Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

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Edited by Duncan Ivison, Paul Patton and Will Sanders

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published December 2000, 320 pages, paper

ISBN 0521779375

This book focuses on the problem of justice for indigenous peoples and the key questions this poses for political theory. Contributors include leading political theorists and indigenous scholars from Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Canada and the United States. They examine how political theory has contributed to the past subjugation and continuing disadvantage faced by indigenous peoples, while also seeking to identify ways that contemporary political thought can assist the "decolonization" of relations between indigenous and nonindigenous peoples.

Contributors: Duncan Ivison, Paul Patton, Will Sanders, J. G. A. Pocock, James Tully, Jeremy Webber, Roger Maaka, Augie Fleras, Audra Simpson, Manuhuia Barcham, Sonia Smallacombe, John Bern, Susan Dodds, William E. Connolly, Philip Pettit, Will Kymlicka, Iris Young.

Contents

1. Introduction; Duncan Ivison, Paul Patton, Will Sanders

PART I SOVEREIGNTY
2. Waitangi as Mystery of State: Consequences of the Ascription of Federative Capacity to the Maori--J. G. A. Peacock
3. The Struggles of Indigenous Peoples for and of Freedom--James Tully
4. Beyond Regret: Mabo's Implications for Australian Constitutionalism--Jeremy Webber
5. Engaging with Indigeneity: Tino Rangatiratanga in Aotearoa--Roger Maaka and Augie Fleras

PART II IDENTITY
6. Paths Towards a Mohawk Nation: Narratives of Citizenship and Nationhood in Kahnawake--Audra Simpson
7. (De)Constructing the Politics of Indigeneity--Manuhuia Barcham
8. On Display for its Aesthetic Beauty: How Western Institutions Fabricate Knowledge about Aboriginal Cultural Heritage--Sonia Smallacombe
9. On the Plurality of Interests: Aboriginal Self-government and Land Rights--John Bern and Susan Dodds

PART III DEMOCRACY
10. The Liberal Image of the Nation--William E. Connolly
11. Minority Claims Under Two Concepts of Democracy--Philip Pettit
12. American Multiculturalism and the 'Nations Within'--Will Kymlicka
13. Hybrid Democracy: Iroquois Federalism and the Postcolonial Project--Iris Young