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- Title
THE PLACE OF THE FIRST PEOPLES IN THE INTERNATIONAL SPHERE: A LOGICAL STARTING POINT FOR THE DEMAND FOR JUSTICE BY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES.
- Authors
MCMILLAN, MARK; RIGNEY, SOPHIE
- Abstract
The place of Indigenous peoples at the intersection of domestic and international arenas has shifted. While international law was traditionally used by states to oppress Indigenous peoples, today it can be used by Indigenous peoples to hold states to account and to assert specific demands for continued participation in law and politics at a domestic and international level. This shift is evidenced by the transformation of the concept of indigeneity. This was originally a term imposed upon Indigenous peoples by colonial powers, and was used to bind various groups of Indigenous peoples and to account for state action in relation to them. However, in recent years Indigenous peoples have had a significant stake in creating and clarifying the imposed concept and its contemporary use and meaning. This has transformed indigeneity from a tool of oppression to a tool of potentially greater freedom. For those Indigenous peoples searching for and demanding justice, this suggests a necessary starting point at the intersection of the domestic and the international.
- Subjects
INDIGENOUS ethnic identity; JUSTICE; HISTORY of international law; OPPRESSION -- Social aspects; POWER (Social sciences); SOCIOLOGY of international relations; UNITED Nations. General Assembly. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; JURISPRUDENCE -- History; HISTORY
- Publication
Melbourne University Law Review, 2016, Vol 39, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
0025-8938
- Publication type
Opinion