The Indigenous Paradox : : Rights, Sovereignty, and Culture in the Americas /

The Indigenous Paradox : : Rights, Sovereignty, and Culture in the Americas / / Jonas Bens.

An investigation into how indigenous rights are conceived in legal language and doctrineIn the twenty-first century, it is politically and legally commonplace that indigenous communities go to court to assert their rights against the postcolonial nation-state in which they reside. But upon closer ex...

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Bens, Jonas,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 3 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • A Note on Terminology
  • Chapter 1. Indigeneity and the law
  • Chapter 2. The Invention of the sovereignty approach to Indigenous Rights
  • Chapter 3. "Domestic dependent nations" and Indigenous Identity
  • Chapter 4. How to Win with the sovereignty approach
  • Chapter 5. "Rooted legal Pluralism" and Its Culturalized Boundaries
  • Chapter 6. "De Facto Legal Pluralism" and the Problem of Not Being "Different Enough"
  • Chapter 7. The Invention of the Culture Approach to Indigenous Rights
  • Chapter 8. Expansions and Limits of the Culture Approach
  • Chapter 9. Sovereignty, Culture, and the Indigenous Paradox
  • Chapter 10. Indigeneity and the Politics of Recognition
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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