Indigenous Rights in the Age of the UN Declaration

Author:   Elvira Pulitano (California Polytechnic State University)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781107417014


Pages:   370
Publication Date:   10 July 2014
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Author:   Elvira Pulitano (California Polytechnic State University)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.490kg
ISBN:  

9781107417014


ISBN 10:   1107417015
Pages:   370
Publication Date:   10 July 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Indigenous rights and international law: an introduction; 1. Indigenous self-determination, culture and land: a reassessment in light of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; 2. Treaties, peoplehood and self-determination: understanding the language of rights in the UN Declaration; 3. Talking up indigenous peoples' original intent in a space dominated by state interventions; 4. Australia's NT intervention and indigenous rights on language education and culture: an ethnocidal solution to aboriginal 'dysfunction'?; 5. Articulating indigenous statehood: Cherokee state formation and implications for the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; 6. 'The freedom to pass and repass': can the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples keep the US-Canadian border ten feet above our heads?; 7. Traditional responsibility and spiritual relatives: protection of indigenous rights to land and sacred places; 8. Seeking the corn mother: transnational indigenous community building and organizing, food sovereignty and native literary studies; 9. 'Use and control': issues of repatriation and redress in American Indian literature; 10. Contested ground: 'Äina, identity and nationhood in Hawaii; 11. Kānāwai, international law, and the discourse of indigenous justice: some reflections on the Peoples' International Tribunal in Hawaii; Afterword: implementing the Declaration.

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Elvira Pulitano is an associate professor in the ethnic studies department at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly). Her research and teaching interests include indigenous studies, African diaspora literatures, Caribbean studies, theories of race and ethnicity, migration, diaspora and human rights discourse.

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