Abstract
One of the most provocative suggestions this book makes is that recovering the ‘hidden transcripts’ of the legal claims made by indigenous peoples against European acts of dispossession and subjugation has important implications for our understanding of indigenous peoples’ rights today. But how should we understand the normative upshot of this broader project of providing a richer and more accurate historical picture of indigenous peoples in the history of early modern imperialism? What does this history have to do, if anything, with the situation of contemporary indigenous peoples?
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Native Claims |
| Subtitle of host publication | Indigenous Law against Empire, 1500–1920 |
| Editors | Saliha Belmessous |
| Place of Publication | Oxford |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 248-258 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780199919291 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780199794850 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 10 Nov 2011 |
Keywords
- indigenous peoples rights
- normativity
- political theory
- self-determination
- freedom
- democracy
