...A unique historical find...It contains a trove of new information about Roosevelt's life. --Matthew Dallek, The Washington Monthly That Man is a great find--the last memoir of Franklin D. Roosevelt by someone who worked with him and knew him well. Next to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Robert H. Jackson was the best writer on the Supreme Court in the 20th century, and his portrait of 'that man in the White House' is filled with astute insights and warm recollections. It is a book no fan of FDR can do without. --Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the dominant political figure of the last century. Robert H. Jackson, Supreme Court Justice, was one of the essential figures in his life. Professor John Q. Barrett, a highly qualified authority on the subject, has now brought this relationship fully to light. I urge this volume for all who would know more of what could be the greatest days of Washington. I use the term cautiously: an indispensable book. --John Kenneth Galbraith These superbly eloquent chapters provide intimate glimpses of Roosevelt operating on many different levels. Through Jackson's informed lens, we are shown FDR as president, politician, lawyer, commander-in-chief, administrator, populist leader and companion. Jackson's account is not only of infinite value for the new light it sheds on 'that man, ' but also for unique glimpses of Harold Ickes, Tommy 'The Cork' Corcoran, Harry Hopkins and the other New Deal stalwarts. --Publishers Weekly Painstakingly, insightfully--even lovingly--assembled from notes and fragments found in a dusty closet belonging to Robert H. Jackson's recently deceased son, this remarkable and eminently readable volume--a newly available first-hand account of FDR as politician, lawyer, administrator, and commander in chief, written by an astute participant and brilliant observer who also happened to be the most piercingly eloquent writer ever to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court--will intrigue and inform anyone interested in the history of America's involvement in World War II or in the American presidency and the West Wing under FDR in an era a half century old that turns out to bear a surprising resemblance to our own. --Laurence H. Tribe, Ralph S. Tyler, Jr. Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School Intelligent, informed thoughts on FDR's presidency...The intimate look into the way decisions were made brings Roosevelt very much into human focus. --Kirkus Review A long lost gem has been unearthed after a half century. Supreme Court justice Robert Jackson's first hand portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt is as close as we are likely to get to deciphering the enigma that was FDR. Jackson, associate and friend, confidante and poker playing pal of the President, was perceptive enough to recognize the genius and honest enough to admit the flaws beneath his subject's seductive geniality. We are further indebted to the book's editor, John Q. Barrett, for rescuing this priceless memoir from an obscurity that would have left us poorer in our understanding of America's towering 20th Century statesman. --Joseph E. Persico, author of Roosevelt's Secret War For those with enough time and interest in the subject to warrant going through a study of much more than a thousand pages, [Conrad] Black's biography is worth reading. But most readers, as well as professional historians, will find Justice Jackson's 'insider's portrait' of Roosevelt of greater interest. --Robert S. McElvaine, Professor of History, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS, and author of The Great Depression: America, 1929-1941 Well worth reading...[T]he fascinating discovery, long after his death, of the reminiscences by Robert Jackson, FDR's Attorney General, a Supreme Court Justice, and maybe the closest friend of the president to have written about him. That Man is not only personally fascinating but of real historical interest on the subject of Lend-Lease. -- Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The Spectator

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Kathleen Birrell is based at Melbourne Law School, Australia.

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